I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with 7+ years driving cloud-native delivery at scale across regulated environments. I have hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform/Terragrunt, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, and GitOps (ArgoCD/FluxCD). I’ve built secure, observable platforms that cut release lead time, sustain high availability, and optimize cloud spend through IaC, SRE practices, and DevSecOps controls. I’m a clear communicator who partners with product and security to ship faster without sacrificing reliability or compliance. I thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy enabling teams with templates, reusable tooling, and secure base images to accelerate feature delivery while maintaining audit-ready controls and strong governance.

Fatimat Atanda

I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with 7+ years driving cloud-native delivery at scale across regulated environments. I have hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform/Terragrunt, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, and GitOps (ArgoCD/FluxCD). I’ve built secure, observable platforms that cut release lead time, sustain high availability, and optimize cloud spend through IaC, SRE practices, and DevSecOps controls. I’m a clear communicator who partners with product and security to ship faster without sacrificing reliability or compliance. I thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy enabling teams with templates, reusable tooling, and secure base images to accelerate feature delivery while maintaining audit-ready controls and strong governance.

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I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with 7+ years driving cloud-native delivery at scale across regulated environments. I have hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform/Terragrunt, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, and GitOps (ArgoCD/FluxCD). I’ve built secure, observable platforms that cut release lead time, sustain high availability, and optimize cloud spend through IaC, SRE practices, and DevSecOps controls. I’m a clear communicator who partners with product and security to ship faster without sacrificing reliability or compliance.

I thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy enabling teams with templates, reusable tooling, and secure base images to accelerate feature delivery while maintaining audit-ready controls and strong governance.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

Work Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer at Netgear
May 1, 2022 - Present
Led a zero-downtime migration of 200+ workloads from AWS GovCloud East to West using blue/green deployments and automated rollback with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD. Built a Terraform/Terragrunt module library for networking, EKS, RDS, IAM, and logging with versioned interfaces and pre-commit validation, reducing environment spin-up time and drift. Implemented GitOps with an app-of-apps pattern, Helm, and Kustomize overlays to enable self-service deployments for 10+ squads and cut change lead time by 60%. Delivered layered CI/CD with static/dynamic testing and container scanning, reducing production vulnerabilities by 70%. Implemented multi-region DR with IaC-driven runbooks, achieving 30-minute RTO and 15-minute RPO. Deployed an end-to-end observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenSearch, CloudWatch) with SLO-based alerting and automated remediation, cutting MTTR by 50%. Collaborated with Finance on FinOps guardrails, reducing AWS spend by 35% without sacrificing perf
DevOps / Cloud Engineer at Stack IT Solutions
November 1, 2018 - May 1, 2022
Created a self-service Terraform catalog (VPC, EKS/ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, FSx ONTAP) with reusable modules to provision infra in minutes, reducing Ops intake by 70%. Built Jenkins and GitLab CI pipelines with quality gates, Trivy/Snyk scans, and progressive delivery (canary/blue-green) controlled via health checks, lowering prod incidents by 65% and deploy time by 75%. Established immutable infrastructure with Packer, integrating AMI lifecycles into IaC to shrink CVE exposure. Implemented drift detection + auto-remediation (Terraform plan checks, Config rules, Lambda responders) to maintain 100% alignment with baselines. Rolled out an EKS platform with IRSA, KMS-encrypted secrets, ServiceAccounts RBAC, Ingress/NLB, and namespace policies to improve multi-tenant security. Established SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, synthetic checks) and automated on-call runbooks, improving MTTD/MTTR. Set up centralized logging/metrics/tracing (ELK/OpenSearch, Prometheus, CloudWatch, X-Ray) and
AWS Cloud Engineer at Kapstack Inc
October 1, 2016 - November 1, 2018
Designed and automated VPC topologies with layered security for multi-AZ stacks. Scripting EC2/EBS workflows (partitioning, encryption) to standardize server builds and cut provisioning time by 80%. Authored Terraform for IAM lifecycle (users/roles/policies, permissions boundaries, key rotation) to maintain clean audit trails. Implemented ALB/NLB ingress with health-based routing, SSL termination, WAF integration, and autoscaling for stateless services. Built environment blueprints that reduced bring-up friction and maintained prod parity across non-prod environments.

Education

Master of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence at University of San Diego
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2026
Nanodegree - Machine Learning DevOps Engineer at Udacity
January 11, 2030 - January 30, 2026
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Western Governors University
January 11, 2030 - January 30, 2026

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - January 30, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
January 11, 2030 - January 30, 2026
CompTIA Security+
January 11, 2030 - January 30, 2026
CompTIA Network+
January 11, 2030 - January 30, 2026
CompTIA Cloud Admin Professional
January 11, 2030 - January 30, 2026
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
January 11, 2030 - January 30, 2026

Industry Experience

Computers & Electronics, Software & Internet, Professional Services