nick@portfolio ~ % whoami

$ cat profile.json

{
  "name": "Nicholas Osafo Adamu",
  "role": "Solutions Architect",
  "location": "Tema, Ghana",
  "focus": [
    "cloud architecture",
    "platform engineering",
    "fintech"
  ]
}

$ _

Solutions Architect · Platform Engineer

Nicholas Osafo Adamu

Architecting cloud-native platforms, banking infrastructure, and the systems that power fintech at global scale.

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8+Years Experience
5Industries
GlobalRemote & On-site

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Experience

Platform Architect

Lyte Digital

San Francisco, CA (Remote)
  • Own architecture and technical roadmap for Lyte's banking-as-a-service platform across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa
  • Design scalable, multi-tenant cloud infrastructure for KYC/KYB, AML, fraud detection, and payments
  • Define API and integration patterns for omni-channel delivery across chat, voice, web, app, and USSD
  • Establish CI/CD, observability, and DevSecOps standards for rapid, reliable feature delivery
  • Drive security and regulatory compliance — encryption, access management, data protection
  • Mentor engineering teams and champion GitOps and cloud-native best practices
BaaSMulti-tenantDevSecOpsGitOpsKYC/AML

DevOps Engineer

ABSA Bank Ghana

Accra, Ghana
  • Architected highly available CI/CD pipelines for zero-downtime deployments
  • Implemented monitoring, logging, and observability for proactive incident response
  • Worked with OpenShift, EKS, and ArgoCD for container orchestration
  • Embedded DevSecOps through policy-as-code and secure secrets management
  • Drove digital transformation by integrating legacy systems and modernizing architecture
OpenShiftEKSArgoCDDevSecOpsCI/CD

Lead Cloud Engineer

The Marygold Companies

Denver, Colorado
  • Designed and implemented cloud infrastructure on AWS
  • Deployed and managed EKS clusters across multiple regions and environments
  • Managed CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps platforms
  • Built internal developer tools with ArgoCD, Vault, Kafka, and Golang
  • Mentored DevOps engineers on cloud implementation
AWSEKSVaultKafkaGoIaC

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Stanbic Bank Ghana

Accra, Ghana
  • Deployed monitoring with InfluxDB, Grafana, and Splunk
  • Built a Golang bandwidth monitoring tool correlating uptime with ISP SLAs
  • Wrote Docker images, Kubernetes manifests, and Helm charts
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure DevOps — 80% faster to production
  • Managed API integrations with IBM API Connect
KubernetesHelmGrafanaGoJenkins

Software Engineer

Global PayEX

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  • Developed scheme management applications to automate client schemes and discount programs
  • Worked with rules engines for highly complex client requirements
  • Built microservice applications that have processed $50B+ in transactions
  • Processed high-volume client data with ETL tools
  • Built SSO integration into client applications
MicroservicesETLSSORules EngineFintech

Software Engineer

GXT Labs

Kumasi, Ghana
  • Designed and implemented IoT gateways
  • Built monitoring dashboards for infrastructure and IoT gateways
  • Designed a platform for running applications on ARM-based dev boards
  • Built an online platform for IoT deployment
IoTEmbeddedARMMonitoring

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Skills & Technologies

PythonGoJavaKubernetesDockerCI/CDGitOpsDevOpsKafkaMicroservicesAWSSQLLinuxMachine LearningComputer VisionSpring BootML OpsKubeflowVert.xApache NiFiMediaPipe
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Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, EKS, OpenShift, GitOps, IaC

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Platform Engineering

CI/CD, ArgoCD, Vault, Kafka, Microservices, DevSecOps

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Languages & Frameworks

Go, Python, Java, Spring Boot, Vert.x, Apache NiFi

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AI & Data

Machine Learning, Computer Vision, MediaPipe, Kubeflow, ML Ops

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Projects & Community

Sign Language Translator

Cross-platform hand sign gesture recognition app built with MediaPipe. Featured in the awesome-mediapipe repository.

MediaPipeComputer VisionOpen Source

Education

BSc Electrical/Electronics Engineering

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Oct 2016 – May 2020Kumasi, Ghana

Volunteer & Leadership

Project Lead

PyData Ghana

Kumasi, Ghana

Built a sign language-to-speech app as part of a community open-source project.

Tutor

Ghana Engineering Students Association — KNUST

Kumasi, Ghana

Introduced College of Engineering students to electronics and embedded systems concepts.

Project Maintainer

Awesome Mediapipe (Google)

Maintaining curated resources for the MediaPipe ecosystem.

Project Tech Lead

Artificial Intelligence Association Ghana — NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute

Leading technical initiatives in Ghana's AI community.

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Writing

Designing Cloud-Native Platforms for Fintech

Principles for building resilient, compliant banking infrastructure that scales across regions.

cloudfintecharchitecture
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GitOps at Scale: Lessons from Production

What actually works when you move from a handful of clusters to fleet-wide continuous delivery.

gitopskubernetesplatform-engineering
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Let's Build Something

Open to conversations about platform architecture, cloud infrastructure, fintech, and engineering leadership. Based in Tema, Ghana, working globally.

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