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Kwabena Steve

@kwabenasteve

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I build secure cloud platforms, automate infrastructure, and reduce operational friction for engineering teams.

Ghana

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build secure, scalable cloud and developer platforms where I can automate infrastructure, improve reliability, reduce costs, and remove friction for engineering teams.

At Bigspark, I design cloud infrastructure for an OCPP-compliant EV charging platform on GCP, scaling it from approximately 300 to 2,000 connected nodes through Kubernetes-based production automation.

I build reusable Terraform patterns, GitHub Actions pipelines, and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki. I also engineered a custom mutual-TLS authentication layer using NGINX and Lua, hardened 50+ EC2 instances to NatWest security standards, and reduced AWS operational costs by 40% across 10 accounts.

Previously, I led infrastructure and IT operations at QLAC Financial Trust, automating provisioning across eight financial projects, reducing deployment time by 70%, and improving resilience through virtualisation, capacity planning, backup, and disaster recovery. I also build and operate Your CV Tailor, a WhatsApp-based career assistant powered by AWS services, Redis, n8n, and AI models.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Cloud DevOps Engineer

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Bigspark

Mar 2023 - Present (3 years 6 months)

Designed cloud infrastructure for an OCPP-compliant EV charging platform on GCP, enabling secure WebSocket communication. Scaled the environment from 300 to 2,000 connected nodes and reduced AWS operational costs by 40% across 10 accounts.