Professional Experience & Expertise
Over 2 years of experience architecting scalable cloud solutions across diverse industries.
Founder & Lead Cloud Architect
CAWI (Cloud Architecture With Ifekiiku) • Oct 2024 – Present
- Designed and implemented secure AWS solutions tailored to unique business challenges.
- Delivered cost-optimized infrastructures that balance scalability with efficiency.
- Produced educational content to help SMEs understand and leverage cloud technology.
Cloud Computing Intern
ALX Africa • May 2023 – Sep 2024
- Completed intensive training on cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and automation
- Developed capstone projects demonstrating high availability, security, and scalability on AWS
- Collaborated with global peers on real-world scenarios and group assignments
Director of Academic Affairs
NIMechE TPI - Student Forum • Oct 2023 – Sep 2024
- Supervised integration of educational technology into the curriculum
- Supported students, including counseling, tutoring, and academic advising
- Researched and implemented innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
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Featured Cloud Architecture Projects
Detailed case studies showcasing real-world cloud solutions and their business impact
Why It Mattered
Many businesses overspend on AWS due to poor visibility, misconfigured services, and lack of cost governance. This solution was built to empower companies with a smart, automated tool that identifies waste, optimizes cloud usage, and reduces monthly AWS bills—without compromising performance or scalability.
Challenges Solved
- • Unused or underutilized EC2 instances running 24/7
- • Overspending on on-demand pricing due to untracked workloads
- • Lack of centralized cost dashboards across AWS services
- • Manual cost reporting wasting engineering hours
- • No automated recommendations for ongoing savings
- • Difficulty spotting cost spikes or anomalies across regions/accounts
Tools & Technologies Used
Results Achieved
- • 32% average monthly AWS cost reduction within the first 60 days
- • Identified and eliminated over 25 idle EC2 instances across 3 environments
- • Implemented alerts for cost anomalies > 10%, allowing real-time response to billing spikes
- • Enabled FinOps team to reduce manual reporting time by 75%
Why It Mattered
Small businesses often struggle with delayed customer response times, missed inquiries, and the inability to offer 24/7 support due to limited resources. This project was created to help SMEs offer instant, AI-driven customer support on their websites—reducing response delays, improving client satisfaction, and saving valuable business hours.
Challenges Solved
- • Delayed responses leading to lost sales opportunities
- • Repetitive questions consuming business owners’ time
- • No after-hours support for clients across time zones
- • Inconsistent handling of customer issues or complaints
- • Lack of real-time analytics on customer interactions
- • High cost of hiring and training full-time support staff
Tools & Technologies Used
Results Achieved
- • Enabled 24/7 customer support for 3 SMEs within a week of launch
- • Reduced first-response time from 12 hours to under 2 minutes
- • Captured and redirected 100% of issue-based queries to email
- • Helped clients save over 15 hours/week on customer follow-ups
Why It Mattered
Enterprises often leave sensitive IAM roles with standing privileges, increasing the risk of misuse, insider threats, and compliance breaches. This solution eliminates persistent access by enabling secure, time-bound, approval-based access to privileged AWS resources—helping organizations embrace Zero Trust principles without disrupting productivity.
Challenges Solved
- • Excessive standing privileges for sensitive IAM roles
- • Manual approval processes lacking audit trails
- • Risk of forgotten elevated sessions beyond business need
- • Lack of TTL enforcement on temporary access grants
- • Limited visibility into who accessed what and when
- • No central workflow to request, approve, and revoke time-bound access
Tools & Technologies Used
Results Achieved
- • 100% removal of standing admin privileges across target AWS accounts
- • Implemented TTL-based access sessions with auto-revocation logic
- • Integrated approval flows with identity-aware triggers via API Gateway
- • Enabled audit-friendly logging and session traceability for every request
Why It Mattered
As a cloud architect and technical consultant, I needed a digital space to showcase my solutions, attract clients, share insights, and offer value to startups and SMEs. CAWI Cloud serves as my professional hub—featuring my portfolio, service offerings, chatbot demos, and content that reflects real-world expertise in building secure, cloud-native systems.
Challenges Solved
- • No unified platform to showcase my cloud expertise
- • Needed a way to present live projects and real implementations
- • Wanted a clean, branded presence for client interactions
- • Required easy integration with AI chatbot and backend services
- • Needed to differentiate between personal content and client work
Tools & Technologies Used
Results Achieved
- • Attracted direct inquiries from businesses seeking cloud solutions
- • Showcased multiple cloud architecture projects with live demos
- • Embedded AI chatbot for interactive engagement and lead capture
- • Established brand identity and technical credibility under "CAWI"
Why It Mattered
Many beginners struggle with connecting the dots between AWS services and real-world hosting. This project was created as an educational initiative to walk new learners through the process of launching a functional WordPress website using AWS. It demonstrates how cloud infrastructure can be used practically—even by those without a deep technical background.
Challenges Solved
- • Confusion around where to start with AWS hosting
- • Lack of simple, beginner-friendly AWS walkthroughs
- • Fear of CLI and infrastructure setup for WordPress
- • Misconception that AWS is only for large-scale businesses
- • Difficulty managing EC2, security groups, and public IPs
Tools & Technologies Used
Results Achieved
- • Deployed and configured a full WordPress site using EC2
- • Created step-by-step video content for AWS beginners
- • Made cloud hosting approachable for non-technical users
- • Received engagement from learners exploring AWS for the first time
Why It Mattered
Securely hosting data-intensive web applications is a common challenge for many growing businesses. This project, executed as part of my ALX Capstone, demonstrates how to move a traditional querying site to the cloud while implementing strong security, performance, and scalability measures on AWS.
Challenges Solved
- • Hosting MySQL securely with restricted public access
- • Ensuring admin access is tightly controlled
- • Eliminating single points of failure with high availability
- • Automating scaling to meet unpredictable traffic demands
- • Simplifying deployment using Launch Templates
Tools & Technologies Used
Results Achieved
- • Migrated a traditional web app to AWS with secure database hosting
- • Enabled high availability and fault tolerance with load balancer + autoscaling
- • Reduced manual admin tasks by using automation templates
- • Improved overall security posture for the admin and database access