Oscar Robert Okiya

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Solutions Architect
Nairobi Province, Kenya
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  • 4
    Lead DevOps Engineer
    4G Capital
    May 2022 - Current (4 years 3 months)
    Key Achievements: - Led cross-cloud migration from AWS to GCP, designing and building infrastructure with Terraform, which reduced operational overhead and improved cost efficiency. - Spearheaded the migration from Mambu banking system to an in-house platform, implementing automated tests in CI/CD pipelines to ensure backward compatibility, resulting in a 50% increase in delivery speed. - Developed monitoring dashboards to track transaction counts and delivery latencies, enabling better scaling strategies for peak/off-peak periods and reducing cloud costs by 30%. - Defined SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, strengthening observability and proactive incident management. - Collaborated with the lead architect to design a payment validation system, re
  • AJUA
    DevOps engineer public Remote experience
    AJUA
    Jun 2021 - Jul 2022 (1 year 2 months)
    - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Implementation: Successfully adopted IaC practices using AWS CloudFormation, improving infrastructure reproducibility and deployment speed. - Containerization and Cost Optimization: Championed the adoption of containerization, leading to a 40% reduction in infrastructure costs and improved application scalability and portability. - Optimized Cloud Performance: Strategically migrated systems to a closer AWS region (Ireland), significantly reducing latency by 75% and enhancing user experience. - Data Migration and Security: Executed a seamless data migration to AWS RDS, ensuring data integrity and security through encryption at rest and in transit. - Automated Deployments and CI/CD: Implemented robust CI/CD
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    AWS consultant public Remote experience
    Recon AI
    Jan 2021 - Mar 2021 (3 months)
    - CI/CD Pipeline Implementation: Successfully integrated GitLab with AWS to automate the deployment process, reducing manual effort and accelerating delivery. - Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning: Leveraged AWS CloudFormation to automate the creation of a scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure, including EC2 instances, load balancers, and auto-scaling groups. - Data Backup and Recovery: Implemented a robust data backup strategy using S3 to store application backups and EBS snapshots, ensuring data integrity and disaster recovery.
  • digital divide data
    AWS solution architect
    digital divide data
    Aug 2020 - Nov 2020 (4 months)
    - Cloud Migration Strategy: Evaluated and recommended optimal AWS solutions to migrate applications, ensuring a smooth transition and minimal downtime. - Infrastructure Automation: Developed and implemented CloudFormation templates to automate infrastructure provisioning, increasing efficiency and reducing errors. - Scalable and Resilient Architecture: Designed and deployed highly available and scalable cloud architectures, leveraging AWS services like Auto Scaling Groups and load balancers - CI/CD Pipeline Implementation: Established efficient CI/CD pipelines to streamline the deployment process, accelerating software delivery. - Enhanced Security: Implemented robust security measures, including IAM roles and AWS Session Manager, to p
  • Omdena
    Junior machine learning engineer
    Omdena
    May 2020 - Jun 2020 (2 months)
    In this project, the award-winning Red Dot Foundation partnered with Omdena's innovation platform to build an artificial intelligence solution to better understand domestic violence and online harassment trends during COVID19. Key responsibilities • Text mining from social media and online platforms. • Text classification using topic modelling techniques. • Identifying demographic information by performing named entity recognition analysis.
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  • Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
    Bachelor's degree Statistics
    Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
    2015 - 2019 (4 years 1 month)