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- SSenior Devops ConsultantMar 2024 - Dec 2024 (10 months)I worked as a devops consultant for an early stage fintech startup. I helped setup and maintain infrastructure on AWS which included EKS clusters, RDS databases, glue ETL jobs, CICD pipelines, Istio service mesh, grafana and ELK for monitoring etc.
- SSenior Devops ConsultantMar 2024 - Dec 2024 (10 months)
Head of Devops & SecurityOkraMay 2022 - Feb 2024 (1 year 10 months)- OHead of Devops and SecurityOkra:May 2022 - Feb 2024 (1 year 10 months)I worked on multiple services in a multi-cloud environment e.g EKS and GKE (with ArgoCD, Kustomize, datadog), RDS, Kafka (AWS MSK and Kafka on Confluent Cloud), Apache Airflow, Redis, Redshift, MongoDB Atlas and many more. I set up pipelines using Github actions and Jenkins and secured them using Sonarqube. Achievements • Improved security by setting up various services such as GuardDuty, AWS Inspector, Cloudtrail, PatchManager, using CIS hardened images etc. • Halved AWS monthly costs from $20,000 to $10,000 dollars by implementing measures such as automated shut down of non production databases and containers at night and on weekends, terminating unused services, using Fargate Spot, used Karpenter in place of cluster-autoscaler to optim
- Sr Devops EngineerAWSJan 2020 - Apr 2022 (2 years 4 months)
- Senior DevOps EngineerAWSJan 2020 - Apr 2022 (2 years 4 months)I worked with most of the AWS services spanning compute, networking and storage. I was part of a professional services team that: • Helped customers migrate from on prem to AWS • Helped customers architect their applications ensuring they were reliable, scalable and secure. • Helped customers troubleshoot and resolve various issues they encountered while operating their workloads on AWS. This included resolving stubborn/persistent network related issues with customer applications which required an intimate knowledge of the core protocols of the internet especially TCP, HTTP, TLS and DNS. Achievements • Built 10 internal tools using React which reduced the time 5,000+ support engineers spent troubleshooting customer cases by up to 90%. •
- SSystems EngineerSafaricomApr 2018 - Nov 2019 (1 year 8 months)• Maintenance of a server farm containing windows and linux servers running on AWS and Vmware. • Running applications such as postfix mail servers, apache web servers, ISP DNS servers, network management systems, Windows Active Directory etc • Automating repetitive tasks using python and RPA (Robotic Process Automation) Achievements • Reduced new internet connection set up time by 90% by building a python script that automatically configured new internet connections. • Reduced total daily requests to the sys admin team by one third by building an RPA robot that read emails sent to the sys admin mailing group, picked password reset requests, reset the password automatically and sent the new password to the user. • Enhanced the experien
- SSystems EngineerSafaricomAug 2016 - Nov 2019 (3 years 4 months)
- NNetwork EngineerAug 2016 - Mar 2018 (1 year 8 months)The team works with internal network teams and third-party maintenance contractors to identify and resolve customer affecting network faults in a timely and efficient manner. Role involved supporting: • Internet and MPLS connections • VoIP and Firewalls ( IPSec Remote Access and Site to Site VPNs) • Fiber networks including GPON and FTTX • Services on a Cisco IP/MPLS NGN core running on Cisco ASR 900 series & ASR9K series ISP routers Achievements • Consistently achieved a customer satisfaction rating greater than 80%. • Went over and above job requirements and built a customer information database containing customer contacts that enabled the team to easily send customers emails to notify them of planned maintenance activities. • Top
- CNetwork EngineerCopycatFeb 2016 - Jul 2016 (6 months)
- CNetwork EngineerCOPYCAT LTDFeb 2016 - Jul 2016 (6 months)Copycat Ltd is a leading systems integrator in East Africa and a Cisco Gold Partner. I was a network engineer responsible for supporting the network for a large shopping mall. It was a collapsed core network architecture comprising Cisco Catalyst 6880 core switches configured for high availability, with Cisco Catalyst 3650 access switches. A Cisco ASR1002 router served as the internet gateway. I maintained Cisco Meraki Access Points and Security appliances used to provide free Wi-Fi in the mall.
- AIT helpdesk supportAPEC:Feb 2015 - Jan 2016 (1 year)
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- MBAUniversity of NairobiJan 2015 - Jan 2017 (2 years 1 month)
- JB.Sc.Jomo Kenyatta UniversityJan 2011 - Jan 2014 (3 years 1 month)