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Emmanuel Utibe Ernest

Cloud & DevOps engineer who also builds the AI systems that run on that infrastructure. Four years turning Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD into production platforms — now doing the same for LLM agents and ML pipelines.

4+years in production cloud
15projects shipped
5certifications
LagosNigeria · remote-friendly
plan.sh — terraform plan
$ terraform plan + cloud_infrastructure # AWS, Terraform, K8s projects = 5 to add + ai_ml_systems # LLM agents, MLOps projects = 10 to add ~ always_learning = true Plan: 15 to add, 1 to change, 0 to destroy.
about

Two disciplines, one engineer.

I started in cloud and DevOps — designing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, running Kubernetes clusters, and building the CI/CD pipelines that let teams ship without fear. Across fintech, payments, and edtech platforms, that meant improving deployment reliability, cutting operational overhead, and keeping production systems observable and stable.

More recently I've moved into AI engineering — building LLM-powered agents, automation pipelines, and ML systems that need the same rigor: reproducible deployments, monitoring, and infrastructure that scales. I like sitting at the point where the two meet, because that's usually where AI projects actually make it to production.

Based in Lagos, Nigeria. Open to remote and hybrid roles across cloud engineering, MLOps, and AI infrastructure.

// core_stack.env
CLOUDAWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, IAM, S3, VPC, Route53, ALB, WAF), Azure fundamentals
IACTerraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
CONTAINERSKubernetes (EKS), Docker
CI_CDGitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins
AI_MLPython, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, OpenAI API, MLflow, NLP
MONITORINGPrometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch
LANGUAGESPython, Java, Bash
DATABASESMySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
ai engineering pillars

Three pillars. One engineer.

Three distinct, deliberately-chosen capabilities — retrieval, multi-agent orchestration, and enterprise safety — each proven with a production-grade personal build.

module "ai_pillar" { count = 3 }
ai_pillar[0]
01

Hybrid RAG Pipeline

Proves I can manage advanced search infrastructure, embeddings, and data-matching logic.

Production-grade hybrid retrieval combining dense semantic search (ChromaDB) with sparse keyword retrieval (BM25), unified through cross-encoder reranking — fully containerized with Docker.

ChromaDBBM25Cross-Encoder RerankingDocker
Personal project View repo ↗
ai_pillar[1]
02

Agentic Crew

Proves I can write complex, multi-agent behavioral systems with automated human gateways.

A production-grade multi-agent system built with CrewAI and LangChain, featuring Human-In-The-Loop interception and automated web research compilation — fully containerized with Docker.

CrewAILangChainHITLDocker
Personal project View repo ↗
ai_pillar[2]
03

Guardrail Proxy

Proves I know how to safely scale, audit, monitor, and secure these systems for enterprise use.

A secure LLM proxy gateway and observability dashboard with automated PII sanitization, prompt-injection guardrails, cost logging, and real-time Streamlit visualization.

LLM SecurityPII SanitizationStreamlitObservability
Personal project View repo ↗
projects

Supporting resources.

Beyond the three pillars above: production cloud infrastructure and additional AI/ML systems from four years across fintech, payments, and AI-native teams.

resource "cloud_infra" "trihp_platform"

Multi-Environment AWS Platform (Payments)

Designed and provisioned AWS infrastructure across multiple environments with Terraform for a live payment and transaction platform, with Python automation for validation and deployment workflows.

TerraformAWSGitHub ActionsPython
Reduced incident recovery time via improved observability
resource "ai_ml_system" "job_matching_engine"

Intelligent Job-Matching Pipeline

Built and optimized ML-driven relevance scoring for a job-matching platform, alongside AI automation pipelines for the surrounding deployment workflow.

PythonML OptimizationAutomation
+35% relevance scoring · -50% deployment time
resource "cloud_infra" "karrabo_fintech"

Highly-Available Fintech Cloud Platform

Engineered secure, scalable AWS infrastructure for a fintech platform using reusable Terraform modules, with CI/CD pipelines and VPN-based secure connectivity for enterprise integrations.

TerraformAWSVPN NetworkingCI/CD
Reusable modules across environments
resource "ai_ml_system" "reasoning_agents"

LLM-Powered Reasoning Agents

Built agents capable of multi-step reasoning and task execution, then optimized the underlying models and workflows for reliability and lower manual intervention.

LLM AgentsLangChainPrompt Engineering
+25% engagement · -50% manual intervention
resource "cloud_infra" "semicolon_k8s"

Kubernetes Container Platform

Standardized deployments with Terraform-based IaC and managed containerized workloads on Kubernetes and Docker, with GitHub Actions handling the automation layer.

KubernetesDockerTerraform
Standardized deployment reliability
resource "ai_ml_system" "realtime_pipelines"

Real-Time AI Interaction Pipelines

Designed scalable AI pipelines for real-time interactions, working cross-functionally to move solutions from research into production.

PythonReal-time DataMLOps
+40% data processing efficiency
resource "cloud_infra" "selldome_autoscale"

Autoscaling AWS Environments

Designed scalable AWS environments with load balancing and autoscaling, automating provisioning with Terraform and Ansible and CI/CD with GitLab and Jenkins.

