Hi, I am Great!

My name is Umegbewe (preferably called "Great").

I'm a Site Reliability Engineer with 3 years industry experience, my primary focus is ensuring the reliability, availiabilty and performance of critical systems.

My experience include designing and implementing scalable and fault-tolerant infrastructures, performing incident responses, and enforcing best practices for deployment, monitoring, and testing.

Outside work, I hack on the Linux Kernel and low-level stuff. I enjoy problem-solving and read books on software engineering, automobiles and finance.

Been using computers since I was 6, and started using Linux at 9. I find networks and the Linux kernel interesting, anyway I would love to work at a physical data center one day.

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Work Experiences

DevOps Engineer

TCI   September 2021 - September 2022

  • Work with AWS Cost Explorer API for cost planning which directed our decisions on optimizations, reducing Infrastructure costs by 20%.
  • Re-architected bad CI patterns on Python codebases, reducing CI pipeline execution time by 30%.
  • Carried out stress, performance, and scalability tests.
  • Deployed multistage CI/CD pipelines and non-production environments to test new implementations.

DevOps Contractor

Cousant  Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

  • Deployed high available, production ready ECS Clusters with Terraform and Ansible.
  • Setup access controls to HTTP APIs using Amazon Cognito user pools as authorizer.
  • Debugged and fix issue with Docker not releasing inodes properly.
  • Extensive documentation of Infrastructure components.

Backend/Infrastructure Engineer

CubeRacks  Sept 2020 - Jul 2021

  • Mobile CI/CD setup on Jenkins.
  • Designed and executed 3 service features for over 6000 users, for an online rent application project.
  • Managed project deployment on AWS including services Cloudfront, API Gateways, ECS, and Cloudwatch.
  • Provisioned monitoring, logging, and alerting systems on services.

LFX Intern

Hyperledger   June 2022 - Nov 2022

  • Built feature to run Hyperledger fabric blockchain on Kubernetes for the Fablo project including components like channels, chaincodes, peers and organizations.
  • Templating of fablo scripts and snapshot tests.
  • Fixed issue installing chaincodes with HLF Operator.

Software Engineer Intern

The Incubator NG   Jun 2019 - Sept 2019

  • Developed frontend features to optimize user experiences.
  • Designed and developed REST APIs for mobile consumption.
  • Helped maintain code quality, organization, and automation.

Projects

Interests

Education

BSc Computer Science - University of Nigeria
Most of my time is being spent outside school writing code and building a startup, I just do enough to get by.

Contact

Please hit me on Twitter or email me at great@linux.com