Driving the seamless operation of M-Pesa’s essential services across Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Lesotho, Ethiopia, and Mozambique via the Shared Service Operations Center (SSOC) in Nairobi, Kenya. Managing the critical infrastructure that powers millions of transactions daily, ensuring resilience for both banked and unbanked populations.Safeguarding the reliability and performance of M-Pesa’s infrastructure, enabling it to handle high demand and deliver unmatched uptime for financial transactions across Africa.🚀 Expertise:Linux & Windows Proficiency: Managing Linux and Windows environments to maintain system stability, uptime, and security.Oracle Exadata: Utilizing Oracle Exadata to manage large data volumes critical to M-Pesa’s financial operations.Networking & F5 Management: Optimizing network configurations and F5 appliances to enable secure, real-time data flow.🛠️ Daily Tasks:Conducting health checks on RedHat Linux VMs, Windows VMs, Exadata, and data center infrastructure to ensure uptime and performance.Quickly addressing infrastructure issues to prevent service interruptions, with root cause analysis to secure future availability.Collaborating with application and monitoring teams to ensure uninterrupted M-Pesa services across Africa.Applying best practices aligned with the ITIL 4 framework to continuously improve infrastructure reliability.Dedicated to upholding the backbone of Africa’s largest fintech platform, ensuring M-Pesa’s infrastructure is robust, scalable, and prepared for the future of digital finance. Let’s connect to explore fintech innovations!#CriticalInfrastructure #InfrastructureEngineer #MpesaAfrica #Linux #OracleExadata #Networking #DigitalFinance #Fintech #SSOC

Driving the seamless operation of M-Pesa’s essential services across Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Lesotho, Ethiopia, and Mozambique via the Shared Service Operations Center (SSOC) in Nairobi, Kenya. Managing the critical infrastructure that powers millions of transactions daily, ensuring resilience for both banked and unbanked populations.Safeguarding the reliability and performance of M-Pesa’s infrastructure, enabling it to handle high demand and deliver unmatched uptime for financial transactions across Africa.🚀 Expertise:Linux & Windows Proficiency: Managing Linux and Windows environments to maintain system stability, uptime, and security.Oracle Exadata: Utilizing Oracle Exadata to manage large data volumes critical to M-Pesa’s financial operations.Networking & F5 Management: Optimizing network configurations and F5 appliances to enable secure, real-time data flow.🛠️ Daily Tasks:Conducting health checks on RedHat Linux VMs, Windows VMs, Exadata, and data center infrastructure to ensure uptime and performance.Quickly addressing infrastructure issues to prevent service interruptions, with root cause analysis to secure future availability.Collaborating with application and monitoring teams to ensure uninterrupted M-Pesa services across Africa.Applying best practices aligned with the ITIL 4 framework to continuously improve infrastructure reliability.Dedicated to upholding the backbone of Africa’s largest fintech platform, ensuring M-Pesa’s infrastructure is robust, scalable, and prepared for the future of digital finance. Let’s connect to explore fintech innovations!#CriticalInfrastructure #InfrastructureEngineer #MpesaAfrica #Linux #OracleExadata #Networking #DigitalFinance #Fintech #SSOC

• Deliver top-level service for internal (Airflo) and external customers (Facilities Customer), creating user accounts and providing in-depth technical support.• Led an internal IT campaign known as Computer Care Wednesday which focused on teaching the Airflo staff on current trends in the technology space, best practices on both windows and android platforms and how to keep yourself secure in the World Wide Web• Asssited in Managing the companies ERP which is Cargowise and did reports on it.• Used my advanced technical and problem-solving competencies to troubleshoot and resolve production-impacting outages including network downtime.• Managing the companies Intake Weighing System (Multiweigh Technologies) working with IOT devices.• Assisted Internal Finance department to setup and manage the new Tax Invoice Management System (TIMS) which allowed the finance department to be compliant with the current tax regime in Kenya• Setting up iSCSI server and storage setup for the CCTV system upping up the companies CCTV storage from 56 days to 96 days allowing it to conform with KAA regulations for the year 2022• Configure, implement, and troubleshoot Cisco network hardware utilizing various network monitoring (PRTG) and troubleshooting tools.• Working with the Dutch Flower Group Netherlands IT team to assist in Managing our Azure Cloud Servers and Virtual Machines

• Working together with the other Web developers in the team, I was able to gain experience in developing websites using CMS such as WordPress and Joomla. Some of the websites I was able to develop are such as https://kinywaji.com/ and https://invictusafrica.net/• Designed eye-catching website renovation to drive 20% more traffic to clients’ websites.

• Re-Vamped the KwikBasket Ordering E-Commerce Platform – We worked on this together with a group of other developers from Techno Brain Group Limited as I was doing my Industrial Based Attachment. The system was overhauled from the existing system which was slow and buggy to the new one using current technologies such as Vue JS and Vuex for state management.

I was working in many positions in the organization. However, the main position I occupied was teaching Computer and Physical Education to the Kids