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Richard Rushatsi

DevOps & Platform Engineer

Building reliable infrastructure, automating everything that shouldn't be manual, and shipping software that stays up. Based in Africa, working globally.

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at a glance

6+
Years Experience

3
Cloud Platforms

10+
Products Shipped

∞
Pipelines Automated

about

I'm a DevOps & Platform Engineer with a background in Fullstack development and a degree in Information Security. I spend my days designing cloud infrastructure, taming Kubernetes clusters, and making deployment pipelines so smooth they're boring — which is exactly the goal.

My approach is simple: infrastructure should be code, deployments should be push-button, and security shouldn't be an afterthought. I've built and scaled systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure, integrating DevSecOps practices from day one.

Beyond shipping, I care deeply about knowledge sharing — mentoring teammates, documenting systems, and building engineering cultures where ops isn't a bottleneck. Proudly building from East Africa with a global mindset.

skills & tools

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Cloud Infrastructure

AWS GCP Azure EC2 S3 IAM

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CI/CD & Automation

CircleCI GitHub Actions Jenkins ArgoCD Terraform

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Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes Docker Helm Podman

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Security & Compliance

DevSecOps IAM Policies SAST VPN TLS/mTLS

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Fullstack Development

Node.js React Flutter PostgreSQL REST APIs

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Observability

Prometheus Grafana Loki Alertmanager

currently

Platform Engineer at Equity Bank Tanzania — building internal developer tooling and cloud infrastructure.
Exploring GitOps patterns with ArgoCD and Flux for declarative cluster management.
Mentoring junior engineers on Git, DevOps fundamentals, and clean API design.
Writing about platform engineering, cloud architecture, and software from Africa — check out the posts.