About
DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer · Cameroon
Durrell Gemuh is a DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer based in Cameroon with 5+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and Kubernetes platforms across AWS and GCP. He designed and operates a multi-tenant hosting platform on Google Cloud Platform and Cloudflare serving 5,000+ sites. AWS Community Builder, KCNA-certified, DevOps trainer, and founder of NextGen Playground and WeFoundIt. Available for full-time roles, consulting, and team training, remote worldwide.
Based in Cameroon and working remote-first, I've delivered infrastructure for organisations across Cameroon, France, the USA, Canada, Germany, and Malta, helping teams cut deployment times, reduce cloud costs, and build platforms that scale under real production load. As an AWS Community Builder I contribute to the global cloud community, and through NextGen Playground and Talent Forge I train the next generation of African DevOps engineers into production-ready practitioners.
Experience
Dec 2024, Present
DevOps / Cloud Engineer
Private Client · USA
- • Automated dependency analysis with Jenkins + Dependency-Track.
- • Managed multiple Kubernetes environments via ArgoCD.
- • Deployed HashiCorp Vault on K8s; remediated AWS Security Hub findings.
Apr 2025, Present
DevOps Instructor & Mentor
Liora · France
- • Teaching Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Terraform to engineers.
Oct 2024, Present
Founder & Lead Engineer
NextGen Playground · Cameroon
- • Built a hands-on DevOps learning platform and mentorship program.
May 2023, Apr 2025
Senior DevOps Engineer
Blue Window Ltd (now Global Reach Media Ltd) · Malta
- • Designed and operated a multi-tenant hosting platform on Google Cloud Platform serving 5,000+ sites, and migrated 5,000+ sites onto it.
- • Fronted the platform with Cloudflare, CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, and TLS, for fast, secure global delivery.
- • Used a scale-to-zero model so cost tracked traffic, not site count; cut deployment time from two weeks to under five minutes and hosting cost by about 70%.
Feb 2024, Nov 2024
DevOps Engineer
LILLUP · San Francisco, USA
- • Built CI/CD from scratch and mentored junior engineers.
Nov 2021, Jun 2023
AWS DevOps Engineer
Data Service Group Inc · USA
- • Built a self-service tool that let 170+ developers provision VMs in about 60 seconds instead of 16+ minutes.
- • Built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Docker, AWS ECR) and provisioned AWS infrastructure with Terraform.
Oct 2019, Nov 2021
Site Reliability Engineer
Data Service Group Inc · USA
- • Cut incident detection from 30 minutes to under 2 with a full observability stack.
Recognition
AWS Community Builder (Cloud Operations Track), part of a global network of cloud practitioners recognised for technical contributions and knowledge sharing.
Certifications & Learning
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Linux Foundation), earned September 2026. Credential ID LF-3vvkreg50q.
HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003)
In progress, target Q3 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
In progress, target Q4 2026
AWS Solutions Architect, Associate (SAA-C03)
Planned, target Q1 2027
Speaking & Workshops
I speak and run hands-on workshops on DevOps, cloud, Kubernetes, AWS, and building in public, for students, engineers, and teams.
See talks & workshops →Community & Teaching
Selected member contributing technical articles, open-source projects, and community guidance on AWS best practices.
DevOps Instructor, Liora (France)
Teaching Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Terraform to working engineers through structured bootcamp programs.
127 engineers mentored through hands-on DevOps projects (110 graduated, 38 placed in roles), from first container to production Kubernetes. A community-driven learning platform and mentorship program.
80 published articles on DevOps, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and cloud engineering (31 also on dev.to), publishing since August 2025. Featured in the AWS 4x4 Cloud Operations community highlights (Builder Center) for LogSentry, detecting secrets leaked into application logs.
30+ public reference repositories spanning IaC, CI/CD, GitOps, observability, security, and platform engineering.
Find Me
Same handle everywhere, @durrello