Hi, I’m Eric
I’m a cloud and DevOps engineer based in Nyeri, Kenya (East African Time). I help small businesses and agencies run reliable infrastructure without overspending, and I’m building toward cloud roles that combine infrastructure with practical AI automation.
What I’m working on now
I’m migrating a client’s multi-site WordPress hosting environment from Windows to Linux. I’m documenting the baseline measurements, cost comparison, editor access model, and recovery testing as I go. [Link the case study here once the first post is published.]
How I work
I start with the business problem, not the tool. Before I build anything, I ask:
- What does the problem cost today?
- What would a failure cost?
- Is there a simpler or cheaper option that works?
- Does this need AI at all?
Every project I publish includes the constraints, the options I considered, the tradeoffs I made, and the measured results, including what went wrong.
Skills
Hands-on (AWS)
- Compute and containers: EC2, ECS, ECR, Lambda
- Security: KMS (encryption keys), IAM
- Networking: VPC, security groups, ALB, Route 53, CloudFront
- Storage and data: S3, RDS
- Observability: CloudWatch
Hands-on (tooling)
- Terraform and infrastructure as code
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions
- Linux and Bash scripting
- Hugo and Cloudflare (this site)
- Plesk and WordPress hosting
Working knowledge
- MySQL administration and WordPress database migrations
- Web server configuration (Apache / Nginx / IIS rewrite rules)
- Backup and restore planning (RTO / RPO)
- Cost estimation for cloud workloads
- Git branching and pull request workflows
Currently learning
- LLM APIs (for example Amazon Bedrock) and when AI is worth the cost
- RAG evaluation: building test question sets and measuring accuracy
- Cost-per-request modeling for AI workloads
- Monitoring and alerting for small production systems
Experience
- Freelance cloud and hosting work via Upwork:
Education and certifications
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Bachelor of Business Information Technology
- School: Dedan Kimathi University of Technology
- Year of Graduation: 2020
What I’m looking for
I’m open to cloud engineer, DevOps engineer, and junior platform engineer roles, remote or hybrid from Nairobi, Kenya (EAT, UTC+3), available immediately.
I’m most interested in teams where I can work on:
- Infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines
- Migrations, hosting reliability, backup and recovery
- Cost-aware cloud design, and AI automation where it pays off
I’m happy to start with a short call or a small paid trial task. The quickest way to see how I work is my resume and the case studies on this site. You can reach me at ericmosesngigi@gmail.com.