.. _about: About Alison Mukoma ===================== |profile| *A cloud architect, systems engineer and big data enthusiast*. .. |profile| image:: profile.png :width: 30% Wanna learn a bit more about me myself and I :-)? Look no further than below :GitHub: `@sonlinux`_ :LinkedIn: `linkedin profile `_ :Address: Deutschland :Email: mukomalison@gmail.com :Web: `sonlinux.github.io`_ :Updated: |date| :Copyright: |copy| |year|, Alison Mukoma Employment ---------- August 2020 - Present | **Cloud Platform Engineer** | *Trivago N.V* |---| Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Deutschland | Working with multiple internal teams to build, maintain and enhance data services, big data pipelines and the core streaming infrastrucuture. | *Technologies used: GitHub actions, Ansible, Salt, Packer, terraform, Python, Rust, Git, Golang, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Bash, Typescript, Rails, Python, and Go* * Implementing of security capabilities around our big data infrastructure for apache kafka * Migrating of services from data center into cloud environment (GCP) * Implementing of security around our Kafka connect service * Implementing of stream processors for inhouse ondemand usecase * First point of contact for managing and enhancing mirrormaker services accross regions * Maintaining the GCP pipelines for deployment of big data streaming services 2019 - February 2020 | **Systems Egnineer** | *BroadReach Cooperation - HealthCare* |---| Lusaka, Zambia | Worked on HealthCare data sharing capabilities for UNAID funded projects | *Technologies used: Python, Apache Kafka, Docker, time series databases - Prometheus, graphana, ELK stack, Typescript, Rails, Python, and Rancher orchestrator etc* * Implementing central streaming serivice for healthcare data accross the nation * Implement connecting interfaces for onboarding new data sources May 2019 | **Director Systems Engineering** | *Em13 LLC* |---| Miami, USA | Mostly Maintaining underlying services and enhancing existing tooling | *Technologies used: similar technologies carried forward with a slight focus on project management* November 2018 | **Senior DevOps Engineer** | *Em13 LLC* |---| Miami, USA | I mostly worked on the core email marketing platform, | building efficient email delivery and tracking tools around it as well as | implementing and maintaining the API for third party mailer companies to integrate with. | *Technologies used: Python, Django, JS, MTA(Mail Transfer Agent) Technologies, Network layer designs, RabbitMQ* | *Celery, Nginx, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD Travis, Jenkins, Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL, time series dabatases* | *REST APIs, Rancher, Ansible, ELK stack, Prometheus, Puppet, Agile delivery PM, Scrum master Typescript* * Re-engineered the design of the existing email marketing platform from monolith into microservice and containerised architecture * Implemented the new design for production roll out * Orchestrated the marketing tooling such as MTA, transfer agents to run on containerized environments with scaling * Implemented the new infrastructure for AWS and automated deployment pipelines for the platform and tools around it * Implement the API for email marketing partner systems for delivery and realtime analytics tracking 2017 - 2018 | **Software Engineer** | *Kartoza (Pty) Ltd* |---| Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa | Worked on quite interesting GIS related solutions and shared a lot with vast talent in engineering there | *Technologies used: QGIS, PostGIS, PlSQL, python, Django, JS, Web Maps, Docker, Rancher, Bash, Git, CI/CD, Nginx* * Worked on the QGIS changelog manager platform adding extended capabilities * Worked on Biodiversity subpackages for fish water life managemnet * Worked on various more inhouse on demand solutions that came in Education --------- 2018 - Present | **Cloud and Technology Specific Certifications** | *Online certification platforms and Institutions* |---| Global * Have various certification and currently still have some in progress 2014 - 2016 | **Diploma in computer studies** | *Evelyn hone college of applied arts and science* |---| Lusaka, Zambia * Principals of software engineering Minor in Cultural Anthropology, Certificate in Women's Studies * Network fundermentals Active in Amnesty International and Knight's Advocates * Championed the trade for hands on engineering practices Experience ---------- **Languages and Libraries** | Linux/Unix, Apache kafka, big data stacks | Rust, Golang, Vue JS, Python, Django, Flask | sanic asyncio framework, webmaps, bash, React | Postgresql, MySQL, Time series DBs, Git, System | Monitoring services, Jenkins, REST API services, **Platforms and Infrastructure** | AWS: ECS, Lambda, S3; GCP: Firebase, Pub/Sub, GKE, GCS, GBQ, GSM, GCF | Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kafka, graphana, BSD, RedHat, terraform | Ansible, Packer .. meta:: :description: Alison Mukoma's Software Engineering Resume :keywords: software, engineering, iot, development, cloud-native, cloud-based, real-time, big data, Kubernetes, docker, embedded systems .. |copy| unicode:: 0xA9 .. |date| date:: .. |year| date:: %Y .. |time| date:: %H:%M .. |---| unicode:: U+2014 .. _sonlinux.github.io: http://sonlinux.github.io .. _@sonlinux: https://github.com/sonlinux