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fadel@devops:~$ history | grep "career"
~/career/akieni/

Senior DevOps Engineer

Akieni · Brazzaville, RC
Nov 2025 – Present
--healthtech--govtech--aws--kubernetes
→ CAMU (Health Insurance): Sovereign on-premise infra — RKE2, PostgreSQL HA, MinIO, Vault, Cilium eBPF. Full migration from AWS EKS. RTO ≤ 2h, RPO ≤ 15min.
→ SFEC (Electronic Invoicing): Cloud-native API on AWS — EKS, GitOps (ArgoCD, Terraform), observability, VPN integration with government systems.
→ Cross-cutting: Multi-tenant K8s platform, PKI with Vault, standardized CI/CD for enterprise clients.
~/career/orange-c-te-d-ivoire/

DevOps Kubernetes Engineer

Orange Côte d'Ivoire · Abidjan, CI
Feb 2025 – Nov 2025
--telecom--kubernetes--on-premise
→ On-premise HA Kubernetes with Rancher/Robin
→ GitOps with ArgoCD, blue-green deployments
→ Enterprise Harbor registry with vuln scanning
→ Apache Airflow data orchestration platform
→ Zero-downtime deployment strategies
~/career/karity---co-holding/

DevOps Engineer

Karity & Co Holding · Abidjan, CI
Apr 2024 – Mar 2025
--fintech--aws--kubernetes
→ FinTech platform on AWS EKS for 100K+ users
→ GitLab CI/CD + ArgoCD GitOps pipelines
→ VPN + service mesh (mTLS), zero-trust networking
→ SonarQube + container scanning: 35% fewer prod defects
→ Prometheus/Grafana observability, SLO-based alerting
~/career/mobisoft/

DevOps Engineer

Mobisoft · Abidjan, CI
Jan 2022 – Apr 2024
--agritech--aws--cloud-adoption
→ Led cloud adoption for agro-industrial transformation
→ AWS EKS platform for 300K+ concurrent users
→ Jenkins + ArgoCD CI/CD: 50% fewer deployment errors
→ Centralized observability platform
~/career/mobisoft/

Software Engineer

Mobisoft · Abidjan, CI
Nov 2021 – Jan 2022
--python--react--backend
→ Python ETL pipelines (Excel → PostgreSQL)
→ Distributed log system (Node.js, RabbitMQ, MongoDB)
→ Real-time React.js dashboard for log analytics
fadel@devops:~$ find ~/projects -type d -maxdepth 1
~/projects/camu/

# National Health Insurance Platform

## Sovereign Cloud Migration

Designed the complete on-premise infrastructure for Congo-Brazzaville's national health insurance system. Migrated from AWS EKS to sovereign infrastructure.

STACK:
kubernetesrke2patronipostgresqlminiovaultciliumhaproxyargocdterraform
METRICS:
├── RTO ≤ 2 hours
├── RPO ≤ 15 minutes
├── 1000 claims/hour
└── Full data sovereignty
$ cat case-study.md →
~/projects/sfec/

# National Electronic Invoicing

## Cloud API Platform

Built the AWS cloud infrastructure for Congo's national electronic invoicing certification system, used by businesses nationwide.

STACK:
awseksargocdterraformprometheusgrafanaloki
METRICS:
├── Fully cloud-native on AWS
├── Automated GitOps deployments
├── SLI/SLO-based monitoring
└── Secure government VPN
$ cat case-study.md →
~/projects/fintech/

# FinTech Payment Platform

## Cloud-Native at Scale

Cloud-native platform for 100K+ users with PCI-ready security, GitOps pipeline, and proactive SLO-based monitoring.

STACK:
awseksgitlab-ciargocdsonarqubetrivyprometheus
METRICS:
├── 100,000+ users supported
├── 35% fewer production defects
├── Automated GitOps pipeline
└── PCI-ready security
$ cat case-study.md →
~/projects/telecom/

# Telecom Kubernetes Platform

## Enterprise On-Premise

Enterprise Kubernetes platform with Rancher, Harbor, Airflow data pipelines, and zero-downtime blue-green deployments at a major West African operator.

STACK:
kubernetesrancherharborairflowargocd
METRICS:
├── Enterprise HA Kubernetes
├── Zero-downtime deployments
├── Automated vuln scanning
└── Data pipeline orchestration
$ cat case-study.md →
$ cat ~/.config/skills.yml

Tech Stack

~/.config/skills.yml
cloud:
AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, ALB/NLB)
GCP
orchestration:
Kubernetes
Docker
RKE2
EKS
iac:
Terraform
Ansible
Packer
gitops_and_cicd:
ArgoCD
FluxCD
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Helm
monitoring:
Grafana
Prometheus
Loki
Tempo
OpenTelemetry
security:
HashiCorp Vault
SonarQube
Trivy
Harbor
networking:
Cilium (eBPF)
HAProxy
Keepalived
storage:
MinIO
Longhorn
databases:
PostgreSQL / Patroni
Redis
RabbitMQ
Kafka
languages:
Python
Bash
Go
$ gpg --list-keys fadel@devops

Certifications & Education

~/certifications
pub AWS-SAA/2048 2024 [SC]
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
uid Fadel Bidiga <fadel@devops>
pub CKA/2048 2024 [SC]
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
uid Fadel Bidiga <fadel@devops>
pub LFCS/2048 2024 [SC]
Linux Foundation Certified Systems Administrator
uid Fadel Bidiga <fadel@devops>
~/education/degree.txt
> Licence en Système Informatique et Génie Logiciel
> ESATIC — Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
> 2018 – 2021
~/languages
$ echo $LANG
> fr_FR.UTF-8 (Native)
> en_US.UTF-8 (Advanced)
$ tail -3 ~/blog/index.md

Recent Writing

~/blog/recent
2026-01-158min
--gitops
Why Your Startup Needs GitOps in 2026
2025-12-2012min
--security
K8s Security Checklist for BCEAO
2025-11-1015min
--case-study
Migrating a National Health System
$ cd ~/blog/
$ ./reach-out.sh

Get In Touch

~/contact/info
> Available channels:
whatsapp:
+225 07 78 89 27 04
📍
location:
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
~/contact/message
> Or send a message directly: