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alan leshan

@alanleshan

Senior DevOps engineer delivering production-grade AWS/Kubernetes platforms with SRE-grade reliability and cost savings.

Kenya

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to build and run secure, GitOps-driven AWS/Kubernetes platforms with measurable reliability. I want ownership of SRE practices (SLOs, MTTR, incident response), AIOps automation, and automation that meaningfully reduces toil.

I’m a results-driven DevOps Engineer and AIOps & SRE Specialist architecting production-grade AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure for 5+ enterprise platforms. I focus on “operating at the layer most engineers stop short of,” combining durable workflow execution, GitOps delivery, and security-first design.

I’ve reduced deployment cycles by 85% (3 days to 6 hours) and cut AWS spend 38% ($6.5K+/month) through right-sizing, spot strategy, and cost anomaly detection. With Prometheus/Grafana observability and runbook automation, I’ve driven an 85% MTTR improvement (65 min to 10 min) and maintained 99.92% uptime across multi-AZ architectures.

I bring deep distributed-systems and SRE experience—24/7 on-call P1/P2 incident management, blameless postmortems reducing incident frequency by 67% QoQ, and automation that saves 25+ hours weekly. I also build AI-assisted remediation workflows (Temporal + Claude API + pgvector) and enforce reliability using SLI/SLO, DORA metrics, and chaos engineering.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

DevOps Engineer

Current

Annance Kenya Limited

Aug 2025 - Present (10 months)

Architected multi-AZ AWS/EKS and Kubernetes infrastructure for 5+ enterprise clients, achieving 99.92% uptime and reducing manual intervention by 88% with ArgoCD GitOps across 8+ environments. Cut deployment cycles 85% (3 days to 6 hours), reduced AWS spend 38% ($6.5K+/month), improved MTTR 85% (65 min to 10 min), and handled 24/7 P1/P2 incidents with automated 80% of ops toil.

Kubernetes Terraform GitOps GitHub Actions Incident Management

Backend Software Engineer

Flex Trade Finance

Feb 2025 - Jul 2025 (5 months)

Built RESTful APIs and microservices using Python with Flask/Django, implementing JWT authentication, rate limiting, and Redis caching. Improved production bug rates 45% with pytest-based CI/CD and supported PostgreSQL/MongoDB schema design plus AWS infrastructure contributions (EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM).

Python Flask Django RESTful APIs JWT Redis PostgreSQL MongoDB AWS EC2 S3 Lambda IAM Pytest

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Moringa School

Full-Stack Software Engineering Certification, Full-Stack Software Engineering

2024 -

Completed a Full-Stack Software Engineering Certification covering React, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, SQL/NoSQL, RESTful API design, agile methodologies, TDD, and scalable architecture.

Moringa School

DevOps Engineering Certification, DevOps Engineering

2024 -

Completed a DevOps Engineering Certification covering AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform IaC, monitoring & observability, SRE principles, and incident management.

Africa International University

Bachelor of Science, Information Technology

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology with coursework in data structures and algorithms, database systems, software engineering, network security, cloud computing, and system design.