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Lemayian Nakolah

@lemayiannakolah

DevOps engineer at Semata.ai (Kupa), advising on technology after delivering cloud infrastructure and CI/CD implementations.

Kenya

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At Semata.ai (Kupa), I work as a Technical Advisor. Previously, as DevOps Lead at Stanbic Bank Kenya, I led a DevOps implementation for the bank’s first Cloud Native project as part of its digital transformation.

I defined secure, scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure and created infrastructure-as-code scripts. I also set up CI/CD pipelines for development and test environments and defined release engineering for acceptance and production.

At Twiga Foods, I administered production infrastructure and applications on GCP, rolled out a VPN, and enabled Cloud Security Command Center. At Andela, I implemented CI/CD pipelines and wrote infrastructure-as-code scripts; I also built REST APIs for internal projects.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Technical Advisor

Current

Semata.ai (Kupa)

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 10 months)

Worked as Technical Advisor at Semata.ai (Kupa).

Senior DevOps Engineer

ZenBusiness

Feb 2022 - Sep 2025 (3 years 7 months)

Worked as Senior DevOps Engineer at ZenBusiness.

Lead Solutions Architect

Ghana International Bank

Jul 2021 - Feb 2022 (7 months)

Worked as Lead Solutions Architect at Ghana International Bank.

DevOps Professional

Bring Global

Jan 2021 - Feb 2022 (1 year 1 month)

Worked as DevOps Professional at Bring Global.

DevOps Lead

Stanbic Bank Kenya

Feb 2021 - Jul 2021 (5 months)

- Led a successful DevOps implementation for the 1st Cloud Native project in Stanbic Bank Kenya as part of their digital transformation.
- Defined architecture for cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable and highly available on AWS.
- Created and maintained infrastructure as code scripts to provision and configure AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Owned release engineering for dev/test environment

Software Engineer - SRE

Twiga Foods

Jun 2020 - Feb 2021 (8 months)

- Owned and administered production infrastructure and applications on GCP.
- Rolled out a VPN for secure access of work resources when working from home.
- Enabled and administered the GCP Cloud Security Command Center for cloud intrusion/threat detection.
- Kickstarted other security centric initiatives towards getting ISO27001 certification.
- Came up with application performance profiling and

DevOps Engineer

Andela

Mar 2018 - May 2020 (2 years 2 months)

- Led with enforcing DevOps culture within partner organisations/clients.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines for applications using Jenkins, CircleCI and Travis.
- Wrote and maintained Infrastructure as Code scripts.
- Administered cloud workloads and deployments, built deployment pipelines.
- Contributed in enforcing best practices for code and infrastructure security.
- Empowered software development

Software Engineer

Andela

Aug 2017 - May 2020 (2 years 9 months)

- Built REST APIs for internal projects.
- Mentored Junior Software Engineers through the Andela simulations and bootcamps projects.
- Participated in recruting Software Engineers by ensuring Andela Coding Challenges were standard for various levels.
Skills: Docker Git REST CICD Unit Testing Python NGINX Flask

DevOps Engineer

The Noodle Companies, LLC

Jan 2019 - Mar 2020 (1 year 2 months)

- Owned Release Engineering: Configuration, processes, CI/CD and application security.
- Administered infrastructure on AWS: VPCs, IAM, Lambdas, CW, S3, RDS, EC2...
- Built and maintained infrastructure as code scripts: Ansible, Terraform, Dockerfiles, Bash...
- Set up monitoring and application observability solutions: CloudWatch, Slack Integrations...
- Supported multiple development teams perfo