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ekpenyong nsa

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Staff Cloud Reliability Engineer specializing in multi-cloud Kubernetes observability, service mesh, and OpenTelemetry.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead production SRE reliability and observability platforms—owning architecture decisions, shipping Go/Python code, and building autonomous automation that improves MTTR across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.

I’m a Staff Cloud Reliability Engineer with deep experience operating multi-cloud Kubernetes, service mesh, and observability platforms at production scale. I’m a strong contributor to high-availability systems and I build with OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation and autonomous AI agent systems for SRE.

At Viant Technology, I designed and shipped SIGINT, an AI- and AST-based auto-instrumentation system that programmatically injects OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs into Go services across the engineering organization. I also architected and led deployment of a 13-agent autonomous Kubernetes observability platform for alert triage, log/trace analysis, and remediation across 8–10 production EKS clusters.

I’ve built agentic operators and governed agent-to-agent routing (agentgateway, kagent Enterprise with Azure Entra ID SSO) and stood up a self-hosted production LLM with GPU scheduling on GKE to remove external API dependency. I enjoy owning architecture decisions end-to-end, shipping production code in Go and Python, and standardizing infrastructure with Terraform/Terragrunt and Crossplane Compositions.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Staff Cloud Reliability Engineer

Current

Viant Technology

Jan 2020 - Present (6 years 6 months)

Designed and shipped SIGINT to auto-instrument Go services with OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs, and led a 13-agent autonomous Kubernetes observability platform for alert triage and remediation across 8–10 production EKS clusters. Owned multi-tenant Grafana Tempo and resolved fleet-wide service-mesh and latency regressions, while also deploying internal LLM workloads on GKE and building go

OpenTelemetry Kubernetes Istio Envoy Grafana Tempo Terraform Crossplane Google ADK

DevOps Engineer

Branding Personality

Feb 2017 - Nov 2019 (2 years 9 months)

Migrated legacy applications to AWS and built CI/CD automation with Jenkins, scaling build capacity for faster deployments. Provisioned infrastructure and deployed containers using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, maintaining Helm charts and Rancher-based cluster monitoring.

Jenkins Terraform Ansible Kubernetes Helm Docker Git Nexus SonarQube Rancher

IT Support Specialist

Adamsmith Nigeria Limited

Feb 2014 - Oct 2016 (2 years 8 months)

Supported end users by troubleshooting reported issues, assisting with release-fix deployments, and coordinating bug resolution with the software development team. Patched and updated software to address security concerns and replaced malfunctioning hardware components.

end user support hardware troubleshooting Incident resolution