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Elisha Theodore

@elishatheodore

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Cloud, DevOps & MLOps engineer shipping production Kubernetes and MLOps with enterprise-ready risk controls.

Zimbabwe

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What I'm looking for

I’m open to remote roles where I can ship production Kubernetes platforms and MLOps pipelines—owning GitOps + IaC, observability, and security—while leading cross-functional technology programmes that manage enterprise risk.

I’m a Platform engineer with 15+ years across financial risk, IT programme delivery, and cloud infrastructure. I ship production systems and lead cross-functional technology programmes with enterprise risk management at the core.

My deep expertise is Kubernetes and GitOps—Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, ArgoCD and Flux CD—backed by production MLOps work on Azure Kubernetes Service. I’ve built end-to-end MLOps pipelines with MLflow and Evidently AI, including FastAPI model serving and automated retraining triggered by drift thresholds.

I also deliver multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms using parameterised Helm charts and full IaC across Azure, AWS, and GCP. I bring strong observability and security practices—Prometheus/Grafana, Azure Monitor, ELK Stack, Entra ID, RBAC/Zero Trust, and Trivy scanning—so teams can deploy confidently and recover fast.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Cloud, DevOps & MLOps Engineer

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Independent Consultant

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 5 months)

Built an end-to-end MLOps pipeline for financial risk scoring, using MLflow experiment tracking and FastAPI model serving on AKS with Evidently AI drift detection and automated retraining at drift thresholds (95%+ accuracy quality gates). Delivered a multi-cluster Kubernetes platform via parameterized Helm charts and full GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux CD) with Trivy scanning, automated rollbacks, and Terraf