Mentorship waitlist open · Cohort 2

Hello, I'm Amina. I build platforms._

I'm a Platform Engineer and Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

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Google Cloud◆ Kubernetes◆ Terraform◆ Docker◆ Helm◆ GitOps◆ Cloud Run◆ GKE◆ Prometheus◆ Grafana◆ ELK◆ GitHub Actions◆ Cloud Build◆ Python◆ Bash◆ FastAPI◆ AWS◆

$ ls ~/amina

One person, four ways in.

This isn't only a tech blog. Pick whichever door you came for. They all lead to the same belief: good infrastructure, and good communities, make everyone around them better.

Illustration of Amina coding on a laptop, surrounded by the Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Terraform logos

Engineer

Kubernetes, Terraform and Google Cloud. I build internal platforms and golden paths so teams ship without fighting their infrastructure.

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Writer

Practical, tested tutorials on FreeCodeCamp and Google Cloud's Medium publication, plus the broken bits nobody else mentions.

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Speaker

DevFest stages, community meetups and government policy dialogues on cloud, platform engineering and access.

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Builder of people

Founder of G3Women, co-founder of CNCF Kaduna, WTM Ambassador, and now a mentor teaching cloud from first principles.

Meet the communities

New · Learn Cloud with Amina

4 months. Real cloud. Proceeds fund G3Women.

A small-cohort, live mentorship, two weeks per module, that takes you from Linux and networking to Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD and observability on Google Cloud. No toy sandboxes: you will break real things on purpose and learn how they recover. Proceeds go to G3Women's programmes for women in tech.

How it works → Join the waitlist

✓ module 01 · wk 1–2 Linux, Networking & Git
✓ module 02 · wk 3–4 Cloud Fundamentals & IAM
✓ module 03 · wk 5–6 Compute, Storage & Networking
✓ module 04 · wk 7–8 Docker & Container Security
✓ module 05 · wk 9–10 Kubernetes
✓ module 06 · wk 11–12 Infrastructure as Code
✓ module 07 · wk 13–14 CI/CD Pipelines
✓ module 08 · wk 15–16 Observability

$ git log --writing

Latest writing

All writing

$ uptime --community

Beyond the terminal

I founded G3Women to close structural gaps for women in digital tech across northern Nigeria. I also shape policy conversations and run programmes that produce engineers, not certificates.

Community & impact

385+

people at the IWD summit in Kano

grown from 45 virtual attendees

250+

applications to WomenWhoAutomate

G3Women's first cohort

100+

women trained across 6+ tech paths

four years of WTM Kano

live websites in one day

HerSite, IWD 2026

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On stage lately

All talks

Talk Dec 2025

Beyond the Region: Scaling Intelligent Features with Cloud Run and Gemini's Global Network

DevFest Abuja 2025

Running one service across several Cloud Run regions behind a global load balancer, so the experience stays fast wherever users are.

Workshop Oct 2025

Contribute to Hacktoberfest with Layer5

Hacktoberfest × Layer5

Co-hosted with Ijeoma Eti (Backend Engineer, Layer5), walking first-time contributors through real pull requests to Meshery, a CNCF project.

Talk 2025

Scaling Modern Applications with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD on Google Cloud

GDG Ilorin

Managing Google Cloud with Terraform, shipping through CI/CD pipelines, and scaling applications without heroics.

Watch recording →

$ kubectl get projects

Things I've built

All projects

In progress

Ephemeral PR Preview Environments on GKE

Every pull request gets its own isolated namespace on GKE, redeployed on each push and torn down when the PR closes. CI authenticates with Workload Identity Federation, so there are no service account keys in GitHub.

GKEGitHub ActionsTerraformWorkload Identity FederationArtifact Registry