About Alison Mukoma

profile A cloud architect, systems engineer and big data enthusiast.

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

2020-12-24

Copyright

© 2020, 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