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SoftwareDeveloper

Isaac Kinuthia

Nairobi

Summary

I am a Cloud DevOps engineer passionate about transforming how organizations build and deliver software. I have been working in the fintech industry where I was responsible for scaling infrastructure and building software solutions that meet their requirements.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Developer

Pesaprint Limited
Nairobi
05.2019 - Current
  • Set up GoCD CI/CD server which reduced software lead time from 1 week to < 20 minutes for new features that needed to be deployed.
  • Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
  • Created automated Ansible Scripts which reduced the software deployment time to production from 1 day to < 30 minutes.
  • Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
  • Collaborated with project managers to select ambitiously, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.

ICT Intern

Uwezo Microfinance Bank
Nairobi
06.2018 - 08.2018
  • Created data analysis dashboards using Python and C++, aiding management in making data-driven decisions.
  • Increased the company's profits by 25% through marketing campaigns that improved loan uptake and repayments.
  • Assisted in the migration of the company's server infrastructure to Fedora Linux which improved the utilization of on-premises infrastructure.
  • Headed the customer care call centre and increased customer retention rate by 5% by responding effectively to customer queries.

Education

Certificate - Cloud DevOps Engineer

Udacity
09.2022

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

The Catholic University of Eastern Africa
Nairobi, Kenya
11.2021

Skills

  • Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (laS Paas, SaaS, CLI/API), CloudFormation, Auto Scaling, EC2 ECR EFS Route 53, and Amazon S3
  • Programming: Web Development, C/C, Python, Java, Javascript, Go and Git
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Ansible, GoCD, GitHub Actions
  • Databases: SQL, NoSQL, Apache Kafka, Redpanda
  • Data Infrastructure and streaming: Apache Kafka, Redpanda, Debezium (CDC), Apache Pulsar

Certification

  • APC-100: Introduction to Apache Pulsar, StreamNative - Issued Jun 2022
  • S101: Scylla Essentials – Overview of Scylla and NoSQL Basics, ScyllaDB - Issued August 2021
  • Security Intelligence Engineer - Mastery Award for Students, IBM - 2016 - 2018

Timeline

Software Developer

Pesaprint Limited
05.2019 - Current

ICT Intern

Uwezo Microfinance Bank
06.2018 - 08.2018

Certificate - Cloud DevOps Engineer

Udacity

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

The Catholic University of Eastern Africa
Isaac Kinuthia