Blessing Phiri

At Footprint Africa Business Solutions, I design infrastructure solutions for enterprise clients, translating availability, security, regulatory, operational and cost requirements into practical architectures. For core banking workloads, I designed active-passive disaster recovery using Veeam CDP and DNS automation, cutting RPO from eight hours to minutes.

I also designed bare-metal OpenShift environments that hosted isolated clusters without requiring additional IP addresses. By hardening container platforms with CIS Benchmarks, RBAC, Red Hat ACS and Quay admission controls, I contributed to a 90% pass rate in a regulated financial audit.

At Advanced Communication Systems, I built an Internal Developer Platform on Backstage and Keycloak that cut provisioning from days to minutes and removed about 70 platform tickets a month. I also designed GitOps delivery with Argo CD, GitHub Actions and Terraform, and used capacity analysis to eliminate 15% of infrastructure waste.

Outside client work, I built managr.io, a LangGraph multi-agent platform for accounting workflows, and kostrack, an AI FinOps platform for tracking LLM spend. My accounting training and certifications in cloud, containers, AI and FinOps help me connect technical designs with cost and compliance needs.