Resume — John Awotwi

Profile

Systems engineer and DevOps specialist with 8+ years of experience designing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade web and network infrastructure. Lead developer of multiple institutional platforms and currently architecting AI-focused systems. Experienced in Linux server administration, CI/CD automation, and database systems.

Experience

Senior Technical Officer

Mar 2019 – Present

Institute for Scientific & Technological Information (CSIR-INSTI) · Accra

Architected and deployed 6+ institutional web platforms serving research and agricultural data systems
Designed and managed CI/CD pipelines for multi-project deployments with source code management via GitHub
Administer Linux-based production servers running on Proxmox virtualisation
Provide infrastructure monitoring, backup strategies, and system hardening
Lead developer for HPC cluster and local AI model infrastructure project

IT Officer

May 2015 – Mar 2019

La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly · Accra

Managed municipal network infrastructure (LAN/WAN, routers, switches)
Provided system troubleshooting across multi-user environments
Implemented network maintenance and hardware lifecycle planning

Technical skills

Programming

PHP Python Ruby JavaScript HTML/CSS

DevOps & Infra

Linux Git CI/CD Proxmox Docker Monitoring

Cloud & Data

AWS MariaDB MySQL PostgreSQL LAN/WAN

Education

MSc. Information Technology

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology

Nov 2025

BSc. Information Technology

Ghana Technology University College, Tesano

Nov 2013

Projects archived

CSIRSpace — Institutional digital repository with optimized database, server configuration, and reliability management
AgHub — Full-stack agricultural data platform deployed for bandwidth-constrained environments
CSIR eLearning — Multi-user eLearning system with CI/CD workflows, performance tuning, and server administration
LSACROFT — Low-cost IoT soil analysis device for precision agriculture (ESP32, NPK sensors)