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Scaling a Phonebook Platform on Kubernetes
The Contact List Application started as a monolith and now runs as a set of containerised microservices orchestrated with Kubernetes. The migration focused on resilient rollouts, high availability, and observability, resulting in a platform that can withstand production traffic spikes without downtime.
Highlights
- Helm charts manage the Flask API, MySQL backend, Redis cache, and Nginx ingress.
- Progressive delivery implemented with Kubernetes readiness probes and Argo Rollouts.
- Grafana dashboards surface application latency, error budgets, and database health.
Stack
- Python Flask, MySQL, Redis
- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
- AWS EKS, Elastic Load Balancing, ExternalDNS
GitHub
Observability Stack for Live Sports Telemetry
Designed and deployed a full observability stack for low-latency sports data ingestion pipelines. The initiative standardised metrics, logging, and tracing across Kubernetes workloads, ensuring SRE and product teams have a consistent view of system health.
Highlights
- Prometheus Operator manages scrape configurations for more than 150 services.
- Loki and Tempo provide correlated logs and traces accessible via Grafana dashboards.
- Alertmanager integrates with PagerDuty to deliver actionable, noise-free alerts.
Stack
- Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Alertmanager
- Grafana, Helmfile, Kubernetes
- AWS Managed Prometheus, Kinesis Firehose sinks
GitHub
Terraforming a Multi-Account AWS Landing Zone
Built reusable Terraform blueprints that codify guardrails, networking, and account vending for enterprise AWS workloads. The landing zone enables self-service provisioning while enforcing compliance and cost controls from day one.
Highlights
- Automated Control Tower baseline with Terraform and custom SCP modules.
- Centralised VPC sharing model using AWS Transit Gateway and Route 53 Resolver.
- Integrated CI/CD pipeline performs policy-as-code checks before deployments.
Stack
- Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS Control Tower
- AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies
- GitHub Actions, tfsec, Checkov
GitHub
GitOps Delivery with Argo CD & GitHub Actions
Established a GitOps operating model that keeps infrastructure code, application manifests, and deployment automation in sync. Argo CD manages environment drift while GitHub Actions enforces policy checks before merges.
Highlights
- Automated promotion workflows between development, staging, and production namespaces.
- Reusable GitHub Actions composite actions standardise linting, security scans, and image signing.
- Argo CD ApplicationSets template multi-tenant environments from a single source of truth.
Stack
- Argo CD, ApplicationSets, Kustomize
- GitHub Actions, OPA, Cosign
- Amazon EKS, AWS Secrets Manager