Albert Mugisha, Developer in Charlotte, NC, United States
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Albert Mugisha

Verified Expert  in Engineering

AWS Developer

Charlotte, NC, United States

Toptal member since January 26, 2022

Bio

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

Toptal
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Continuous Integration (CI)...
Ownershub
Go, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Angular...
Cerebral Inc.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Amazon EKS, Ruby on Rails (RoR)...

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

Part-time

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

2023 - 2024
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Terraform, DevOps, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon EC2, MySQL, GitHub Actions, Load Balancers, Performance, Scalability, Amazon SageMaker, Serverless, AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS CloudFormation, Cloud Cost Management, Amazon EC2 API, Pulumi

DevOps Engineer and Back-end Developer

2022 - 2022
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.
Technologies: Go, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Angular, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Terraform, Amazon Cognito, MySQL, Continuous Delivery (CD), Amazon EC2, Server Administration, Rancher, Linux Server Administration, ECS, Web Application Firewall (WAF), GitHub Actions

DevOps Developer

2022 - 2022
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Amazon EKS, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon Kinesis, TypeScript, JavaScript, Helm, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terragrunt, Amazon RDS, Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), AWS Cloud Architecture, Amazon Cognito, Software Architecture, Angular, RabbitMQ, AWS Fargate, PostgreSQL, Amazon CloudFront CDN, DevOps Engineer, Apache Kafka, NGINX, Microservices, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), MySQL, Continuous Integration (CI), MongoDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), DocumentDB, CORS, JavaScript 6, Scalable Architecture, Architecture

DevOps Engineer

2018 - 2021
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Jenkins, Linux, Node.js, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Data Engineering, Go, SQL, Amazon CloudWatch, Redis, PHP, Laravel, Flask, Amazon Aurora

Site Reliability Engineer

2017 - 2018
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.
Technologies: Linux, Elasticsearch, Nagios, Datadog, Grafana, Amazon Web Services (AWS), SaltStack, Data Pipelines, AWS Lambda, Django, Ansible, Security

Senior IT Product Developer

2013 - 2016
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Jenkins, Python

Experience

Document Management System for Real Estate Agents

https://www.realestatecabinet.com/
The system is a real estate document storage, allowing secure storage of broker's documents. It was established to be the simplest and most cost-effective real estate document management solution available. The site is a PHP Laravel deployed in AWS Kubernetes, back-end storage is AWS S3, and Bitbucket Pipelines control the deployment.

Certifications

JANUARY 2023 - JANUARY 2026

AWS Data Analytics

AWS

NOVEMBER 2022 - NOVEMBER 2025

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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