Zacharia Njue

IT specialist with more than 3 years of experience in providing IT solutions to startups. I am passionate about solving complex IT challenges and making technology work seamlessly. My experience cuts across network infrastructure, cloud-based & cloud hosted systems, security and working with teams globally.

DevOps Engineer

Automated deployment of AWS infrastructure using Terraform and installed Jenkins, Java and Python applications using Ansible

Integrated Jenkins CI server with Ansible to build WAR file artifacts and automatically deployed the WAR files to a web container

Automated deployment of a WordPress application through Ansible and installed the following components: PHP, Nginx Web Server, MySQL, and WordPress.

Automated CI pipeline (Jenkins) with build automation and webhook configuration in GitHub. I integrated the slack plugin within the pipeline for sending slack notifications.

Integrated Maven builds tool on Jenkins Server for automating builds and then performed test cases execution and deployed on Tomcat Apache.

Built a branching model to demonstrate the Git Feature Branch workflow of merging and rebasing.

I built a Docker Jenkins Pipeline that polled the availability of the application and its version in GitHub.

Thereafter, the Pipeline created a Docker image from the Dockerfile and host it on Docker Hub. Finally, the Pipeline pulled the Docker image from Docker Hub and run it as a container.

Caltech Postgraduate Programs

This postgraduate program helped me build expertise through hands-on projects in CI/CD - Jenkins, containerization - Dockers and Kubernetes, and using configuration management tools such as Terraform, Chef & Puppet, & Ansible.