I build cloud platforms
that scale and stay up.

My work sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, and developer experience, shipping platforms that teams actually trust.

Based in
Houston, Texas
Working
Remote — US
Local Time
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Status
Open to roles

Featured Work

All experience →
2025 → Current

Lead Platform Engineer
Skyward · Remote US

Operate multi-tenant AWS EKS supporting 50+ microservices and 500+ pods with Karpenter autoscaling, Istio service mesh, and ArgoCD GitOps. Shipped 200+ Terraform resources and cut infra change time from 2 days to 30 minutes. Led on-call for a 6-person team; drove repeat-incident rate down 70%.

AWSEKSTerraformGoIstioArgoCDDatadog
2022 → 2025

Platform Engineer
Viasat · Remote US

Architected AWS EKS across 20 production clusters with CIS Benchmark controls — zero audit findings over 2 years. Automated multi-account AWS landing zone across 15 workload accounts. Cut MTTR from 45 min to 12 min via SLO-driven alerting.

AWSKubernetesTerraformHelmPrometheusCIS
2018 → 2022

DevOps Engineer
Payday · Remote US

Engineered CI/CD in GitHub Actions and Terraform — release lead time from 4 days to under 2 hours. Diagnosed 100+ production incidents across application, infra, and network layers. Cut operational toil 220+ engineer-hours per quarter.

AWSGitHub ActionsTerraformPythonNode.js
$180K
Annual cloud spend reduced through right-sizing + Spot migration
50+
Safe production deploys per day across 50 microservices
70%
Repeat-incident rate reduction over 3 quarters
24 mo
Sustained zero audit findings under SOC 2 Type II

The Stack

Shipped in production
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS · EKS · GCP · Azure · Terraform · CloudFormation · Helm · ArgoCD · Istio · Docker
CI/CD & Languages
GitHub Actions · Jenkins · GitLab CI · CircleCI · Go · Python · Bash · TypeScript · Node.js
Observability & Reliability
Datadog · Prometheus · Grafana · PagerDuty · SLO/SLI · Chaos Engineering · Runbooks
Security & Compliance
IAM · Secrets Manager · Trivy · Snyk · SOC 2 · HIPAA-adjacent · OPA · Policy-as-Code
Data & Platform
PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Databricks · Informatica · BigQuery · Spark
AI / Agent Tooling
Claude Code · MCP Servers · Agentic Workflows · Prompt Eval Sets · Human-in-Loop

Selected Projects

View GitHub →
2025

terraform-jenkins-eks ↗

Production-grade Terraform modules provisioning an EKS cluster with Jenkins CI/CD. Multi-env, policy-as-code checks, drift detection, autoscaling.

TerraformAWS EKSJenkins
2025

full_devops_project ↗

End-to-end DevOps reference: containerized app, CI/CD pipeline with test gates and image scanning, IaC-provisioned infrastructure.

CI/CDDockerIaC
2025

cicd-node-server ↗

Node.js backend wired to a complete GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline with Trivy scanning and canary deployments.

Node.jsGitHub ActionsTrivy
Soon

mcp-platform-ops —

MCP server exposing scoped platform ops (deploys, log queries, runbook execution) to Claude Code with per-caller credentials and audit logging.

PythonMCPClaude Code
Soon

k8s-cluster-operator —

Custom Kubernetes operator in Go automating cluster lifecycle, backup validation, and failover with declarative GitOps.

GoKubernetesHelm
Soon

aws-landing-zone-starter —

Opinionated Terraform landing-zone starter: Control Tower guardrails, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, IAM boundaries, drift detection.

TerraformControl TowerGitHub Actions
About

Eight years of shipping
infrastructure that just works.

I started in DevOps while finishing my CS degree part-time at the University of Houston, and I've been building and operating cloud platforms full-time since 2018. My work has spanned high-velocity startups, satellite communications, and federal healthcare — all with the same discipline: ship daily, measure everything, write it down, be the person someone wants on-call next to them.

Today I lead platform engineering for a multi-tenant AWS EKS platform, and I'm actively looking for Senior / Staff IC roles at modern SaaS companies.

Let's talk →
Chiemela Umeh
Chiemela Umeh Houston, TX · 2026
Contact

Let's build something
reliable, together.

I'm actively looking for Senior / Staff IC roles. Reach out directly: