Boring Tech Wins.

Divine Chukwu.

DevOps Engineer.

I build production systems that actually work. Cloud infrastructure, payment platforms, and the unsexy plumbing that keeps the lights on.

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Divine Chukwu

Background

Career

Where I've been, what I've built. Reverse chronological.

  1. Kira AI

    Oct 2025 — Present
    Co-Founder & CTOCurrent

    Building WhatsApp-native banking from zero. 7,500+ users, ₦280M+ processed in production across 5 payment rails.

  2. Travi Mobile Ltd

    Oct 2025 — Present
    Senior DevOps EngineerRemoteCurrent

    Production Kubernetes on AWS EKS, GitOps with ArgoCD, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Terraform-managed infrastructure, cost & performance optimization.

    Promoted from DevOps Engineer · Jan 2026

  3. Nanocodes Programming Limited

    Mar 2025 — Jan 2026
    Backend DeveloperRemote

    Backend services for production clients. Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS.

  4. Y-Queue?

    Nov 2023 — Nov 2025
    Co-Founder & Lead Backend EngineerNigeria · RemoteAcquired

    Co-founded a queue management platform. 4,000+ users. Successfully acquired.

  5. Reispar Technologies

    Nov 2023 — Feb 2024
    Full Stack (Backend) DeveloperNigeria · RemoteContract

    Backend services and full-stack delivery.

Education

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Sep 2017 — Aug 2022

B.Eng., Computer & Electronics Engineering

Credentials

Certifications

Proof of work at the platforms I deploy to every day.

Toolbox

What I work with

The stack I reach for, organized by what it actually does.

Languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptBashSQL
Cloud
AWS EC2ECSEKSRDSLambdaS3IAMVPCRoute 53Secrets ManagerCloudWatch
Infrastructure
LinuxTerraformDockerKubernetesHelmArgoCDNginx
Backend
DjangoFastAPI
Messaging
SQSRabbitMQCelery
Observability
PrometheusGrafanaLokiSentryCloudWatch Logs
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Databases
PostgreSQLRedisMySQL

Featured

Alive Checks

Production-grade uptime & heartbeat monitoring.

A monitoring platform that watches services from outside and from inside. HTTP probes, heartbeat endpoints for cron jobs, multi-region checks, and a proper alerting story. Built like a real product, not a demo.

  • →40+ Prometheus metrics exposed
  • →Multi-AZ PostgreSQL on AWS RDS
  • →Terraform-managed infra end to end
  • →ECS Fargate deployment with blue/green
CI status
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Stack

DjangoCeleryReactPostgreSQLRedisPrometheusGrafanaAWS ECSTerraform

Writing

Three series, one mission.

I publish what I learn from running production systems — the practical knowledge that doesn't show up in docs.

Series

AWS Daily with Divine

Daily AWS scenarios from production. Real problems, real fixes — the practical knowledge AWS docs don't teach.

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Series

K8s with Divine

Kubernetes deep dives covering the operational details most engineers miss — eviction order, resource requests, DaemonSets, and more.

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Series

Notes from Production

Longer-form essays on building, shipping, and operating real systems with real users.

2 postsRead series →
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Coming soon

TechVerse — Kubernetes Explained Through Story.

A new way to learn Kubernetes through a cinematic city universe. Episodes coming soon.

GitHub

Recent activity

What I've been shipping lately.

Dipec001 GitHub contribution chart

Live contribution graph for @Dipec001.

uptime-monitor

Production-grade uptime & heartbeat monitoring (Alive Checks).

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Contact

Let's talk

Working on cloud infra, payments, or developer tools? I'm interested. Quickest path is email.