Tools: Python, Azure, Bash Scripting, Postgres, Redhat OpenShift, Jenkins, Batch Processing (PBS), Singularity
Volvo cars is a leading car manufacturing brand.
I work in the Research and Development Organization, Safe Vehicle Automation department.
As a data engineer, my work involves building Extract, Transform, and Load pipelines for processing data collected and used by various other teams within the RnD organization.
My achievements include the following:
- Created and ran pipelines for resimulation data of 3 petabytes in size to produce output for use in functional resimulation.
- Improved the onboarding documentation for engineers to make the experience smoother for new engineers to cut set-up time to 1 week.
- Built an acronym finder app in the Volvo Hackweek 48 to be the single source of truth for the many acronyms used in the company. This innovation won the Don Norman Award (User Experience) Award.
Tools: Python, Flask, Odoo ERP, Odoo, VueJS, AWS, Streaming Applications, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, Postgres, Microservices, Event-Driven Systems, Docker
Koko Networks is a startup that develops and delivers technology to transform fast-growing African cities. I worked on the Koko Fuel Product that enabled customers to access environment-friendly fuel through a network of fuel points.
My key wins include:
- Saved customers 75% of their time by building tools to enable them to solve common issues by themselves. The automation also saved 50% of agents' time, allowing them to focus on the more critical ones.
- Led the changeover of the design of the microservice communication from synchronous to asynchronous event-driven architecture. This improved reliability of the systems by up to 30%.
- Designed and developed the payment microservice that processed payments from multiple payment providers enabling the company to expand into new networks seamlessly.
Tools: Python, Django, Java, MySQL, Docker, APIs, RabbitMQ, GCP
MFS Africa is the largest mobile money processor in Africa connected to 320 million mobile money wallets.
I worked on the Beyonic product, a bank, and a mobile money gateway. Key achievements:
- Led the technical handover of the IPN Hub product from GSMA to Beyonic and later on took the role of Directly Responsible Individual for the IPN service.
- Reduced processing time of transactions and reconciliation process by designing and developing IPN Hub Version 2, improving the end-user experience.
- Expanded the Beyonic product network by adding support for bank payments to the existing mobile money products. The expansion increased the total volume of transactions processed and revenue.
- Upgraded the Beyonic monolith from Python 2 to Python3 and Django 1.7 to 3.0, leading to improved security, reliability, and developer experience on the Beyonic product
Tools: GCP, Python, Django, Docker, Software Architecture, CI/CD, Postgres
Pharmily is an e-commerce platform providing beauty and wellness products for urban youth.
I was responsible for all technology functions in the company.
Key achievements:
- Hired and mentored an outstanding engineering team of 5 engineers. Each had product ownership and a career growth plan, increasing their motivation.
- Automated the DevOps pipelines cutting down the time required by developers to deploy changes and the downtime to less than a minute.
- Cut down incident response time from hours to less than 10 minutes and developed automated monitoring and rollbacks leading to a good user experience.
- Developed the product and technology roadmap, which provided a vision to the engineers on the team.
