ayobuba - Overview

Hi, I'm Edward Buba 👋

SRE / Principle DevOps Engineer • Automation • Cloud Infrastructure • MLoPs

DevOps professional with 7+ years building scalable, secure cloud platforms across AWS & GCP.
Obsessed with reliability, observability, and GitOps-driven delivery.
I love turning chaos into clean, automated systems that run themselves.

Migrated from Datadog to Grafana (LGTM) — 60% cost reduction with zero visibility loss.
Designed a federated multi-tenant Prometheus topology; downtime reduced by 30%.
Built production-grade Terraform modules for Grafana alerting & incident workflows.
Implemented Grafana OnCall and improved MTTR across multiple teams.
Migrated Kafka workloads to Strimzi on GKE; standardized CI/CD with ArgoCD (GitOps).
Drove platforms to 99.99% uptime with performance and cost optimization baked in.

🧰 Currently at Shara Inc.

🧰 Previously at Credrails, Andela/Firstup, Ajocard, FHI 360, GIZ.

Kubernetes: EKS, GKE, multi-cluster, cost-efficient architectures
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/Tempo/Mimir, SLOs, alerting, OnCall
Platform: Terraform/Terragrunt, ArgoCD, Helm, GitHub Actions, CircleCI
Data/Streaming: Kafka (Strimzi), OpenTelemetry pipelines
Security/Compliance: PCI/SOC2-aligned IaC, least privilege, policy-as-code

LGTM-on-Kubernetes – Helm library + ArgoCD GitOps for Grafana LGTM on EKS/GKE.
Kafka-on-Strimzi – Production-ready Kafka with MirrorMaker2, monitoring & SLOs.
Grafana-Alerting-Terraform – Reusable modules for alerts, contact points & OnCall.

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