Platform & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Building the cloud rails behindNigeria’s national stablecoin.

I design, automate, and operate multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) for regulated fintech and blockchain platforms — currently four production systems supporting multi-million-dollar daily transaction volume.

Portrait of Hammed Akinwale, Platforms & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Multi-Cloud · AWS · GCP · Azure
cNGN production owner
Terraform · Pulumi · GitOps
Open to remote & relocation
3+
Years in production infra
4
Regulated fintech platforms owned
3
Clouds — AWS, GCP, Azure
$M+
Daily transaction volume supported

What I do

Cloud platforms, engineered for the regulated edge.

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Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

Production-grade infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure with hub-and-spoke networking, Terraform and Pulumi as the source of truth.

  • AWS · GCP · Azure
  • Terraform / Pulumi at scale
  • Hub-and-spoke networking
  • AWS Global Accelerator
  • Kubernetes on EKS
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Security, Identity & Compliance

Hardened IAM, secrets management, and cross-cloud keyless authentication — cutting audit-preparation effort across regulated platforms.

  • GCP↔AWS Workload Identity Federation
  • IAM least-privilege
  • Secrets management
  • Compliance hardening
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CI/CD, GitOps & Observability

Automated, zero-downtime deployments with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and ArgoCD, backed by Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Jaeger.

  • GitHub Actions · GitLab CI
  • ArgoCD GitOps
  • Prometheus + Grafana + ELK
  • Jaeger tracing

Core Competencies

My technology stack

Cloud Platforms

AWS · GCP · Azure · multi-cloud, hub-and-spoke

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform · Pulumi · Ansible

Containers & Orchestration

Docker · Kubernetes (EKS)

CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Jenkins · ArgoCD

Security & Identity

IAM · Secrets Mgmt · RBAC · Workload Identity Federation

Observability

Prometheus · Grafana · ELK Stack · Jaeger

Distributed Systems

Kafka · Zookeeper · RabbitMQ · Redis

Edge & Global Routing

AWS Global Accelerator · Route 53 · CloudFront

Operating Systems

Linux · Windows · macOS

Reference Architecture

OLS Hub-and-Spoke on AWS, fronted by Global Accelerator.

A multi-account landing zone with a shared services hub VPC and dev, QA and prod spoke VPCs interconnected through Transit Gateway. AWS Global Accelerator sits at the edge, steering traffic to the healthiest regional endpoint over the AWS global network for predictable latency and fast failover.

Hub VPC

Shared services — DNS, egress inspection, IAM tooling, monitoring. Central Transit Gateway attachment.

Spoke VPCs (dev · qa · prod)

Isolated per-environment workloads on EKS, with route tables restricting east-west traffic and mandatory inspection through the hub.

AWS Global Accelerator

Anycast static IPs at 100+ edge locations, TCP/UDP health checks, and sub-minute failover between regional endpoint groups.

Production Platforms

Regulated fintech & blockchain, in production.

Four platforms I currently own and operate at Convexity, together supporting multi-million-dollar daily transaction volume.

OLS Hub-and-Spoke — Multi-Environment AWS Landing Zone

Designed a multi-account AWS landing zone with a shared services hub VPC and dev / QA / prod spoke VPCs interconnected via Transit Gateway, fronted by AWS Global Accelerator for low-latency, health-checked routing to regional workloads.

AWSTransit GatewayGlobal AcceleratorHub-and-SpokeTerraform

cNGN — Nigeria's National Stablecoin

Lead infrastructure engineer for cNGN, designing and operating secure, highly-available blockchain infrastructure for a national digital currency processing multi-million-dollar daily transaction volume.

BlockchainAWSGCPTerraformKubernetes

Scrybit Wallet — Licensed Multichain Custody

Designed and operated secure infrastructure for a licensed multichain digital asset custody and transaction-signing platform, meeting regulatory requirements for asset custody.

MultichainHSM / SigningIAM HardeningEKS

Mojaaexchange — Blockchain Asset Management

Architected infrastructure supporting portfolio management and on-chain settlement for a blockchain-based asset management platform.

Portfolio MgmtOn-chain SettlementTerraformObservability

CHATS — Humanitarian Aid Distribution

Designed and operated cloud infrastructure for a blockchain-based aid distribution system running across multiple African countries, supporting transparent, auditable aid delivery.

Multi-regionAuditabilityGitOpsPrometheus

Career & Impact

Professional experience

Apr 2024 – Present
Convexity

Platform & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Own and operate multi-cloud (AWS + GCP) production infrastructure for four regulated fintech and blockchain platforms — cNGN, Scrybit Wallet, Mojaaexchange, and CHATS — supporting multi-million-dollar daily transaction volume.

2024 – Present
Nexascale

Mentor — Cloud Enthusiasts

Mentor aspiring cloud and DevOps engineers on infrastructure automation, reviewing projects and guiding learners through real-world infrastructure challenges.

Aug 2023 – Mar 2024
Darey.io

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Deployed and managed containerized applications on AWS with Docker and Kubernetes, automated provisioning with Terraform, and built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions supporting hundreds of engineers in training.

My mission

Infrastructure should be invisible when it works, loud when something’s wrong.

I’m a Platform and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 3+ years designing, automating, and operating production-grade infrastructure for regulated fintech and blockchain platforms.

My work centres on Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes-based platforms, GitOps-driven CI/CD, and security & compliance hardening — turning complex requirements into simple, repeatable platforms teams can trust in production.

Based in Nigeria and open to remote & relocation.

Highlights

  • Lead infrastructure engineer for cNGN, Nigeria's national stablecoin
  • Own four regulated production platforms on AWS + GCP
  • Implemented cross-cloud keyless auth via GCP↔AWS Workload Identity Federation
  • Centralized observability with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Jaeger
  • Mentor with Nexascale for aspiring cloud & DevOps engineers

Let’s connect

Let’s build something resilient.

Open to platform & cloud infrastructure roles, consulting, and collaborations — remote or relocation.