About

Natalie Elizabeth is a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with over 6 years of relevant experience in the field. Currently, she is working at Thrive Global as a DevOps Engineer, where she is responsible for ensuring the smooth functioning of the company's infrastructure and applications. Prior to her current role, Natalie worked as a DevOps Engineer at Andela, where she was involved in migrating an in-house tool from Heroku to GCP while maintaining high availability and efficiency. She used tools such as Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure, CircleCi for continuous integration and delivery, Bash for scripting, and Stackdriver for monitoring. She also set up two projects on GCP using Kubernetes and worked with the technology platform team to develop tools around Google Cloud pub/sub to provide insight into events data and enforce validation rules. Furthermore, Natalie worked with other engineers on restructuring the company's infrastructure to have uniform tooling across all resources without causing any service disruption to end-users. Before joining Andela, Natalie was a Software Developer at the same company, where she was responsible for identifying high-potential developers on the African continent, shaping them into world-class technical leaders, and pairing them with companies as full-time, distributed team members. This allowed Andela's partners, ranging from startups to Fortune 500s, to accelerate their product roadmaps while minimizing time spent interviewing, on-boarding, and training new hires. Natalie holds a Bachelor of Business Management and Information Technology degree from Kabarak University, where she majored in Information Technology. Her technical skills include DevOps, AWS, infra, GCP, Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Integration. Overall, Natalie is a highly motivated and results-driven DevOps Engineer with a proven track record of success in the field. She is passionate about using her technical skills to solve complex problems and drive innovation in the industry.