👋 Hi, I'm Simon Mbugua (@smbugua) Senior Cloud & DevOps Architect | AI & Automation Engineer | Data Engineering Specialist | 13+ Years Experience
I design and scale cloud-native infrastructures across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Databricks. My passion: automation, cloud strategy, AI engineering, ETL pipelines, DevOps culture, developer productivity & technical leadership.
I also offer CTO-as-a-Service — helping businesses architect, scale, and automate their technology.
- 🔭 Building enterprise-grade AI automation workflows
- ⚙️ Architecting DevOps infrastructure at scale
- 🧠 Training ML models & building inference APIs
- 🎛️ Designing end-to-end ETL + Databricks pipelines
- 🌐 Frontend dashboards using React + Flask
- Architect scalable systems on AWS & GCP
- Multi-cloud design, security, and networking
- Cost optimization & production reliability engineering
- Terraform, Helm, Puppet, Ansible, Chef
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, ArgoCD
- GitOps workflows & zero-downtime deploys
- Production-grade clusters (GKE, EKS, Kubeadm)
- Operators, Helm charts, service mesh, autoscaling
- Multi-cluster architecture & fleet management
- Databricks Lakehouse design
- Spark ETL/ELT pipelines
- Batch + streaming data workflows
- Airflow orchestration & data automation
- TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn
- Building ML inference APIs
- MLOps pipelines & cloud deployment
- Admin dashboards
- Monitoring UIs
- Data visualization tools
- Technical leadership & strategy
- Engineering culture & hiring
- Cloud/AI modernization
- Architecture roadmaps
✔️ AWS Solutions Architect – Associate ✔️ GCP Professional Cloud Architect ✔️ Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) ✔️ Terraform Associate ✔️ RHCE – Red Hat Certified Engineer ✔️ Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) ✔️ Vault Certified
- 🚀 AI-powered customer engagement workflows
- 📦 Databricks ETL pipelines
- 🔁 DevOps automation tools
- 🌐 React-based dashboards
- ⚡ High-scale cloud-native architectures
- Rust systems programming
- AWS Lake Formation
- Serverless ETL with Step Functions
- Advanced MLOps patterns
FinTech • Cybersecurity • Logistics • Telecom • EdTech • Smart Cities Government • Media • E-commerce • IoT • Renewable Energy
I love working on:
- Cloud architecture
- DevOps modernization
- AI + automation
- Kubernetes engineering
- Databricks pipelines
- React dashboards
- CTO-as-a-Service
📫 Reach me: [email protected]