Pascal Adama SARR

DevOps Engineer and System Administrator with 6+ years managing critical infrastructure, from industrial data centers to cloud-native Kubernetes platforms. Track record of 99.9% uptime on production systems and 60% faster deployments through infrastructure automation. Deep Linux systems knowledge built through hands-on work: Server Pulse is an open-source sysadmin platform that interfaces directly with Linux kernel APIs, the Docker Moby API, and real-time security monitoring.

Experienced across the full infrastructure stack - provisioning, configuration management, CI/CD, container orchestration, cloud, and observability.

Junior DevOps Engineer and System Administrator - 01-Edu - Remote

(2025-08)

• Maintain the 01Edu platform at 99.9% uptime serving thousands of learners across distributed infrastructure.
• Automated server provisioning with Ansible and Terraform, cutting deployment time by 60% and making all environments fully reproducible.
• Manage containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes on Proxmox clusters configured for high availability.
• Implement and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines with zero-downtime deployment strategies.
• Debug Linux-level performance and reliability issues; maintain system observability and alerting across all production services.

DevOps Engineer - Zone01 Dakar

(2024-08 - 2025-08)

• Automated CI/CD pipelines using Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Vagrant, achieving 50% reduction in deployment time.
• Managed containerized application environments and maintained deployment infrastructure for development teams.

Data Center Manager / Drone Pilot - VOLANTIS

(2021-05 - 2022-02)

• Managed data center operations: server maintenance, data collection pipelines, storage, and availability monitoring.
• Piloted thermographic drone missions inspecting HTA power line infrastructure for SENELEC; achieved 60% efficiency improvement over traditional ground inspections.

Thermography Specialist / GMAO Project Lead - SENELEC

(2018-01 - 2023-10)

• Led digitization of 1,700+ HTA/BT transformer stations; achieved 50% improvement in predictive maintenance coverage.
• Reduced equipment failures by 35% through thermographic and ultrasonic inspection programs.

Senior Elevator Maintenance Technician - CFAO

(2019-07 - 2019-10)

• Managed technical maintenance of elevator fleet across the Dakar-Diamniadio corridor; reduced incident resolution time by 25%.

DevOps Specialization - DevOps - Zone01 Dakar / 01Talent (2024-09 - 2025-02)

Full Stack Development - 30+ Projects - Full Stack Development - Zone01 Dakar / 01Talent (2023-03 - 2024-08)

Licence - Industrial Computer Science - ESGE Dakar (2020 - 2021)

DTS - Electrical Engineering - ESGE Dakar (2015 - 2017)