Rodger Mwanda

Managed AWS EKS, Lambda, and S3 operations, and supported engineering teams with production incident response and monitoring through CloudWatch and Grafana. Upgraded Amazon EKS clusters, built GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and owned JFrog Artifactory and Xray on EKS with Aurora PostgreSQL.

Built and managed AWS and Azure infrastructure with Terraform, operating production workloads across 6 Amazon EKS clusters and 6 Azure AKS clusters. Drove GitOps adoption using Argo CD and Flux CD, and implemented Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.

Provisioned and managed Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and 12 GKE clusters with Terraform. Automated deployments with Ansible and GitLab CI, used Argo CD for declarative Kubernetes delivery, and implemented Prometheus, Grafana, and EFK stack for observability.

Advised organisations and greenfield projects on ICT architecture across on-premises and cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure and GCP. Conducted systems audits and compliance assessments, and automated infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible/AWX, Python, and Bash.

Led production engineering, partnering with developers to deliver payment applications integrated with core banking and third-party vendors. Delivered and operated a voucher-based P2P Instant Money platform supporting transfers, electricity vouchers, and airtime services for about 5 million users.

Led a 10-person IT support team serving 250+ users across 8 sites. Deployed WAN and LAN infrastructure that raised network availability from about 45% to 90%.

Provided IT support across three production plants nationwide, covering end-user support, network administration, server deployments, and business application installations.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical, Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering.