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 designs and operates a multi-tenant hosting platform on Google Cloud Run and Cloudflare serving 5,000+ sites. AWS Community Builder, DevOps trainer, and founder of NextGen Playground. 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
BlueWindow Ltd · Malta
- • Designed and operated a multi-tenant hosting platform on Google Cloud Run serving 5,000+ sites, load-tested to scale further.
- • Fronted the platform with Cloudflare, CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, and TLS, for fast, secure global delivery.
- • Used scale-to-zero serverless so cost tracked traffic, not site count; cut provisioning from days to minutes.
Feb 2024, Nov 2024
DevOps Engineer
LILLUP · San Francisco, USA
- • Built CI/CD from scratch and mentored junior engineers.
Jun 2020, May 2023
DevOps / SRE Engineer
Data Service Group Inc · USA
- • Cut incident detection from 30 minutes to under 2 with full observability stack.
- • Built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Docker, AWS ECR) and provisioned AWS infrastructure with Terraform.
Recognition
AWS Community Builder (Cloud Operations Track), part of a global network of cloud practitioners recognised for technical contributions and knowledge sharing.
Certifications & Learning
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.
100+ engineers mentored through hands-on DevOps projects, from first container to production Kubernetes. A community-driven learning platform and mentorship program.
90+ published articles on DevOps, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and cloud engineering. Weekly publishing cadence. 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