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Backend & DevOps Engineer

Building scalable systems and automating infrastructure to power the next generation of applications.

3+
Years Experience
20+
Projects Delivered
99.9%
Uptime Achieved
terminal — bash
➜~kubectl get pods --all-namespaces
production        api-server-7d4b8f9c6d             3/3     Running
production        database-5f7b8c9d6e               1/1     Running
➜~docker ps
a1b2c3d4e5f6   nginx:alpine                 Up 2 days     80:8080
➜~|

Technical Expertise

Mastering the technologies that power modern applications and infrastructure

TypeScript
TypeScript
JavaScript
JavaScript
Golang
Golang
C#
C#
Docker
Docker
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Terraform
Terraform
NestJS
NestJS

Additional Technologies

Express
Express
Ansible
Ansible
Helm
Helm
CI/CD
CI/CD
AWS
AWS
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
Redis
MongoDB
MongoDB
20+
Technologies Mastered
3+
Years Experience
20+
Projects Delivered

Latest Articles

Sharing insights and experiences from the world of backend development and DevOps engineering.

My Journey Building a Production-Grade Kubernetes Home Lab

How I built something that rivals production environments while learning Kubernetes at 2 AM.

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8/17/2025•7 min read

Building My Own Deployment Platform Was Supposed to Be Simple: A Modern Alternative to Vercel using Nestjs

How i build deployment system using microservice architecture driven by events

NestjsNat-serverNextjsn8nGraphqlHelm charts
8/14/2025•6 min read

Scaling the Heights: Building EKS Cluster with StatefulSets, Real Monitoring, and Logging

Deploying production-grade PostgreSQL, observability, and logging on AWS EKS that actually survives traffic spikes.

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8/20/2025•7 min read

Featured Projects

A showcase of recent work demonstrating expertise in backend development and DevOps practices.

Featured

Application deployment platform like vercel

Built a scalable platform using microservices architecture with NestJS, Nat-server, and Helm charts. Implemented event-driven communication and automated CI/CD pipelines.

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Featured

Kubernets HomeLab using K3S

Designed and implemented complete infrastructure for Kubernetes on my home server running arch linux

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Other Notable Projects

Production Grade EKS with monitoring and logging

Developed high-availability EKS cluster with grafana and prometheus for monitoring and elasticsearch fluentd, and kibana for logging.

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Professional Journey

A track record of delivering high-impact solutions and leading technical initiatives.

Backend Software Engineer

Omnivoltaic Energy Solutions

August 2024 - August 2025

Architected and implemented a comprehensive Single Sign-On (SSO) solution using Keycloak, integrating critical enterprise applications including Grafana, EMQX

Key Achievements

streamlined user authentication workflow.
65% reduction in access management overhead.
Role based access in the third party apps like grafana.

Software Engineer

Applantus

Sept 2023 - Mar 2024

Architected and developed an event management system using server-driven UI,providing flexibility, agility, and centralized control of the project,.

Key Achievements

Increasing developer productivity significantly.

Software Engineer Intern

Applantus

June 2023 - Sept 2023

Optimized a real-time chat application using WebSockets, improving the efficiency of real-time data exchange, resulting in a smooth user experience.

Key Achievements

reducing latency by 35%

Let's Build Something Great

Ready to discuss your next project? I'm always interested in new challenges and opportunities to create impactful solutions.

Email

muthurikennedy082@gmail.com

kennedy_muthuri@shipcodes.dev

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/muthuri

GitHub

github.com/muthuri-dev

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