Albert Mugisha
Verified Expert in Engineering
AWS Developer
Charlotte, NC, United States
Toptal member since January 26, 2022
Albert is a senior DevOps and site reliability engineer with nine years of experience in Linux system administration, DevOps, and application monitoring. His primary expertise is AWS, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, Linux, and monitoring platforms like Elasticsearch and Grafana. Albert thrives in remote environments, working in the eCommerce and retail industries.
Portfolio
Experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 7 years
- Linux - 7 years
- Elasticsearch - 5 years
- Jenkins - 5 years
- Terraform - 5 years
- Grafana - 5 years
- Python - 4 years
- Kubernetes - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, GitHub, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SaltStack, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Terraform
The most amazing...
...thing I've split up is a Java monolith into 10 different microservices, moving deployments to a couple of times a week compared to the earlier 2-week cycles.
Work Experience
DevOps/MLOps Engineer
Toptal
- Overhauled deployment procedures that resulted in a significant enhancement of developer efficiency. Facilitated the swift bootstrapping of microservices, reducing the time to bootstrap a new microservice from three days to a mere five minutes.
- Implemented a system of observable alerts, significantly reducing mean time to repair (MTTR) from hours to minutes.
- Led security initiatives within the company, driving strategic efforts to enhance and fortify our security posture.
DevOps Engineer and Back-end Developer
Ownershub
- Worked on the primary back end and infrastructure for developing a new real estate concept with ownershub.com.
- Utilized Go, AWS CDK, and Angular for the front end.
- Tasked with the launch of ownershub.com from concept to live.
DevOps Developer
Cerebral Inc.
- Created a new data streaming application using Elasticsearch and Kafka (MSK).
- Transformed operations by creating a self-service repo creation tool based on GitHub and Terraform.
- Worked with the security team on multiple certifications, including SOC 2.
DevOps Engineer
NetFoundry
- Split up the monolith into different microservices that enabled us to move deployments from a 2-week cycle to a couple of times a week, allowing faster pushes to production.
- Introduced Jenkins CI build, leading to more consistent and zero downtime deployments. As a result, the migration moved from Bitbucket pipelines to Jenkins.
- Integrated the regression testing into Jenkins pipelines leading to improved code quality and moving code coverage from 40% to 80% in three months.
Site Reliability Engineer
Red Ventures
- Set up configuration management for 2,000 virtual machines using SaltStack. This was used for security and patch updates as needed.
- Configured a logging framework for five different teams, centralizing logs for quick search and troubleshooting. The framework was based on Elasticsearch and S3 and was used to secure SOC 2 for the company.
- Set up monitoring in AWS using Datadog and New Relic. It was synced with NOC dashboards for monitoring and troubleshooting.
Senior IT Product Developer
Airtel
- Implemented the upgraded data network leading to a 20% increase in data penetration across Africa.
- Carried out the implementation of a service delivery platform for the 17 countries under Airtel Africa, leading to increased VAS revenues due to a quick turnaround time in onboarding new VAS partners.
- Spearheaded the Airtel and Warid merger for Uganda and Congo-Brazaville.
Experience
Document Management System for Real Estate Agents
https://www.realestatecabinet.com/Certifications
AWS Data Analytics
AWS
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, Amazon EC2 API, Terragrunt
Tools
Jenkins, Terraform, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Fargate, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), GitHub, Bitbucket, SaltStack, Grafana, Amazon EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Helm, Amazon Cognito, Amazon CloudFront CDN, NGINX, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Ansible, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Amazon SageMaker, AWS CloudFormation, Nagios, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), AWS Glue, RabbitMQ
Languages
SQL, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, Go, JavaScript 6
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Microservices
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon EC2, Linux, Apache Kafka, AWS Lambda, Rancher
Storage
Elasticsearch, Amazon DynamoDB, Redshift, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Datadog, Data Pipelines, MongoDB, Amazon Aurora
Frameworks
Laravel, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Angular, Django, Flask
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, AWS DevOps, AWS Cloud Architecture, DevOps Engineer, ECS, Architecture, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Pulumi, Cloud, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon RDS, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Server Administration, Linux Server Administration, DocumentDB, CORS, GitHub Actions, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Amazon Bedrock, Load Balancers, Scalability, Scalable Architecture, Serverless, Cloud Cost Management, SOC 2, Data Engineering, Big Data, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Software Architecture, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Security, Performance
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