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Gandia, ES

• Leading and growing the platform/devops team. The team’s primary responsibility is ensuring the stability of a fleet of Go services running on various kubernetes clusters.
• Helped reduce cloud costs on GCP by 50% over a 2 month period.
• Co-lead an effort to update systems for a successful PCI DSS certification renewal.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Led the development of Cosmos and Osmosis staking reward indexers, overcoming performance and backwards compatibility issues. Developed in Go with communication over GRPC.
• Developed a novel algorithm for indexing staking rewards on Cosmos based networks, handling complex edge cases that official block explorers get wrong.
• Delivered a Cardano rewards indexer and data API in a single quarter. Responsible for initial research, design, implementation, and deployment.
• Monitored and ensured the reliability of a fleet of Go services running on Kubernetes, meeting all customer SLAs.
• Wrote in-depth technical articles on various chains that were praised by the team for their style and diagrams.

• Key member of a high-performance team contracted to implement V2 of an enterprise platform. Rewrote V2 from scratch in 3 months, compared to the original platform that took 1+ years to develop. Developed as Go.
• Led devops across the company, setting up Kubernetes clusters, CI pipelines, and monitoring on both AWS and GCP.
• Worked closely with compliance to get product infrastructure ISO27001 certified on GCP.
• Contributed to the 1.0 release of Cert Manager by submitting a PR to fix a complex data race we encountered.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Improved performance by an order of magnitude on a key web application that most of the company relied on to do their day to day work. The application became unresponsive during peak times, had a very slow initial.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Successfully lead the technical side of a large multidisciplinary project from design to completion on time, and within budget. The project required extending our existing product to support new partner facing APIs.
• Debugged and restored a Onyx based stream processing cluster to 99.9% uptime after erratic downtime due to a very subtle memory leak. This system was relied an heavily by all company products and became unstable after.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Designed a custom React.js based framework to simplify existing frontend architecture, improving developer productivity and average turnaround time on custom client products.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• Implemented a messaging / mailbox feature.
• Allowed to work remotely since the team was small and spread out.
• Offered a job at the end of the internship.

Namibia

Frontend web development. Setup a Drupal based site from scratch which included theming (HTML/CSS), adding content, and UI work (Javascript/jQuery).

Namibia

Front-end web development. Made alterations to an existing Wordpress site (HTML/CSS/Javascript/jQuery). Learned the value of working in iterations rather than trying to finish each individual piece of work in detail before moving to the next.

Electrical & Computer Engineering (Incomplete)

Completed 547 of 576 credits (95% of the degree) Couldn't finish due to starting full-time work in the middle of my final year, and no.

Electrical Engineering (Computer Systems)

Courses of interest: Programming 1 (Passed with 90%)