Anthony Kioko

DevOps/Cloud Engineer - LSSYA – ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (2023 - Present)

• Spearheaded the development of the platform's backend logic, prioritizing speed, reliability, and security to ensure a seamless user experience resulting in the first virtual counselling platform in Ethiopia.
• Successfully integrated the Chapa payment gateway, facilitating seamless financial transactions for psychologists and clients, resulting in 60% increased signups for the fast-growing startup.
• Designed and maintained the platform database to eliminate latency, ensure proper scaling, and ensure it is cost-effective. This resulted in improved performance, reduced operational costs, and a seamless user experience for both psychologists and clients.
• Drafted comprehensive Software Requirements Specification (SRS) documents to streamline the onboarding process and guide the development team resulting in easier maintenance and cutting onboarding duration by a week.
• Guided platform’s cloud deployment, ensuring critical infrastructure is secure, scalable, and highly available, resulting in minimal downtime and over 80% reduction in deployment and running costs.
• Monitored, troubleshooted, and optimized the performance and reliability of the Lssya platform, leveraging AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS X-Ray resulting in 99.99% availability and millisecond request responses.
• Maintained the CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline and Jenkins to automate software delivery processes, enabling rapid, reliable deployments, and resulting in faster feature releases that have significantly increased user signups.

Full-Stack Developer - TRUEWAYS ENTERPRISES LIMITED (SASAKAZI) (2023 - Present)

I created an ecommerce platform for the company using Python/Django for the backend and CSS and HTML for the frontend. The website helps connect the company to their clients and will significantly increase sales.

I incorporated a payment gateway to allow for C2B and B2C transactions. This will allow customers to purchase organic products conveniently, download their invoices and receive payment notifications.

Performed testing for the ecommerce website, created reports for bugs, usability and performance challenges that arise. I also fixed these errors, and it will help maintain the integrity of the platform.

I designed the various visual elements for the ecommerce website under the guidance of the company founder. I focused on a user-centric design approach to make it easy to navigate through and make purchases from the platform. It will help increase sales and customer satisfaction

I created the SRS document for the project, highlighting all features, functionalities and technologies used. This will help make site maintenance easier, convenient and faster in the future.

Recommended and implemented a PostgreSQL database for the website. I also recommended adaptation of cloud technologies (AWS) for file storage and more. It will increase website reliability and gain significant benefits from AWS pillars.

Data Analyst - CloudFactory Kenya (2018 - Present)

Cleaning data to make analysis process simpler and effective for the analytics team.

Helping in the scaling and development of dependable technology through machine learning.

Using visualization tools to make result presentation easier and effective for stakeholders.

Using statistical tools to identify, analyze, and interpret patterns and trends in data sets that could be helpful for the diagnosis and further analysis

Assisting a leading sports company (HUDL) recommend better strategies for coaches who rely on their analytics tools and boosted sports team performances in major and minor league American Football and Basketball.

Preparing final analysis reports for the stakeholders to understand the data-analysis steps, enabling them to take important decisions based on various facts and trends.