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Nairobi County, Kenya

• Successfully provisioned over 200 secure WordPress production instances on AWS, Azure and other cloud providers like DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr and Hetzner. Managed deployments in vanilla setup with Nginx and Apache or used control panels such as cPanel, Directadmin, HestiaCP, Cyberpanel, Ispmanager, Virtualmin and others. Also deployed Python, Django and NodeJS containers using docker . • Managed Linux Vms such as Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS, achieving zero to minimal downtime for over half a decade. Focused on improving server security and availability by setting up Fail2ban,CSF, UFW, Iptables, SSH security, Cloudflare , Crowdsec, 2FA, Nginx proxies and load balancers. • Reduced security incidents with a high success rate by training clients on computer security protocols and procedures. • Optimized cloud budgets by utilizing the most efficient server resource deployments and strategized for auto-scaling in the cloud. • Provided technical support to end users/teams, including successfully troubleshooting Linux server issues, WordPress issues, providing working solutions and implementing disaster recovery measures such as back up, scalability and high availability. • Installed and set-up of control panels such as VestaCP, HestiaCP, Virtualmin, CyberPanel, ISPConfig, DirectAdmin & cPanel on new Linux Vms. This enabled them to host multiple websites in one instance due to budget constraints. Put in place disaster recovery methods using automatic server backups on affordable cloud storage options such as Backblaze, S3, S3-Glacier and Dropbox. • Created virtual environments using Vmware, Hyper-V, Virtualbox, Vagrant and QEMU/KVM on Bare metal servers .

Deployed over 10 WordPress websites on AWS EC2, with Autoscaling groups and Amazon RDS.Troubleshot Linux server issues on Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS Web servers, email servers and DB servers.Designed and implemented affordable hosting solutions for WordPress, Django and NodeJS. Helped a lot of customers save over 20% in costs by migrating to 2nd tier cloud providers such as DigitalOcean, Vultr, Hetzner and so on.Improved workload security by setting up custom network VPCs, firewalls, and proxies. This reduced hosting costs by cutting off unnecessary bandwidth usage at the network level.Improved hosting solutions by introducing High availability and disaster recover strategies.

Nairobi County, Kenya

• Spearheaded day-to-day business operations by interacting with clients to understand and translate their requirements and foster positive client relationships. • Orchestrated and managed a team of web developers and designers, optimizing employee performance and achieving a project success rate of 100%. • Successfully built and launched 10 WordPress sites, 2 Laravel web apps, and engineered web hosting solutions for all the projects.

Nairobi County, Kenya

Enabled smooth operations for the staff by fixing computer hardware, networking and software issues. Also worked on user administration, enabling users to get back to their systems expeditiously.