Abigail Appiah

Senior Platform Engineer at Heron Security · Platform engineering · observability, Backstage

Heron Security

Accra, Ghana · GMT (UTC+0)

6+ years experience

Lagos Business School

English, Twi

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Overview

Currently at Heron Security, where I work on platform engineering. Shipped 24 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback. Before that: Accenture and Standard Bank. Most at home with service mesh and CI/CD. I volunteer with a food bank on weekends.

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Skills

observabilityKubernetesservice meshCI/CDBackstage

Experience

Senior Platform Engineer
Jan 2026 - Present
Heron Security · 9 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
- Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
- Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 14 a week to 1.
Platform Engineer
Sep 2022 - Jan 2026
Accenture · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
- Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 12 a week to 4.
Platform Engineer
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Standard Bank · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
- Shipped 6 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.

Projects

Open-source Kubernetes toolkit

2026

A small library for platform engineering that 641 developers star on GitHub.

Conference talk: lessons from developer platform

2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling platform engineering.

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Education

Lagos Business School
MBA, Business Administration
2022 - 2024
University of Cape Town
BSc, Computer Science
2016 - 2020

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