donald@control-plane: ~ af-anambra-1

from nothing, to everything.

what i do

01
sre / cloud

Reliability

Kubernetes, AWS, observability. I make distributed systems behave under load and recover quietly.

community

Day Zero

Building a home base for southeast Nigeria's builders — AWS-native, mobile-first, made for our networks.

ai + infra

AI for on-call

LLM teammates that actually help when things break. Less dashboard staring, more answers.

build in public

In the open

GitHub, Dev.to, YouTube. Messy and honest. No shortcuts, nothing staged.

advocacy

Southeast Nigeria

It belongs in the global tech conversation. I build from here to prove it.

kubernetes

Toward Kubestronaut

CKA → CKS → CKAD on the way. Clusters don't scare me — they keep me honest.

projects

02
P01↗

NEXUS

Incident-scenario trainer for SRE skills — AI-generated production failures you debug on a live EKS cluster.

EKSxterm.jsLLMMCP
P02↗

ARES

AI SRE platform built for the Amazon Nova hackathon — an ops view sitting over 11 microservices.

Amazon NovamicroservicesPython
P03↗

PROMETHEUS

Autonomous trading bot on Polymarket's CLOB — live paper trading across 20 markets, four strategies loaded.

PythonPolygonWebSocket
P04↗

Day Zero

Community platform for Nigerian builders — AWS-native and mobile-first, built for slow networks first.

AWSmobile-firstcommunity
P05↗

Raph's Orbit

Social-media radar on EC2 — watches LinkedIn and Twitter, pings Telegram when something matters.

FastAPIDockerEC2Telegram

certifications

03
  1. GitHub Copilot verify ↗ certifiedJun 2026
  2. GitHub Actions in progressJun 2026
  3. AWS Cloud Practitioner queuedJul 2026
  4. AWS Solutions Architect Associate queuedAug 2026
  5. HashiCorp Terraform Associate queuedAug 2026
  6. MongoDB Atlas Administrator queuedSep 2026
  7. Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) queuedNov 2026
  8. Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) queuedFeb 2027
  9. Certified Kubernetes App Developer (CKAD) queuedApr 2027

CKA · CKS · CKAD  ──▶  Kubestronaut

day zero

04
aws student builder group · unizik

Founding lead of the first AWS Student Builder Group at UNIZIK — building Day Zero into the home base for builders in southeast Nigeria.

things i say

05

"Building from southeast Nigeria isn't a limitation. It's a superpower nobody expects."

"The best SRE isn't the one who prevents every outage — it's the one who makes recovery boring."

"Observability isn't about dashboards. It's about asking questions your system can answer."

find me

06
GitHub LinkedIn Dev.to YouTube

mission control

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DAY ZERO // MISSION CONTROL
@donaldraph
RESTRICTED ACCESS — INTERNAL SYSTEM

Live tracker: certifications, builds, ambassador programs, GTV evidence, the SRE playbook, and everything in motion.

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