TerraformAnsibleJenkinsGitLab CI/CD
Improved release reliability
resource "ai_ml_system" "log_analysis_platform"

AI-Powered DevOps Log Analysis Platform

A Python platform for automated log analysis and failure detection, with intelligent root-cause workflows to support operations teams — containerized and deployed via CI/CD.

PythonDockerRoot-Cause Analysis
Improved incident investigation efficiency
resource "ai_ml_system" "model_deploy_cicd"

CI/CD for AI Model Deployment

Built CI/CD pipelines specifically for AI model deployment and implemented monitoring for AI services running on AWS, tuning infrastructure for cost and uptime.

AWSCI/CDMonitoring
-60% deploy time · -35% downtime · -20% cost
resource "ai_ml_system" "llm_training_eval"

LLM Training & Code Evaluation

Trained and evaluated large language models against best-practice benchmarks, reviewing and optimizing AI-generated code to improve model reliability.

LLM EvaluationCode ReviewModel Training
Improved model response quality
resource "ai_ml_system" "end_to_end_ai_pipeline"

End-to-End AI Pipeline

A single, cohesive pipeline unifying data handling, safety auditing, MLflow experiment tracking, automated evaluation gating, and API preparation.

MLflowSafety AuditingEval GatingPython
Personal project View repo ↗
resource "ai_ml_system" "video_podcast_agent"

Video Podcast Agent

An agentic backend that turns raw video/audio into publish-ready show notes — transcription, visual analysis, and AI-generated metadata, with automatic publishing to Notion and YouTube.

Agentic AITranscriptionNotion APIYouTube API
Personal project View repo ↗
+ more resources planned
Additional repos incoming — check back soon.
experience

State history.

AI & Automation Engineer01/2025 – 10/2025
Jobago.ai
Remote
  • Developed AI automation pipelines, cutting deployment time by 50% through better orchestration.
  • Optimized ML models behind an intelligent job-matching system, improving relevance scoring by 35%.
AI Engineer01/2025 – 08/2025
JAG Method
Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Built LLM-powered agents capable of reasoning and task execution, lifting user engagement by 25%.
  • Designed scalable real-time AI pipelines, improving data processing efficiency by 40%.
  • Partnered cross-functionally to bring AI solutions from research into production.
DevOps Engineer07/2025 – 03/2026
Trihp — Payment & Transaction Platform
Lagos, Nigeria
  • Designed AWS infrastructure with Terraform across multiple environments for business-critical services.
  • Automated provisioning and deployments through GitHub Actions and IaC practices.
  • Improved observability with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and CloudWatch, reducing recovery times.
AI Coding Trainer2025
Outlier AI
Remote
  • Trained and evaluated LLMs against best practices to improve response quality and efficiency.
  • Reviewed and optimized AI-generated code.
DevOps Engineer12/2023 – 04/2025
Karrabo — Fintech Platform
Lagos, Nigeria
  • Built highly-available cloud infrastructure with AWS and reusable Terraform modules.
  • Delivered CI/CD pipelines that improved release consistency and efficiency.
  • Supported enterprise networking, including VPN integration and secure connectivity.
Cloud & DevOps Engineer04/2024 – 11/2024
IBT Learning
Fort Worth, United States
  • Built CI/CD pipelines for AI model deployment, accelerating deployment by 60%.
  • Implemented monitoring for AI services, cutting downtime incidents by 35%.
  • Deployed real-time AI applications on AWS, reducing infrastructure costs by 20%.
AI Automation Specialist2024
Brand Deals Hub
Lagos, Nigeria
  • Designed AI-powered automation workflows translating business needs into technical solutions.
  • Documented systems and integrations for long-term maintainability.
DevOps Engineer10/2023 – 04/2025
Semicolon Africa
Lagos, Nigeria
  • Standardized cloud deployments with Terraform-based IaC.
  • Managed containerized workloads on Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Automated deployment workflows with GitHub Actions and Python tooling.
Software Engineer Intern07/2023 – 10/2023
Revo Energy
Lagos, Nigeria
  • Developed and maintained RESTful APIs in Java Spring Boot following MVC architecture.
  • Built and documented endpoints with proper status codes and error handling.
DevOps Engineer (Contract)02/2024 – 03/2025
Selldome Africa
Lagos, Nigeria
  • Implemented CI/CD automation with GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins.
  • Automated infrastructure deployment using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Designed scalable AWS environments with load balancing and autoscaling.
ML Data Analyst / Annotator05/2021 – 10/2021
Telus International AI Data Solutions
Remote
  • Used data analysis to evaluate and improve search engine algorithms, contributing to ML model optimization.
certifications

Verified & validated.

Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) — CNCF Introduction to FinOps — FinOps Foundation Google Cybersecurity: Foundations & Risk Management — Google Certified Network Security Practitioner (CNSP) Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 AI Foundations Associate
education

Learning, in progress.

University of the People
B.Sc. Computer Science (In View)
Colorado, U.S.A · 09/2024 – Present
IU International University of Applied Sciences
B.Sc. Computer Science (In View)
07/2024 – Present
contact.sh — terraform apply
$ terraform apply
+ email = "ernestemmanuelutibe@gmail.com"
+ phone  = "+234 802 447 4405"
+ location = "Lagos, Nigeria"
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