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DAVID AKUMA

DAVID AKUMA

Toronto,ON

Summary

Experienced software engineer with expertise in DevOps, reliability engineering, and architecting in the cloud. Proven track record of innovation across multiple industries for over 7+ years. Recognized as a capable leader, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Renowned for a collaborative approach and unwavering commitment to excellence. Passionate about utilizing AI and LLMs to enhance efficiency and optimize operations within organizations.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification

Work History

Software Cloud Engineer

BBC
05.2023 - Current
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams, architects, and stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into software solutions.
  • Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and CodePipeline to increase deployment speed and reliability by 20%.
  • Developed reusable components that significantly reduced development effort by 35% on multiple projects across the BBC.
  • Designed custom monitoring dashboards using Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana for real-time insight into system health and performance metrics improving rate of fault detection before it impacts live systems by over 95%.
  • Implemented security best practices within the AWS environment, safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.

Technical Instructor

Generation UK & Ireland
10.2022 - 05.2023
  • Developed labs and practice exercises to help learners solidify their knowledge of complex cloud concepts using relatable scenarios, whiteboards and diagrams.
  • Prepared students for industry certifications by aligning course materials with relevant exam objectives and offering practice exams leading to over 97% pass rate for main exams.
  • Enhanced student understanding of technical concepts by incorporating hands-on activities and real-world examples in lessons.
  • Improved course curriculum for better knowledge retention and application by gamifying students engagement making it much more fun and exciting, as a result class attendance for daily sessions and student retention was nearly 100%.
  • Mentored new instructors joining the team, sharing best practices for effective teaching strategies and classroom management techniques.

Solutions Engineer (Report Automation)

Huawei
09.2020 - 07.2021
  • Worked across teams to implement reliability engineering best practices, including capacity and performance management through observability, monitoring, logging and alerting.
  • Containerization, management and deployment of software and automating the deployment process using DevOps best practices and automation tools.
  • Translated technical concepts and information into terms parties could easily comprehend using workflows, wireframes, architecture diagrams, systems design, solution analysis, etc.
  • Championed process improvements through data-driven analysis of existing workflows, resulting in significant time savings for the organization.
  • Implemented an efficient production-ready MLOps pipeline that allows for retraining of ML models thereby delivering an average prediction accuracy of 85 - 95% with minimal human intervention, even with introduction of new dataset.

Software Engineer

Apel Group
11.2018 - 08.2020
  • Leveraged cloud governance tools to manage compliance, cost control and security across cloud and on-prem servers
  • Responsible for managing the development of a resilient architecture with proper planning for appropriate Disaster Recovery strategy in line with the SLA and SLO.

Software Engineer

Allianz Media Limited
02.2016 - 10.2018
  • Developed full-stack web applications, APIS, and microservices using python and other web frameworks like django, fastAPI, flask, react, nodejs, express, nextjs
  • Participated in cross-functional projects to integrate new technologies and systems, ensuring seamless operation and user adoption.

Education

Master of Science - AI and Data Science

University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom
09.2022

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering

Federal University of Technology
09.2015

Skills

  • Serverless Computing - AWS Lambda, Fargate, Cloudrun, API Gateway
  • DB Sharding/Scaling/Migration - MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, ORM(SQL Alchemy, Alembic)
  • Linux Admin, Git/GitOps and OS Virtualization - ArgoCD, Proxmox, RedHat
  • System / Cloud Architecture Design
  • Containerization Technologies - Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, ArgoCD, EKS
  • Scripting Languages - Bash, Python, Javascript/Typescript
  • Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Cloud Formation
  • Monitoring tools - Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, PagerDuty
  • REST APIs and Web Frameworks - React, NextJS, Node JS, FastAPI, Flask
  • CI/CD and CM - Jenkins, Github Actions, Ansible, CodePipeline
  • SDN, TLS, HTTP, Security, Authentication, and Encryption
  • Technical Documentation, Reporting and Technical Training
  • RAG, LLM and MLOps

Certification

  • AWS Solutions Architect
  • AWS Developer Associate Cert.

Hobbies and Interests

Public Speaking, Teaching, Technical Writing, Mentorship, Ping Pong, Video Game(Football)

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Software Cloud Engineer - BBC
05.2023 - Current
Technical Instructor - Generation UK & Ireland
10.2022 - 05.2023
Solutions Engineer (Report Automation) - Huawei
09.2020 - 07.2021
Software Engineer - Apel Group
11.2018 - 08.2020
Software Engineer - Allianz Media Limited
02.2016 - 10.2018
University of Hull - Master of Science, AI and Data Science
Federal University of Technology - Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering

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