$ ./init --portfolio

Jesutofunmi (John)
Ajekola

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Senior cloud and infrastructure consultant with 7 years designing, automating, and securing systems — from 3,500-node enterprise networks to zero-trust AWS environments. I help teams ship resilient, cost-efficient, security-gated infrastructure. Based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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I operate at the intersection of systems administration, cloud engineering, DevOps, and security. Over seven years I've built and run production infrastructure end-to-end — from administering 3,500-node enterprise networks and Active Directory estates, to architecting AWS landing zones, automating delivery with Terraform and GitHub Actions, and orchestrating workloads on Kubernetes. I traced a live AWS account compromise through CloudTrail, contained it, and recovered the full spend from AWS. I cut monthly AWS spend by 52.4% through disciplined right-sizing and FinOps. I lead with a senior consultant's lens: clear trade-offs, measurable outcomes, and security gated into every layer — not bolted on after.

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Years across Sysadmin, Cloud & DevSecOps
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AWS Monthly Spend Reduced
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Nodes Administered at Scale

$ skills --list

[ Cloud Engineering ]
AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, WAF, Route53, ELB)Azure FundamentalsLanding ZonesVPC DesignHigh AvailabilityDisaster RecoveryCloud Migration
[ Infrastructure as Code ]
TerraformCloudFormationAnsibleModular IaCRemote StateDrift Detection
[ DevOps & CI/CD ]
GitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkinsBuild PipelinesRelease AutomationBlue/Green DeploysGitOpsArtifact Management
[ Containers & Orchestration ]
DockerKubernetesHelmMinikubeDocker ComposeEKS
[ DevSecOps & AppSec ]
GitleaksSemgrepSnykTrivySARIFSASTContainer ScanningPolicy as CodeShift-Left Security
[ Systems Administration ]
Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS/Kali)Windows ServerActive DirectoryGroup PolicyMicrosoft 365Patch ManagementBackup & RecoveryUser Provisioning
[ Networking ]
TCP/IPDNSDHCPVLANsRouting & SwitchingVPNWirelessFortinet FirewallJuniper (JNCIA)Network Monitoring
[ Observability & SRE ]
PrometheusGrafanaAlertmanagerCloudWatchLog AggregationSLOsIncident Response
[ Security & Compliance ]
Incident ResponseCloud ForensicsIAM HardeningZero TrustVulnerability AssessmentPenetration TestingCVE Triage
[ FinOps & Leadership ]
Cloud Cost OptimizationRight-SizingReserved Capacity PlanningProject LeadershipStakeholder ReportingVendor Management
[ Scripting & Automation ]
BashPythonPowerShellShellCheckCronSystemd

$ cat experience.log

Information Technology Analyst

May 2023 – Present

Comercio Partners Limited · Lagos · Hybrid

  • ▹Traced a live AWS account compromise via CloudTrail; shut down the attack, rotated credentials, and recovered full cost from AWS
  • ▹Cut monthly AWS spend by 52.4% through EC2 right-sizing, idle resource decommissioning, and storage policy rewrites
  • ▹Blocked a DoS attack at Fortinet firewall, updated AWS security group rules, activated WAF, and audited patch levels
  • ▹Ran authenticated vulnerability assessments on internal apps; tracked every finding through to remediation
  • ▹Designed full network and physical security setup for a new office (Fortinet firewall, access control, CCTV, wireless APs) — zero service disruption
  • ▹Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and GitLab CI for EC2 deployments
  • ▹Administered Office 365, Active Directory, and endpoint security for 60+ users. Maintained 99.9% uptime

Network Operations Center Engineer

Feb 2023 – May 2023

Tizeti Network Limited · Lagos

  • ▹Monitored and maintained a 3,000+ node ISP network
  • ▹Executed strategic firmware upgrades across network hardware
  • ▹Provided advanced remote support for complex multi-platform integration issues

Technical Support Engineer

Aug 2018 – Jan 2023

Tizeti Network Limited · Lagos

  • ▹Led a team of 6 to deploy 3,500 cloud-managed public Wi-Fi hotspots across two Nigerian states — on schedule
  • ▹Diagnosed and resolved hardware, software, power, and communications faults within SLA
  • ▹Installed structured cabling, wireless routers, and network access points across multiple sites

$ ls projects/

AWS Breach Remediation

2024

Led incident response on a live AWS account compromise from leaked developer credentials. Traced the attack via CloudTrail, contained it, rotated all credentials, hardened IAM, and secured a full cost write-off from AWS — preventing financial loss.

