Kere E.
Application Developer @IBM
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WORK HISTORY
Application Developer @IBM
Toronto, ON, CA
Led DevOps initiatives across telecommunications and financial services clients, delivering cloud infrastructure solutions and automated deployment pipelines:Key Projects:AWS Immutable Infrastructure Platform: Architected and implemented a centralized, event-driven EC2 Auto Scaling Group platform using AWS Step Functions, Lambda, and CDK. Designed a circuit breaker system to prevent runaway scaling, delivering self-healing infrastructure with automated rollback capabilities.Cloud Migration & Modernization: Led lift-and-shift migration of legacy on-premises applications to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Transformed monolithic applications into containerized microservices with automated CI/CD pipelines using Helm charts. Designed and implemented ETL data pipelines using Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow) with version-controlled DAGs, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes and enabling scalable, cloud-native operations.Kubernetes Infrastructure Expansion: Extended existing bare metal Kubernetes cluster using OpenStack VMs with strict workload isolation through node affinity, taints, and tolerations. Established secure network policies and implemented automated deployment pipelines for new microservices.Technical Contributions- Optimized CI/CD pipelines achieving significant improvements in development efficiency and time-to-market- Managed Amazon EKS clusters and complex Elasticsearch deployments, ensuring high availability and system stability- Developed Ansible automation scripts and Terraform/Jenkins workflows for streamlined environment provisioning- Orchestrated GitLab to GitHub migration, enhancing team collaboration and productivity
EDUCATION
University of Liverpool
MSc
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
B.ENG
ABOUT KERE E.
Specialty- Cloud Engineering : AWS SysOps, AWS Solution Architect, AWS Developer, AWS DevOps Engineer, Google Cloud Associate- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, CDK), Azure (AKS, VMs, VNets), GCP (GKE, Cloud Composer, Cloud SQL), Terraform, Ansible- Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Podman, Helm, Istio, Argo CD- Data Engineering: Python, PySpark, Apache Airflow (Cloud Composer), Databricks, Delta Lake, ETL/ELT Pipelines, pandas, SQL- CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, Git- Security & Code Quality: SonarQube/SonarCloud, Checkmarx (SAST), Mend (SCA), CodeQL, OWASP Dependency Check, Trivy- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, CouchDB- Messaging & Caching: Redis, RabbitMQ- Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Alertmanager- Languages & Frameworks: Java 8/17, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Bash, Swift- Web Development: React, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, REST API - AI/ML: Google Gemini AI, IBM Generative AI Developer, AWS SageMaker, NLP, Ollama, Open WebUI- Mobile Development : Swift, SwiftUI, iOS SDK, MVVM Architecture, OCR Integration • Software Engineer with 19+ years experience building web applications.• DevOps Engineer with front-end and back-end experience.
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