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AfriConcoct

@SammyOpiyo

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Empowering businesses with cutting-edge technology

Site Reliability Engineer | DevOps Engineer | Infrastructure Engineer | Python Engineer | Backend Engineer

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$200.00 USD
Appreciate all the flexibility and time spent in the troubleshooting sessions, Great Freelancer to work with
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$226.22 USD
Samwel was a lifesaver and solved our coding problems. It was a problem that our coders could not solve as Python was new to them, but Samwel solved this with ease. I highly recommend him to anyone who needs Python support!
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2 years ago
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$11,740.01 USD
Samwel is a great all-around engineer, I was impressed with his ability to pick up new subject-matter quickly. He understands how to write software and is also knowledgeable on infrastructure as well. [21 December, 2020] Samwel does a great job, he's skilled and able to pick up new software/frameworks quickly. [11 January, 2021] Samwel is consistently delivering great work! [18 January, 2021] Great work as usual. [16 February, 2021] Great work! [01 March, 2021] Great work as usual [08 March, 2021] Great work as usual [08 March, 2021] Great work as usual [15 March, 2021] Great work
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3 years ago
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$121.00 USD
He was very patient and went extra to help us.
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4 years ago
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$30.00 USD
Samwel completed the project quickly and on his own without unnecessary questions. He communicates very clearly but is straight and to the point. I will definitely hire him again.
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4 years ago

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DevOps Infrastructure Engineer Consultant

Rapid legal, Inc.
May 2021 - Sep 2023 (2 years, 4 months)
Reduced AWS Cloud costs by more than 35% from around USD 28000 to around USD 18000 per month. Worked on Pulumi code that adds AWS CloudWatch Metric Alarms configured to send notifications to Pagerduty via AWS SNS. Upgraded OpenVPN Access Server and configured it to use an auto-renew certbot SSL certificate. Provisioned an Octopus Deploy Tentacle and set it up for docker build and push to ECR. Set up ECR authentication to use https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper for CI/CD.

Python Code Validator (Part-time)

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Apr 2019 - May 2021 (2 years, 1 month)
Given a repository, my task is to go through it, rate skills, give recommendations on how to improve code standards and validate for specific claims such as Junior, Mid-level or Senior Python Software Engineer using smart contracts. While working on a part time basis, I have risen with time to be the 11th top validator in the leader-board (https://indorse.io/validators-leaderboard?page=1&per-page=20) having reviewed and given recommendations for more than 610 repositories.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Crossover for Work
Responsibilities: Identify quarterly goals that will deliver standardized, high availability, and cost-optimized infrastructure. Create and execute Infrastructure as Code scripts. Plan and execute lift and shift projects for acquired products.

Qualifications

eKitabu Digital Essay Award.

eKitabu
2015
Certificate for being 2nd runners up in an essay titled "Dear Mr President. My life as a Digital Learner....".

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