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I'm Pepukai Hove, a DevOps Engineer and Cloud Engineer based in Cape Town, South Africa. I design and operate AWS cloud platforms, build IaC with Terraform, and automate CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments and improve reliability. With 3+ years of experience, I’ve cut cloud costs, boosted availability, and strengthened security through automation. I enjoy solving complex infrastructure problems and collaborating with teams to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient systems.…I'm Pepukai Hove, a DevOps Engineer and Cloud Engineer based in Cape Town, South Africa. I design and operate AWS cloud platforms, build IaC with Terraform, and automate CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments and improve reliability. With 3+ years of experience, I’ve cut cloud costs, boosted availability, and strengthened security through automation. I enjoy solving complex infrastructure problems and collaborating with teams to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

Pepukai Hove

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I'm Pepukai Hove, a DevOps Engineer and Cloud Engineer based in Cape Town, South Africa. I design and operate AWS cloud platforms, build IaC with Terraform, and automate CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments and improve reliability. With 3+ years of experience, I’ve cut cloud costs, boosted availability, and strengthened security through automation. I enjoy solving complex infrastructure problems and collaborating with teams to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient systems.…I'm Pepukai Hove, a DevOps Engineer and Cloud Engineer based in Cape Town, South Africa. I design and operate AWS cloud platforms, build IaC with Terraform, and automate CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments and improve reliability. With 3+ years of experience, I’ve cut cloud costs, boosted availability, and strengthened security through automation. I enjoy solving complex infrastructure problems and collaborating with teams to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

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I’m Pepukai Hove, a DevOps Engineer and Cloud Engineer based in Cape Town, South Africa. I design and operate AWS cloud platforms, build IaC with Terraform, and automate CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments and improve reliability.

With 3+ years of experience, I’ve cut cloud costs, boosted availability, and strengthened security through automation. I enjoy solving complex infrastructure problems and collaborating with teams to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

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DevOps Engineer at Perfect IT Solutions

January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025

Cut environment provisioning time by 90% using Terraform (2h → <10 min). Enabled daily releases with GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. Improved system availability by ~90% using Docker and AWS ECS. Automated operations, saving 20+ engineering hours/month. Strengthened security with least-privilege IAM and automated scans.

Cloud Engineer at RichTech

July 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Built GitOps workflows with 100% auditable infrastructure changes. Deployed AWS EKS platforms handling 40% more traffic without downtime. Reduced AWS costs by 30% via automated EC2 scheduling. Cut critical vulnerabilities by 70% with CI security scanning.

Software Engineer Intern at CODSOFT

January 1, 2021 - June 30, 2021

Reduced manual processing by 40% through Python automation. Decreased runtime failures by 70% via validation and error handling.