David Asamu, Developer in Lagos, Nigeria
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David Asamu

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Bio

David is a DevOps engineer with a background in software engineering. An expert in GCP, he manages infrastructure in various cloud providers. He has a solid understanding of concepts and technologies such as infrastructure as code, continuous delivery, containerization, automation, secure by design, and Kubernetes. David also has experience implementing industry standards like PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and ISO 22301. He has excellent communication and leadership skills.

Portfolio

Nomba
Python, Go, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Terraform

Experience

  • Python - 7 years
  • Cloud - 5 years
  • Linux - 5 years
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 5 years
  • Incident Management - 4 years
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - 4 years
  • Kubernetes - 4 years
  • Terraform - 4 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes

The most amazing...

...thing I've done was significantly reducing cloud costs by implementing a cost optimization suite that achieved a 20% cost reduction during a growth spurt.

Work Experience

Tech Lead and SRE Team Manager

2018 - PRESENT
Nomba
  • Optimized costs by reducing monthly cloud costs by 20%.
  • Achieved continuous delivery by implementing a system that builds, tests, and publishes releases to production on a fixed schedule. Delivered a training workshop on adopting the monorepo, Bazel, and release train deployment strategy.
  • Collaborated with external auditors to achieve PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27001, and ISO 22301 certifications for infrastructure while adhering to industry standards and meeting licensing requirements for the next phase of business expansion.
Technologies: Python, Go, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Terraform

Experience

Corporate VPN Setup

The project involved provisioning infrastructure for the corporate network. Using Terraform, Ansible, WireGuard, and other tools, I provided three virtual private clouds (VPC), two VPN gateways, virtual machines, two VPC peering connections, firewall rules, routing rules, and three Kubernetes clusters across two cloud providers, GCP, and MDXi cloud running on Azure Stack.

Education

2014 - 2019

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

Obafemi Awolowo University - Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

Certifications

DECEMBER 2021 - DECEMBER 2023

Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Google Cloud

Skills

Tools

Terraform, Jenkins, Grafana, Ansible, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google Stackdriver, VPN

Platforms

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, Apache Kafka, Linux, Azure

Languages

Python, Bash, Go, Assembly

Paradigms

Human Interface Design

Storage

Databases

Other

Cloud, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Monitoring, Incident Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Networking, DNS, Algorithms, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Programming, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT)

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