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Emmanuel Owusu-Addai

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DevOps Engineer with a strong focus on automation, monitoring, and building scalable cloud infrastructure. Based in Kumasi, Ghana. 🇬🇭

I'm results driven DevOps engineer who love collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions that drive business success. When I'm not working, you can find me exploring new tech trends, contributing to open-source projects, or blogging about DevOps best practices.

Projects

AWS Lift & Shift Migration Project

Migrated a Java-based web application to AWS using a lift-and-shift strategy. Deployed the application on EC2 instances running Tomcat, with an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) for high availability and Auto Scaling for dynamic scalability. Integrated MySQL for database management, RabbitMQ for asynchronous messaging, Memcached for caching, and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for SSL handling. Managed the domain and DNS via GoDaddy for seamless user access.

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Containerized Node js Web Application

A containerized Node.js web application orchestrated with Docker and Docker Compose, featuring a PostgreSQL database for persistent data storage.

PostgreSQL

Refactoring Java Web-Based Application using AWS PaaS

Migrated the relational database from a self-managed MySQL instance to Amazon RDS for MySQL, ensuring automated backups, monitoring, and high availability. Replaced RabbitMQ with Amazon SQS and SNS for fully managed, scalable asynchronous messaging. Integrated Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached to optimize performance and reduce database load.

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My Career

AWS reStart Program @ Amalitech

May, 2025 - Aug, 2025

During this exclusive programme I learned how to Implemented containerization using Docker, AWS ECS and AWS ECR. Designed a secure and highly availabile VPC using AWS VPC, Nat Gateway and Internet Gateway. Scheduled installation task using bash scripting and Cron job.

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Network Techinian @ NIS (UCC) - Cape Coast - Ghana

Oct, 2024 - Sep, 2025

Worked as a network techinian, troubleshooting and fixing network issues for the staffs and entire members of the university.

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Bachelor of Comp Sci. @ UCC - Ghana

Jan, 2020 - Aug, 2024

Graduated with a BSc. Computer Science degree, gaining better professionals positioned for jobs in computerised industries and problem solving abilities.

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