Lewis Sawe
DevOps & Cloud Security Engineer
Lewis Sawe is a DevOps and Cloud Security Engineer based in Kenya. He holds 10 industry certifications including AWS Security Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, AWS Data Engineer, AWS CloudOps Engineer, AWS AI Practitioner, Google Cloud Engineer, Cisco CCNA, Kubernetes (KCNA), and Google Project Management. He is an AWS Community Builder in the DevTools category.
Skills
Cloud Security, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK), Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, EKS, Helm), CI/CD Pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD), Monitoring and Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Alertmanager), AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, EKS, VPC, IAM), Python, Bash, Linux Administration, Incident Response, SIEM, Threat Detection.
Certifications
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty (2025)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2024)
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate (2025)
- AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (2025)
- AWS Certified Cloud Operations Engineer – Associate (2026)
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner (2025)
- Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (2023)
- Cisco CCNA (2022)
- Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate – KCNA (2025)
- Google Project Management Professional Certificate (2026)
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Experience
- Network & Systems Administrator at Eloho (Apr 2024 – Present): AWS cloud infrastructure, Terraform automation, security frameworks, Prometheus and Grafana monitoring.
- IT Support Technician at Elpris Kenya (Jan 2022 – Mar 2024): Automated monitoring systems, security frameworks across 15 client sites, 99% system availability.
- DevOps Intern at HNG Internship (Nov 2022 – Dec 2022): Reduced AWS costs by 35% with Terraform, built CI/CD pipelines with Docker, 99.9% uptime.
Projects
- Kadi URL Shortener – MLH Hackathon Winner. Flask, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD. 0% error rate at 500 concurrent users.
- Guardian – Python security monitoring tool for suspicious activity detection.
- Agent Containment Protocol – TypeScript system testing AI agent behavior under sandboxed environments.
- Terraform Projects – Reusable IaC modules for AWS (VPCs, EC2, S3, IAM).
Contact
- Website: lewisawe.is-a.dev
- GitHub: github.com/lewisawe
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lewisawe
- Blog: dev.to/lewisawe
- Blog: lewisawe.hashnode.dev