Banjika N.

AWS Authorized Instructor

Cologne, Germany

Experience

Oct 2024 - Present
1 year 3 months
United Kingdom

AWS Authorized Instructor

Go Courses

  • Delivered AWS-authorized content through AAI program
  • Facilitated group and 1-on-1 mentorship sessions
  • Coached non-technical learners into cloud career paths
  • Created learning materials aligned with AWS Skill Builder and AWS Academy labs
Oct 2021 - Sep 2024
3 years
Germany

Cloud Architect

Kyndryl Deutschland GmbH

  • Designed and implemented highly available and scalable AWS infrastructure using VPC, EC2, RDS, AWS DMS, Dynamo DB for different projects
  • Utilized AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure as code
  • Implemented security best practices, including the use of security groups, VPCs, WAF, and IAM policies
  • Collaborated with development teams to ensure infrastructure met their needs and troubleshoot issues
  • Worked effectively with stakeholders at all levels
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
1 year 1 month
Germany

Migration Architect

Kyndryl Deutschland GmbH

  • Supported a bank migration project migrating business-critical applications to IBM Cloud
  • Responsible for technical solution design
  • Gathered requirements from discovery work products and associated teams
  • Ensured requirements were fulfilled at target
  • Reviewed build sheets
  • Created and collected technical input for runbooks
  • Requested firewall rules needed by the application
  • Provided architecture overview
  • Conducted troubleshooting during move events
  • Attended daily meetings to provide updates as required
Sep 2019 - Present
6 years 4 months
Germany

Founder and Lead Trainer

WirfonCloud

  • Designed and delivered full AWS learning paths: Cloud Practitioner
  • Designed and delivered full AWS learning paths: Solutions Architect Associate
  • Designed and delivered full AWS learning paths: Linux and Networking Fundamentals course for cloud computing
  • Designed and delivered full AWS learning paths: Python Workshop for beginners
  • Mentored 500+ learners across Africa, Europe and United States with success stories in certifications and job placements
  • Developed hands-on projects and cloud environments to simulate real-world scenarios
  • Delivered live training sessions, created lab environments, and supported learners via Telegram & Zoom
  • Mentored early-career cloud engineers and aspiring AWS developers
  • Hosted WirfonCloud’s Saturday Cloud Sessions learning community
Apr 2017 - Aug 2021
4 years 5 months
Germany

Assigned Client Engineer

IBM

  • Worked in different migration projects
  • Ensured services were available during critical phases of migration
  • Responsible for customer administration and management, handling technical support relationships for assigned customers
  • Generated incident and change management reports for customers
  • Collaborated with teams to reduce incident tickets and improve incident response times
  • Performed proactive work within customer environments to maintain industry-standard best practices for operating systems, supported software and hardware
  • Wrote detailed change instructions and submitted change requests for supported customers

Summary

AWS Authorized Instructor (AAI), Founder of WirfonCloud offering cloud computing training with focus on AWS Cloud Provider, 8X AWS Certified (Solutions Architect Professional, Developer Associate, etc and currently working towards DevOps Professional), with over 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture, Linux systems, and technical training. Proven track record in delivering high-quality AWS training, mentoring diverse learners, and developing real-world cloud-native solutions. Passionate about empowering professionals to build resilient and scalable applications on AWS.

Languages

English
Advanced
German
Intermediate

Education

University of Duisburg-Essen

Masters, Computer Science with specialization in Communications Engineering · Computer Science · Germany

University of Buea

BSc. Mathematics · Mathematics · Buea, Cameroon

Certifications & licenses

AWS Data Analytics Specialty

AWS

AWS Data Engineer Associate

AWS

AWS Database Specialty

AWS

AWS Developer Associate

AWS

AWS Security Specialty

AWS

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

AWS

AWS Solutions Architect Professional

AWS

AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate

AWS

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