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Profile I fell in love with computing the first time I used a computer when I was 12 and I knew then that this was the career path I would love to pursue. Since the time I was a Microsoft Student Partner at university, I have always been enthralled with the cloud and the endless opportunities it provides regarding innovation and scale.
An experienced Cloud Architect adept in designing, implementing, and maintaining solutions for cloud-native applications and possessing multiple certifications in AWS and having worked on migration and re-architecture projects in various industries. I have an extensive understanding of software delivery and creating frameworks that ensure the consistent and reliable release of quality software to end-users—leveraging critical development skills and analytical proficiencies to deliver quality software that exceeds client expectations.

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Experience

Ozow
Sep 2021 - Present
DevOps Engineer

● Design and implement architecture for different applications focused on the AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.

● Implement Infrastructure-as-Code across all projects using Terraform.

● Containerise existing applications and platform the applications to run in EKS and ECS.

● Re-architect existing applications for cost-optimization and performance efficiency.

● Reviewing and applying security best practices across the infrastructure, application source code and CI/CD pipelines.

● Implement monitoring and reporting of CI/CD pipelines, APM and Real User Monitoring using various tools.

Tetrad IT
Dec 2017 - Aug 2021
Division Manager, DevOps

● Developing and implementing strategy and go-to-market offering for DevOps and cloud solutions.

● Management of the division, including resource planning, sales strategy, training and development of the team, project management and implementation of AWS projects.

● Working on the deployment, integration, and management of Kubernetes clusters on public and private cloud platforms.

● Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for different applications used by the team.

IQ Business
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
Test Automation Engineer

● Formulation and implementation of quality assurance strategy and automation framework to support testing strategy.

● Formulating robust DevOps strategy to facilitate quality assurance checks during the build process as well as automate deployment and regression tests.

● Implementing continuous integration using Jenkins pipeline strategy running on Kubernetes cluster with source control management within GitHub in conformity with Microservice architecture principles.

Tetrad IT
Sep 2012 - Nov 2016
CRM Developer, Test Automation Engineer

● Analysis of manual testing and development methods to generate automation methodology and architectural framework for continuous automated testing.

● Testing the front-end of web applications using a data-driven testing framework.

● Integration testing of SOAP web services using the service’s testing of Unified Functional Testing.

● Use of COM objects to enhance and optimise test automation and implement data-driven and keyword-driven methodologies.

● Development of custom test execution scheduler and reporting mechanism on test case results.

● Leading the automation team and managing overall execution of the automation project.

● Managing and maintaining the automation environments and servers, upgrading software and applying patches.

Skills

  • Amazon AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • CI/CD
  • Master Data Management
  • Test Automation

Hobbies

Gaming, reading various technology blogs & watching lots of sports.

Whenever I find time, I also enjoy reading a good book amd learning about history.