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Festus Were

Senior architect in the SRE/DevSecOps space

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Nairobi, Kenya
DevOps Lead at Immutable Ops
Financial Services
immutableops.io
Joined August 18, 2022

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I lead the design and maintenance of critical software applications and infrastructure on AWS and Google Cloud Platform. My role typically involves leading engineering and DevOps teams, high-level technology strategies, building and implementing complex software stacks, API design, and automating build and deployment pipelines. Other specialty areas: - Site reliability engineering - Horizontally scalable and highly available architectures - REST and gRPC API design - Automating development workflows and deployment pipelines - Micro-service design - Monitoring, log aggregation - Single sign-on and federated login Skills and technologies: - Go, Python, PHP - AWS, GCP - Linux - ChatOps, build automation, CI/CD - Gitlab, Jenkins, CircleCI, Shippable, SemaphoreCI, Cloudbuild - Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform - MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Memcached, ElasticSearch, Google Datastore, CockroachDB - RabbitMQ, SNS - Front-end stack (HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript) - NGiNX, uWSGI, stunnel, HAProxy, Apache, Logstash, Fluentd - Airflow, Google Dataflow
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Immutable Ops
Sep 2019 – Present
Kenya
DevOps Lead
My role typically involves leading engineering and DevOps teams, high-level technology strategies, building and implementing complex software stacks, API design, and automating build and deployment pipelines. Other specialty areas: - Site reliability engineering - Horizontally scalable and highly available architectures - REST and gRPC API design - Automating development workflows and deployment pipelines - Micro-service design - Monitoring, log aggregation - Single sign-on and federated login Skills and technologies: - Go, Python, PHP - AWS, GCP - Linux - ChatOps, build automation, CI/CD - Gitlab, Jenkins, CircleCI, Shippable, SemaphoreCI, Cloudbuild - Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform - MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Memcached, ElasticSearch, Google Datastore, CockroachDB - RabbitMQ, SNS - Front-end stack (HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript) - NGiNX, uWSGI, stunnel, HAProxy, Apache, Logstash, Fluentd - Airflow, Google Dataflow