● Available for architecture engagements Lagos Delaware London

I build cloud platforms that don't wake you up at 3am.

Frank Egwu is a Senior DevOps Engineer and Enterprise Cloud Architect with 15+ years turning business requirements into secure, observable, cost-efficient infrastructure across GCP, AWS, Azure and beyond. Trusted by enterprises like Dolby Laboratories, regulated fintech platforms, and high-growth startups.

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Stage 01 · Plan

Architecture is a business decision before it's a technical one.

Most companies are not failing in the cloud because of technology. They are failing because of decisions: wrong architecture, inefficient setups, and zero visibility into cost and performance. That gap is where I work.

Over 15+ years I've moved from Linux and Solaris system administration in Lagos to architecting AI infrastructure for Dolby Laboratories, leading zero-downtime GCP migrations at Andela, and designing regulated fintech platforms in Europe. The thread through all of it: translating what the business needs into platforms that are secure, observable, and cheap to run.

Today I operate on three fronts. I take on enterprise architecture and DevOps contracts directly. I lead Techsense Developers, a Top Rated Plus consulting agency with AWS and Google Cloud accreditations. And I'm building NotJustEvent, an AI-powered event marketplace, as Co-founder and CEO.

I've also completed executive education at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, because infrastructure decisions worth millions deserve an architect who understands the balance sheet they land on.

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Top Rated Plus on UpworkAgency and individual track record in the top tier of the platform
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Clutch Premier recognitionVerified client reviews citing AI delivery, multi-cloud expertise and 20% cloud cost reductions
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Speaker, AI for Developing Countries ForumOn AI infrastructure and technology for emerging markets
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Featured by Tech Revolution AfricaProfiled alongside leading African tech founders on building and resilience
Stage 02 · Build

A track record measured in uptime, not adjectives.

From enterprise AI infrastructure to regulated fintech, every engagement below shipped with documentation, runbooks and numbers attached. Select any role to expand it.

  • Lead infrastructure architecture for a content intelligence platform across GCP and Scaleway, post-migration from AWS-centric infrastructure.
  • Designed scalable analytics foundations using Kafka, Dataproc, AlloyDB and Cloud Run/GKE patterns with environment separation and cost-conscious planning.
  • Integrated OpenTelemetry tracing, improving monitoring coverage and operational visibility by 70%.
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  • Designed a cost-efficient GCP microservices architecture with Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, AlloyDB and secure IAM for AI-driven financial automation.
  • Architected the Kafka, Redis and Langfuse stack powering real-time GenAI pipeline orchestration and traceability.
  • Automated delivery with Terraform and GitHub Actions: release time improved 55%, infrastructure cost reduced 30%.
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  • Led migration of legacy infrastructure to Kubernetes on GKE with full IaC automation and operational runbooks.
  • Improved GitLab CI/CD workflows, increasing deployment speed 50% while cutting manual release risk.
  • Implemented Google Secret Manager and KMS-based secret management, hardening compliance posture; containerized Kafka/Spark workloads.
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  • Architected and led AI infrastructure modernization across Azure, AWS and GCP, converting business needs into multi-region technical blueprints.
  • Designed cloud-native infrastructure with Terraform and Helm, aligned with governance, reliability and compliance expectations.
  • Implemented advanced observability with Datadog and Prometheus, reducing incident MTTR by 40%; defined SLIs/SLOs and operational guardrails for distributed teams.
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  • Directed AWS/GCP cloud modernization with Terraform, GitHub Actions and secure multi-tenant platform architecture.
  • Built IAM/WAF security baselines, CI/CD pipelines and Datadog observability standards that reduced cloud costs 30%.
  • Introduced trunk-based GitOps, blue-green releases and architecture governance while mentoring a 6-engineer team.
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  • Architected AWS/GCP infrastructure supporting a global technology community of 50,000+ members.
  • Reduced CI/CD release time 35% through pipeline optimization and IaC standardization.
  • Established reliability practices, integration standards and business-aligned SLA/SLO thinking.
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  • Led zero-downtime cloud migrations to GCP for enterprise clients, strengthening reliability and operational continuity.
  • Accelerated deployment cycles 15% through infrastructure automation and cloud-native patterns.
  • Mentored engineers on GCP, DevOps culture and secure cloud engineering practice.
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  • NVIT: engineered CI/CD pipelines boosting deployment efficiency 75%; automated monitoring cut downtime 25%; delivered AWS and DevOps training.
  • Techsense Developers: built SaaS products and CI/CD automation as a full-stack and cloud automation engineer, improving delivery consistency 40%.
  • NIIT / Prisma Cafe: administered Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows server environments with 99.9% uptime. The discipline started here.
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Stage 03 · Test

The stack, battle-tested in production.

