Open to what's next
Daniel Sarpong
DevOps & Platform Engineer
I help engineering teams ship safely on AWS, paving the golden path from commit to production, with reliability, observability, and cost built in.
01about
I make infrastructure boring.
I'm a Platform Engineer at AmaliTech, where I lead the Platform Unit, the team building shared platforms and tooling for our engineering chapter. Day to day, that means AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and the monitoring that tells me when something's off before anyone else notices.
On my own time I tinker with Raspberry Pi and embedded hardware. Different scale, same habit: I want systems that are predictable, automated, and easy to reason about.
- 50%
- lower AWS spend across 3 environments, in one quarter
- 99.9%
- uptime for production services, with Prometheus + Grafana alerting
- 100%
- of platform access on SSO with MFA
02stack
The tooling I reach for.
Grouped by where it sits in the stack, from the cloud control plane down to the edge.
Cloud & AWS
- AWS
- EKS
- ECS
- EC2
- RDS
- S3
- CloudTrail
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- Ansible
CI/CD
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Argo CD
- GitHub Packages
- npm registry
Containers & Orchestration
- Docker
- Podman
- Kubernetes
- Helm
Observability
- Prometheus
- Thanos
- Loki
- Fluent Bit
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Kubecost
Platform services
- Apollo GraphQL
- API Gateway
- Kafka
- HashiCorp Vault
Languages
- Python
- C / C++
- JavaScript
- SQL
- Bash
Data
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
Tinkering
- Raspberry Pi
- Arduino
- STM32
03timeline
Where I've been.
Oct 2026 – Present
Platform Unit Lead
AmaliTech gGmbH · Ghana
- Leading a newly formed Platform Unit within the Platform Engineering Chapter.
- Own the shared platforms and tooling every team in the chapter builds on.
- Setting standards for CI/CD, observability and secrets so teams get a paved path instead of building their own.
Feb 2026 – Present
Platform Engineer
AmaliTech gGmbH · Ghana
- Moved Jenkins, Grafana and Vault access to Azure AD SSO with MFA and group-based permissions.
- Extended metrics retention with Thanos on S3 and tightened all platform access to internal networks only.
- Set up Prometheus and Grafana monitoring and alerting, holding 99.9% uptime for production services.
- Rightsized memory and CPU for all services on EKS using P95 and peak usage data.
Oct 2024 – Jan 2026
DevOps Engineer
AmaliTech gGmbH · Ghana
- Cut AWS spend 50% in one quarter by scheduling testing, staging and production environments around working hours. Case study
- Reduced deployment downtime 40% by automating CI/CD pipelines.
- Ran multibranch pipelines across ~33 service repositories.
- Upgraded Jenkins across a major LTS jump, patched plugins, and hardened build agents after a security finding.
Sep 2023 – Nov 2023
Networking Intern
DigiCAP GH · Ghana
- Engaged in workshops covering networking fundamentals and protocols.
- Configured routers, switches, and firewalls in controlled environments.
- Worked alongside experienced network engineers and received mentorship.
Aug 2021 – Oct 2021
Python Developer Intern
SideHustle NG (Terra) · Remote
- Executed tasks that built Python programming proficiency.
- Contributed to projects emphasizing remote collaboration and communication skills.
Education
BSc, Computer Science
University of Cape Coast
2021 — 2024 · Ghana
04work
Things I've built.
A few things I've shipped, across infrastructure, platforms, and hardware.
- DevOps
AWS Environment Scheduler
Put whole AWS environments, production included, on a working-hours schedule. Awake 85 of 168 hours a week, spend down 50%.
- AWS
- EventBridge
- Lambda
- Python
- DevOps
Event Planner Platform
A CI/CD pipeline with full monitoring and zero-downtime deploys. Cut deployment time by 75%.
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Ansible
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- DevOps
Task Management System
A serverless task system for field teams. Automated the workflows, held 99.9% uptime.
- AWS
- Serverless
- Python
- HTML
- RESTful API
- Full-Stack
UCC-CoDe E-Learning LMS
A learning platform for 10,000+ students, with per-user environments and proper auth.
- PHP
- Terraform
- Linux
- AWS
- PostgreSQL
- Embedded
Smart Home Automation Hub
Home automation that runs 10+ devices from one web interface. Built it because I wanted it in my own place.
- Raspberry Pi
- Python
- CSS
- Flask
05writing
Writing
Notes and case studies on infrastructure and platform work. Some hardware too, when I get the itch.
Even production can sleep
Our testing, staging and production environments ran around the clock for people who only worked set hours. Putting all three on a schedule cut our AWS spend in half within a quarter.
Monitoring vs Observability: How I Finally Understood the Difference
I thought Prometheus and Grafana were all I needed. Here is what changed my thinking.
06contact
Say hello.
I'm open to engineering roles and interesting collaborations. Email's the fastest way to reach me.