Shehu Awwal

About Me 🔗

I am a DevOps Engineer with a strong focus on AI, scalability, and cloud-native systems. I am passionate about building and scaling resilient infrastructures, with a career goal of becoming a Cloud & Systems Architect who can design secure, highly available, and future-ready platforms.

My expertise spans distributed systems, systems engineering, and infrastructure security, with hands-on experience in automation, observability, and cloud technologies. I enjoy solving complex challenges at the intersection of AI, DevOps, and security, helping organizations scale faster while staying secure and reliable.

Technical Focus 🔗

• AI & Scalability: MLOps, cloud-based AI workloads, scaling AI/ML pipelines with Kubernetes, distributed compute frameworks
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure, Proxmox, VMware ESXi
• Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• DevOps & Automation: Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins
• Security: Infrastructure hardening, TLS management with cert-manager, secrets management, vulnerability scanning (Trivy, Clair)
• Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack, OpenTelemetry
• Networking & Systems: Linux/Unix/BSD systems design, firewalls (iptables, nftables), load balancing, high availability

Academic Background 🔗

• Bachelor’s Degree – Computer Science
• Postgraduate Diploma – Computer Science
• Master’s Degree – Information & Communication Technology

Personal Life 🔗

I am happily married to Hadizah Sani, and we are blessed with two amazing boys — Ramadan and Rayyan.

Contact 🔗

• Email: [email protected]
• X / Twitter: @ShehuAwwal
• LinkedIn: ShehuAwwal
• Instagram: @shehuawwal