PETER KOECH
Nairobi, Kenya,Nairobi
Summary
Experienced and results-driven DevOps Engineer possessing a wealth of expertise in managing and optimizing cloud-based infrastructures on AWS Cloud. With a proven track record of supporting Alison's workloads; spearheaded the successful integration of Cloudflare as a CDN, NewRelic for monitoring and alerting, and Circle CI for efficient and automated testing. Deeply passionate about streamlining CI/CD pipelines and enhancing system performance. Committed to leveraging cutting-edge technologies to drive continuous improvement and provide seamless experiences for end-users.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Nation Media Group
08.2022 - Current
- Migration of Legacy Applications: Coordinated the migration of legacy systems to AWS, improving the scalability, availability, and security of the applications. This led to reduction of infrastructure costs by 30% post-migration by efficient use of AWS resources.
- Scripting and Troubleshooting: Crafted, optimized, and maintained scripts in Bash to automate tasks and manage infrastructure.
- Conducted root cause analysis on recurring issues and implemented steps to prevent future occurrences.
- Seamless Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborated with software engineers to understand software delivery needs and provided requisite infrastructure in an agile manner
- Coordination: Coordinated with QA and support staff to troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
- End-to-end Project Delivery: Managed the DevOps portion of new projects from initial business case analysis to closing, ensuring a successful rollout.
DevOps Engineer
ALISON
09.2022 - Current
- DevOps Management: Streamlined the development process by introducing and implementing DevOps methodologies and tools, resulting in increased efficiency and speed in the software life cycle.
- DevOps Management: Ensured high availability and reliability of the development, staging, and production environments.
- AWS CodePipeline and CodeDeploy Implementation: Successfully led and executed a crucial business project of migrating pipelines from standard Bash scripts to using AWS CodePipeline and CodeDeploy.
- Reduced deployment time by 60% and enhanced deployment success rate by 40% by automating deployments using AWS CodeDeploy.
- CI/CD Pipeline Design and Management: Created resilient end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for applications by leveraging AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeDeploy.
Cloud Architect, DevOps
INCENTRO AFRICA
04.2022 - 06.2023
- Helped design GCP Cloud Architecture plan for clients without prior experience in Google Cloud
- Helped re-factor monolithic application into 3 separate microservices and helped in successfully deploying applications to Google Cloud's CloudRun Serverless services and CloudSQL
- Defined cloud architecture for deployment using Terraform to help deploy repeatable architectures (mostly web application workloads built on Laravel + CodeIgniter)
- Collaborated with development and operations teams to develop practical automation solutions and custom modules.
- Research and providing cloud solutions from emerging technologies to meet client expectations for their end-user needs.
AWS Cloud Engineer
NATION MEDIA GROUP
04.2017 - 09.2022
- Working knowledge of AWS Services IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Hands-on subject matter expert for DevOps and Automation in on AWS/GCP infrastructure environment.
- Automated cloud deployments using chef and AWS Cloud Formation Templates.
- Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Optimized volumes and EC2 instances
- Using AWS' Lambda FaaS solution to automate application checks and monitor uptime and non-activity resulted in costs savings of up to 20%
- Handled migration of legacy processes into AWS technologies resulting in improved productivity and throughput
- Strong foundation of knowledge around AWS and Google Cloud Platform
- Work with business units, software developers, security, to design and build applications and services within AWS
- Provide daily monitoring, management, troubleshooting and issue resolution to systems and services hosted on cloud resources
- Design and develop cloud based applications for supporting digital transformation goals.
- Assist business development teams with pre-sales activities and RFPs
- Manage and support full stack applications using Amazon cloud based computing environments
- Participate in planning, implementation, and growth of infrastructure on Amazon Web Services
- Analyzing and monitor performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance
- Act as subject matter expert on AWS and other cloud providers
- Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes
- Provide technical direction and oversight to developers
- Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
- Providing analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime
- Performed software testing to uncover bugs and troubleshoot lag issues prior to application launch
- Used interpersonal and communication skills in interactions, enriching team collaboration, customer relationships on Nation.Africa project
- Implemented GitHub and AWS CodePipeline for version control across developer workflows
- Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements
- Collaborated with developers and performance engineers to enhance supportability and identify performance bottlenecks
Web Applications Developer
WPP-SCANGROUP/SQUADDIGITAL
08.2012 - 03.2017
- Developed and managed client web properties ranging from small to enterprise level web applications
- Championed leveraging on Technical SEO to optimise clients web properties
- Working with creative team and client service to develop award winning web properties.
- Responsibilities included providing technical support to marketing and communications teams internally to leverage SEO techniques for optimising web applications for performance and usability.
- Career highlight included development and delivery of KCB Bankika Web Application using SOAP service and other technologies that lead to KCB Group deliver online account opening opportunities publicly in under 3 minutes.
- Build and test Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for applications to exchange data.
- Researching and continually incorporating useful features and ideas to client applications.
- Applied latest emerging technology, software and project application trends to update and maintain site applicability.
- Designed, implemented and monitored web pages, plugins and functionality for continuous improvement.
- Pulled from PHP, SQL, JavaScript and other back-end library knowledge to bolster programming resources.
- Adhered to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), ensuring compliance with federal accessibility standards.
Web Designer
STANDARD GROUP LIMITED
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Working with editorial teams to create page designs and incorporate within Drupal CMS.
- Designed user interface and integrated into content management system to meet client specifications
- Created style guides to standardize multiple sites around singular templates and design languages
- Built websites leveraging original theme creation using DRUPAL and WordPress CMS.
- Performed technical presentations for internal colleagues.
- Designed all brand page design layouts resulting in revenue growth of over 20% for digital department
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Tech
Nairobi City12.2012
Diploma in Computer Engineering - Computer Engineering Technology
Kenya School of Professional Studies
Nairobi City08.2007
Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Integration
- AWS (EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, Cloudwatch, Lambda, CodePipeline,CodeBuild)
- Cloud implementation
- Nodejs
- Python
- Bash Scripting
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically Terraform and Cloudformation
- REST
- DevOps
- DevOps proficiency
- DevOps Integration
- DevOps principles
- Cloud Architecture Design
- Cloud Computing
Community Work
I am an active member of AWS Community Builders from Kenya. I create content, participate in talks with the community to help share knowledge on leveraging cloud technology in the right way.
I actively contribute to the growth of AWS and adoption of Cloud to the community. Recently I was a Speaker at the Younde Community Group, co-hosted by my peers Chiche and Paula; Recently featured in "AWS Weekly Roundup — Amazon ECS, RDS for MySQL, EMR Studio, AWS Community, and more — January 22, 2024" - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-amazon-ecs-rds-for-mysql-emr-studio-aws-community-and-more-january-22-2024/I shared two talks, one covering Storage in AWS and Serverless
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
ALISON
09.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Nation Media Group
08.2022 - Current
Cloud Architect, DevOps
INCENTRO AFRICA
04.2022 - 06.2023
AWS Cloud Engineer
NATION MEDIA GROUP
04.2017 - 09.2022
Web Applications Developer
WPP-SCANGROUP/SQUADDIGITAL
08.2012 - 03.2017
Web Designer
STANDARD GROUP LIMITED
01.2011 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Science -
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Tech
Diploma in Computer Engineering - Computer Engineering Technology
Kenya School of Professional Studies
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