Experience

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  GoWagr

  • Craftsman

    • Sep 2022 - Present

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  Percona

  • Software Engineer

    • Jan 2022 - Present

    Primarily focused on PMM, an open-source solution for monitoring databases and related infrastructure. Some of my responsibilities include:- PMM Advisors runtime - a Go/Starlark runtime that automates issues detection and recommends database best practices to users.- Backup management - leverage industry-standard tools like Xtrabackup and Percona Backup for MongoDB to provide database backup and restore management to users of PMM.- Alerting - Leverages Grafana Alerting to provide custom alert templates and rules to users.

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  Heroshe

  • Backend Engineer

    • Dec 2022 - Nov 2023

    - Responsible for the design and development of a new notification service based on AWS SQS/SNSthat saw overall system reliability grow by ~10%.- Worked with teammates to bring alerting and tracing to existing services to measure andimprove system observability/mean-time-to-response.- Participate in regular on-call rotations with customer support to resolve user issues.

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  Grey (previously Aboki Africa)

  • Backend Engineer

    • Oct 2021 - Jan 2022

    Worked as a backend engineer on the core product team, with outputs such as:- Help design and implement a Go-based referral system.- Improve endpoint latency with async processing in RabbitMQ.- Improve platform stability with proper end-to-end tests based on the standard Go testing library.- Participate in regular on-call rotations with customer support to resolve user issues.

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  MariaDB Foundation

  • Software Engineering Intern (Google Summer of Code)

    • May 2021 - Aug 2021

    MariaDB histograms are compact data summaries used by the query optimizer to plan querieseffectively.I worked on adding support for JSON as an on-disk histogram format. This allows MariaDB to store more metadata, and support even more histogram formats.

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  CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

  • Software Engineering Intern

    • Mar 2021 - Jun 2021

    - Working on building a scalable remote storage for Prometheus rule evaluations in the Thanos project, while learning about distributed systems, gRPC, cloud-native observability, and its ecosystem.- Build and improve end-to-end tests to catch regressions.

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  Twilio Inc.

  • Guest Technical Writer

    • Oct 2019 - May 2021

    - https://www.twilio.com/blog/author/mokoko- Write technical articles with a focus on using Twilio’s range of products in JavaScript and PHP applications.- Build example projects and demos that showcase the Twilio API. Some of such projects include a real time API monitoringwith Twilio Sync, Slack alerts for Email delivery statuses with SendGrid, etc.

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  Mettalloids Limited

  • Software Engineer

    • Apr 2019 - Jan 2020

    - Build internal APIs and Slack integrations to ease adminstrative tasks and system observability.- Pushed for, and wrote the API documentation to help cross-team collaboration.- Improved legacy codebase using PHPUnit and PHPCodeSniffer for tests and linting.- Responsible for management and administration of MySQL servers running on AWS RDS.