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Michael Thompson
Looking for a jobIndependent Cloud & Data Infrastructure Consultant
DevOps and infrastructure engineer who migrated Ejara’s production platform from GCP to AWS and cut cloud costs by 49%.
South AfricaIndependent Cloud & Data Infrastructure Consultant at Versified Technology Ltd.
Experience
Independent Cloud & Data Infrastructure Consultant
Designed and operated a production Airbyte, Airflow and ClickHouse ELT/ETL pipeline supporting multi-country operations. Removed a major concurrency bottleneck by migrating and performance-tuning Moodle, Nginx, Redis and PostgreSQL, validated by Locust testing.
AirbyteAirflowClickhouseELTETLMoodleNginxRedisPostgreSQLLocustDockerGitHub ActionsCI CD
Lead DevOps Engineer
Designed and operated production infrastructure across AWS and GCP, including ECS and EKS, and led the migration of the production platform from GCP to AWS. Led the infrastructure team and standardized node, monitoring, and block-explorer infrastructure across approximately 18 blockchain networks.
AWSGCPAWS ECSAmazon EKSKubernetesDockerPythonBASHGitHub ActionsJenkinsCI CDMonitoringIncident ResponseOn Call
Lead Cloud Architect & Data Engineer
Led an AWS cost and architecture review across insurance, lottery, and music-streaming platforms, reducing monthly cloud expenditure by 49% through right-sizing and architecture simplification.
AWSCost OptimizationArchitecture ReviewsKubernetesVirtual Machines
Principal ICT Assistant
Led on-premises data-centre and Linux infrastructure operations for High-Performance Computing. Implemented central authentication, SSO, VPN, and third-party integrations using LDAP, OpenIDM, and Windows Server.
LinuxHPCLDAPSSOVPNIDMWindows ServerData CentresInfrastructure
Senior ICT Assistant (Systems Admin & Developer)
Specified, procured, networked, and administered a 400-core Rocks-based Linux HPC cluster and its scientific-computing applications. Developed Python automation for data-processing and scientific-computing workflows.
LinuxHPCRockPythonDebianCentOSPostgreSQLMySQLHPE ArubaNetworking
Education
North-West University
MSc in Chemistry with a focus on Computational Chemistry, completed in 2026.
MSc in Chemistry with a focus on Computational Chemistry, completed in 2026.
Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence
Postgraduate Diploma in Wireless and Mobile Computing, completed in 2013.
Postgraduate Diploma in Wireless and Mobile Computing, completed in 2013.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, completed in 2011.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, completed in 2011.