AWSCloudTrailIAMIncident ResponseForensics
Internal engagement

Office Infrastructure Migration

2024

Designed and executed full network and physical security setup for Comercio Partners' new office — Fortinet firewall, access control, attendance systems, CCTV, and wireless APs. Zero service disruption during cutover.

FortinetNetworkingCCTVAccess ControlWireless
Internal engagement

Application Security Testing

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Conducted authenticated light penetration testing on internal organizational applications. Identified vulnerabilities, submitted prioritized report to management, and tracked every finding through to remediation.

PentestingOWASPVulnerability AssessmentSAST
Internal engagement

Cloud Cost Optimization

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Cut monthly AWS spend by 52.4% through systematic EC2 right-sizing, decommissioning of idle resources, and rewriting storage lifecycle policies — without degrading performance or availability.

AWSFinOpsEC2S3Cost Optimization
Internal engagement

Wi-Fi Hotspot Deployment

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Directed rollout of 3,500 cloud-managed public Wi-Fi hotspots across two Nigerian states. Led a 6-engineer team and shipped on schedule, enhancing network scalability and performance.

WirelessCloud NetworkingProject Leadership
Internal engagement

Secure CI/CD Pipeline

.proj

7-stage security-gated GitHub Actions pipeline. Gitleaks → Semgrep → Snyk → Build → Trivy → Deploy. Reduced HIGH/CRITICAL findings to zero before first production deployment.

GitHub ActionsGitleaksSemgrepSnykTrivySARIF
View on GitHub →

Kubernetes Monitoring Stack

.proj

Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager on Kubernetes via Helm. Custom PrometheusRule alerts routing to Slack for HighMemoryUsage, PodRestarting, and DeploymentReplicasMismatch.

PrometheusGrafanaKubernetesHelmAlertmanager
View on GitHub →

Kubernetes Three-Tier Deployment

.proj

PostgreSQL StatefulSet, Flask with HPA (2→5 replicas at 70% CPU), Nginx NodePort. ConfigMap/Secret management with readiness and liveness probes.

KubernetesFlaskPostgreSQLHPADocker
View on GitHub →

Terraform AWS Infrastructure

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15 AWS resources as code — VPC, subnets, EC2, RDS in private subnet, least-privilege security groups. Used sensitive=true for secrets and count for subnet replication.

TerraformAWSIaCVPCRDSEC2
View on GitHub →

Dockerized Three-Tier App

.proj

Flask + Gunicorn + Nginx + PostgreSQL on Docker Compose. GitHub Actions CI/CD: test → build → push to Docker Hub (latest + SHA tags) → deploy to EC2.

DockerFlaskNginxGitHub ActionsCI/CD
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Bash Automation Toolkit

.proj

Production-grade shell scripts — disk monitoring, user management, log parsing, backup rotation. Shared logging library, strict mode (set -euo pipefail), ShellCheck CI — green badge on all commits.

BashShellCheckAutomationLinuxGitHub Actions
View on GitHub →

$ cat certifications.txt

# note: entries marked Course Completion are training programs I finished — not proctored certification exams. Listed transparently for clarity.

Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

Google · 2026

✓ Completed

Google IT Support Professional Certificate

Google · 2025

✓ Completed

Juniper JNCIA-Junos

Juniper Networks · 2022

✓ Completed

AWS Solutions Architect Associate — Course Completion

Stephane Maarek (Udemy) · 2025

📘 Course Completion (not certified exam)

Microsoft AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals — Course Completion

Udemy · 2025

📘 Course Completion (not certified exam)

Microsoft 365 Administration

LinkedIn Learning · 2025

✓ Completed

$ ./contact.sh

Open to DevSecOps, Cloud Security, and Infrastructure roles. Let's talk.