NICKSON WEKONGO ◆ SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER ◆ INFRASTRUCTURE · GO · PYTHON · POSTGRESQL · DOCKER · LINUX · AWS ◆ NAIROBI → REMOTE OK ◆ FORTINET CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE ◆ AWS SECURITY FUNDAMENTALS ◆ 8+ LIVE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS ◆ 3+ YEARS SHIPPING REAL SOFTWARE ◆ DEPLOY FAST. STAY UP. SHIP MORE. ◆ NICKSON WEKONGO ◆ SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER ◆ INFRASTRUCTURE · GO · PYTHON · POSTGRESQL · DOCKER · LINUX · AWS ◆ NAIROBI → REMOTE OK ◆ FORTINET CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE ◆ AWS SECURITY FUNDAMENTALS ◆ 8+ LIVE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS ◆ 3+ YEARS SHIPPING REAL SOFTWARE ◆ DEPLOY FAST. STAY UP. SHIP MORE. ◆
04 — Profile

About Me

Backend & infrastructure engineer with 3+ years of production experience. I build systems that actually run — in production, with real users, and real uptime requirements.

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Backend & Infrastructure Engineer

Available for work
LOCATION
Nairobi, Kenya
Remote OK
EXPERIENCE
3+ Years Production
/ whoami

I design, build, and run production-grade backend systems and cloud infrastructure. Go-first. Linux-native. Docker-everything. Built SaaS, fintech, and automation platforms that handle real money, real users, and real uptime requirements.

My journey started with a curiosity about how systems work at scale. Today, I manage 8+ live production systems, maintain CI/CD pipelines that deploy in under 5 minutes, and ensure 99.9% uptime across all platforms.

/ certifications
Fortinet Certified Associate AWS Security Fundamentals Oracle Cloud Certified FortiGate 7.6 Operator FortiAnalyzer 7.4 Analyst
— Skills

Technical Expertise

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Backend Development

Go (Fiber) REST APIs WebSockets Background Workers Authentication Session Management Redis Caching PostgreSQL
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Infrastructure & DevOps

Docker Linux Operations Reverse Proxies CI/CD Pipelines Monitoring Stack Grafana/Prometheus Nginx Container Orchestration
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Cybersecurity

SSL/TLS Hardening Security Headers Fail2Ban Fortinet DNS Security SPF/DKIM/DMARC Vulnerability Scanning Access Control
— Philosophy

How I Work

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I believe infrastructure should be boring. The best systems are the ones you don't think about — they just work. My goal is to build systems that are predictable, observable, and recoverable.

Security isn't a feature — it's a property of the entire system. From the kernel up to the application layer, every component is hardened by default.

/ quote

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Complex systems break in complex ways. I build systems that are simple, reliable, and secure."

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1+
Live Systems
5×
Faster Deploys
99.05
Uptime
7
Certifications

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