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Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer | DevOps Specialist

Hi, I'mChristopher Owens

Building resilient, enterprise-grade cloud systems, global edge networks, and automated CI/CD pipelines designed for high availability and security.

My background and journey

About Me

Available for work

I am a Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer and DevOps Specialist dedicated to building highly available, secure, and resilient backend systems. I focus on automation, event-driven scaling, and streamlining cloud operations to deliver rock-solid enterprise performance.

My background centers on architecting infrastructure as code (IaC), building CI/CD deployment pipelines, and securing global edge networks. I believe in designing software architecture that fails gracefully and scales dynamically.

When I am not tuning cloud networks or writing serverless configurations, I research distributed database architectures, experiment with edge computing capabilities, and contribute to open-source systems tools.

Name

Christopher Owens

hello@christopherowens.tech

Location

Cape Town, South Africa / Hybrid/Remote

Availability

Open to select contracts & roles

Core Infrastructure & Development Technologies

My Skills

Next.js

90%

Vercel Edge Network

85%

Serverless Functions

90%

CI/CD Pipelines

95%

Event-Driven Webhooks

90%

API Integrations

95%

AWS Cloud Platform

85%

Docker Containers

80%

TypeScript & Node.js

85%

PostgreSQL

80%

Git & GitHub Actions

90%

Infrastructure as Code

80%

Production-grade cloud & infrastructure solutions

Flagship Case Studies

Resilient Event-Driven API Pipeline

A high-performance serverless automation engine featuring dynamic JSON parsing, automated parallel database failover routing, and multi-channel instant alerting via Slack and SMTP.

Serverless

API Pipeline

Event-Driven

SQL Failover

Slack/SMTP

JSON Parsing

Code Live Demo

Global Edge-Deployed Frontend Gateway

A high-availability frontend node deployed across a global CDN. Incorporates automated static pre-rendering and a hardened serverless API gateway validating client payloads without exposing secrets.

Next.js

Edge Network

CDN Caching

Serverless Gateway

API Validation

Secret Shield

Code Live Demo

My professional journey

Work Experience

Senior Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer

Tech Innovations Inc. | 2021 - Present

Lead the cloud infrastructure team in designing and operating highly available, scalable AWS systems. Implemented secure CI/CD pipelines, automated Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployment with Terraform, and engineered event-driven autoscaling mechanisms.

Site Reliability Engineer

Digital Solutions Co. | 2019 - 2021

Architected fault-tolerant serverless API gateways and edge delivery networks. Instrumented comprehensive monitoring and alerting pipelines (using Prometheus/Grafana and Slack API integration), resolving latencies and achieving 99.99% system uptime.

Systems Engineer

Creative Agency | 2017 - 2019

Designed and maintained robust backend API architectures, automated system backups, and database replication routines. Optimized relational database performance and managed Docker container deployments.

Cloud Infrastructure Intern

Startup Hub | 2016 - 2017

Assisted in containerizing legacy applications, configuring Linux server environments, and writing shell scripts to automate deployment tasks.

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