Tools are interchangeable; judgment about when to use them is not. This is the toolkit I've shipped and operated with, organized the way I think about platforms.

GCPAWSAzureDigitalOceanScalewayOCICloud RunGKEEKSAKSECSVPC / VNetCDN & DNSIAMKMS / Key Vault / Secret Manager
DockerKubernetesHelmKustomizeArgoCDGitOpsTerraformAnsibleAWS CDKBashPythonPowerShellPolicy as codeAutoscaling & ingress
GitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDJenkinsAzure DevOpsArgoCDTrunk-based workflowsBlue-green releasesRollbacks & promotion gatesArtifact & version control
PrometheusGrafanaDatadogCloudWatchOpenTelemetrySLOs / SLIsLogs, metrics, tracesRunbooks & postmortemsIncident automation
KafkaPub/SubRedisPostgreSQLAlloyDBSQL ServerDataprocLangfuseOpenAI / Azure AIAzure AI Document IntelligenceAWS TextractAPI integration
IAM least privilegeWAFGuardDutyKMS & Key VaultSecret ManagerAudit loggingNetwork segmentationSOC2HIPAAGDPRISO 27001Server hardening
Stage 04 · Release

Shipped numbers, not slideware.

Every figure below is from a real engagement, with the platform still running.

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Incident MTTR reduced

Unified observability, alerting and automation at Dolby Laboratories.

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Faster releases

Terraform-backed CI/CD modernization at NeroBudget; 50% at Intemic.

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Infrastructure cost cut

Cloud-native design, right-sizing and managed services across AI and startup platforms.

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Observability coverage gained

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog and cloud-native telemetry patterns.

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Deployment efficiency boost

CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation engineered at NVIT.

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Uptime, operational settings

A standard set in early sysadmin years and held ever since.

Stage 05 · Deploy

Two companies, built and operated.

Architecture credibility is one thing. Carrying P&L responsibility for the platforms you design is another. I do both.

Founder & Managing Director

Techsense Developers

A global technology consulting and development company delivering cloud managed services, custom software, workforce augmentation and end-to-end IT consulting for enterprises and startups across Lagos, Delaware and London.

Top Rated Plus agency on Upwork AWS and Google Cloud accredited Clutch Premier recognition with verified client reviews Client outcomes include 20% cloud cost reductions and MVPs launched in 3 to 6 months Portfolio spans AI fintech, industrial AI, HR tech and automated accounting platforms
Co-founder & CEO

NotJustEvent

An AI-powered event marketplace connecting organizers with verified vendors and venues across Africa, with AI budget forecasting, vendor matchmaking, payments, ticketing and booking built in.

1,000+ vendors on the platform Backed by Google for Startups and Microsoft for Startups programs Supported by Blacks In Technology End-to-end architecture designed and operated by me: AI matching, organizer workflows, marketplace scale
Stage 06 · Operate

Certified across the platforms I architect.

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Professional Cloud DevOps EngineerGoogle Cloud Certified
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Associate Cloud EngineerGoogle Cloud Certified
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DevOps Engineer ExpertMicrosoft Certified
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Azure Developer AssociateMicrosoft Certified
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Microsoft Certified TrainerMicrosoft
OCI
Cloud Operations AssociateOracle Cloud Infrastructure
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Cyber Security Foundation ProfessionalCertiProf
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Multi-Cloud Network EngineerAviatrix
IBM
Cloud Native & Multicloud ApplicationsIBM
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re/Start Graduate & Cloud Practitioner FoundationAmazon Web Services

Education: Executive education, Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University (2023 to 2024) · B.Sc., University of Ilorin (2021) · Diploma in DevOps Engineering, Scholars Institute of Information Technology (2021)
Affiliations: International Association of Engineers · Project Management Institute (PMI) · Africa Cloud Community

Stage 07 · Monitor

Pipeline complete. Your move.

Have infrastructure that's costing too much, or a platform that needs an architect? Let's fix that.

I take on enterprise architecture engagements, DevOps modernization, AI infrastructure builds and fractional leadership roles. Direct, concise, and proof-backed from the first call.

status: operational · responding within 24h · Lagos / Delaware / London