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Richard Bonsu

Platform Engineer — AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · CI/CD · AI-Agentic Workflows

location — Chicago, IL availability — on-site · hybrid · remote current — Innovid, since Nov 2022
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Platform Architecture

From code to production — and from alerts to diagnosis. Click any node.

Platform Engineering
8EKS Clusters
3Environments
30Repositories
45Deploys / Week
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About

service: richard-bonsu role: platform-engineer status: operational

Platform engineer with 6 years running production infrastructure — from Hyatt's enterprise AWS environment to an 8-cluster EKS platform at Innovid, powering connected-TV advertising. Built the Innovid platform for developer self-service by design: engineers deploy, observe, and debug their own services — no ticket to DevOps required. Builds and runs agentic engineering workflows using Claude Code, custom skills, and Jira MCP, PR-gated against production infrastructure across 30 repositories.

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Projects

Three things I built and shipped to production at Innovid — the work behind the diagram above.

AI-Powered Log Diagnostics

A Claude Code skill that correlates Kibana error patterns with live kubectl state to surface a root cause — collapsing a manual investigation into one command.

Claude CodeKubernetesEKSElasticsearchKibana
20-minute manual trace → one command, verified on a production OOM-kill incident
Internal Innovid tooling — no public repo

AI PR-Review Agent

A customized Claude Code GitHub Action that checks every pull request against its Jira ticket and scans for exposed secrets before merge.

Claude CodeGitHub ActionsJira MCP
Runs on every PR across 30 repos — catching missed requirements and exposed secrets before merge
Internal Innovid tooling — no public repo

EKS/Terraform Platform Rebuild

Rewrote a shared EKS Terraform module into reusable, per-environment modules to eliminate config drift across dev, staging, and prod.

TerraformEKSKubernetes
Config drift eliminated structurally — validated on 2 throwaway environments before touching prod
Internal Innovid tooling — no public repo
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Experience

HEAD
nov 2022 → present
Platform Engineer
Innovid · Chicago, IL · Hybrid
  • Engineered an AI-assisted PR review workflow using Claude Code, GitHub Actions, and Jira MCP across 30 repositories, catching missed requirements and exposed secrets before merge
  • Built a Claude Code log-diagnostics skill that correlates Kibana error patterns with live Kubernetes state — collapsed a 20-minute manual trace into one command on a production OOM-kill incident
  • Provisioned and managed 8 Terraform-managed EKS clusters across development, staging, and production, including autoscaling and repeatable cluster rebuilds during infrastructure module changes
  • Designed and operated a centralized EFK logging platform with S3 archival across 10 services, consolidating Kubernetes application and infrastructure logs and enabling full-text search
  • Automated Kubernetes application delivery through ArgoCD and GitOps, sustaining ⚡ 45 deploys/week with automated synchronization and self-healing that eliminated manual deployment steps
  • Caught a sustained memory climb on a production service via Prometheus/Grafana alerting and resolved it same-day, before it affected customers
PRIOR
sep 2020 → oct 2022
Platform Engineer
Hyatt Hotels Corporation · Chicago, IL · Hybrid
  • Automated application delivery with GitHub Actions, replacing manual application preparation, deployment, and post-deployment validation and reducing deployment time from 30 minutes to 5
  • Migrated centralized application logging from CloudWatch to EFK, enabling full-text search and cross-service troubleshooting for production workloads
  • Hardened AWS IAM permissions across application and infrastructure resources using least-privilege principles — removed 30% of permissions across 8 roles, shrinking the blast radius of a compromised credential or workload
  • Tuned Grafana monitoring and alerting thresholds to cut noisy, duplicate paging for the same incident
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Stack

Cloud

AWSEKSEC2VPCIAMSecrets ManagerS3CloudWatch

Containers & Platform

KubernetesDockerLinux

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub ActionsArgoCD

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaCloudWatchElasticsearchFluentdKibana

AI-Agentic Engineering

Claude CodeCustom Agent SkillsMCP ServersCLAUDE.mdAGENTS.mdAI-Assisted Incident Investigation

Scripting

BashPython

Version Control

GitGitHub
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Education & Certifications

University of Education, Winneba
Bachelor's, Construction Technology Education
Ghana
Kumasi Technical University
Higher National Diploma, Building Technology
Ghana
CKAD
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
certification