Software Engineer Devops
Resume:
Tapiwa Chadenga
Houston, TX 77051
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Professional Summary
Extensive and intensive software development skills with experience in enterprise grade production using core and frameworks in Java, Python, and C/C++ with some DOTNET.
Expertise in OOP, imperative and declarative programming.
Strong working knowledge of microservice architecture.
Experienced DevOps engineer with cloud deployment expertise mainly on AWS.
Strong CI/CD implementation experience utlilizing Git, Bitbucket, Docker and Jenkins.
Experience in ML and MLOps in cloud environments.
Strong understanding of performance testing, application resilience and security.
Experience with REST API, microservices and MVC architecture.
Strong project management skills.
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) which facilitate effective transmission of ideas at all levels, from clients and product owners through to team members. Work Experience
Jun 2024 -
Current
Amazon: Mt Juliet, TN, USA, Amazon Fulfillment Center Associate, Responsibilities include packing outbound packages as well as other activities necessary for the smooth running of the packing function at the facility.
Mar 2023 -
Oct 2023
JPMorgan Chase & Co.;as AllStem Contractor: Houston, USA, Software Engineer, Respon- sibilities include development and maintenance of a data migration microservices that informed downstream ML/AI and Analytics models. Migrated data from on premises Hadoop platform to AWS. Performed data transformations at target location. Engaged in core codebase development, configuration as code, pipeline as code and infrastructure as code. TECH STACK: Java, Scala, Spark, Python, Pyspark, Oracle SQL, Jules/Jenkins, Bash, Autosys, AWS. Jan 2023 -
Dec 2023
Tutor.com: NY, USA, Mathematics and Computer Science Tutor. Responsibilities include providing mathematics and computer science tutorials in a virtual environment. May 2022 -
Oct 2022
Liberty Mutual; as Sitel Employee: FL, USA, Virtual Assistant. Responsibilities included provision of customer services through LM’s portal for handling inbound customer enquiries via phone, email, chat and social media. Jun 2021 -
Apr 2022
DataKind; as EnhanceIT Contractor: NY, NY, USA, Software Engineer, The client’s system was built in Python. My team and I maintained, developed and deployed the core system utilizing a microservices architecture. The team was responsible for building a data integration tool that obtained data from a variety of sources including third party data providers, API’s and social media. The data was utilized to build ML/AI models. We also deployed models on GCP and AWS cloud environments. We provided web based dashboards and API endpoints to deliver model results. .
TECH STACK: Python, CSharp, FSharp, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Flask, SQL, AWS, GCP. Sept 2020 -
Mar 2021
Revature: Reston, VA, USA, Software Engineer.
I was exposed to managing and customizing Salesforce instances utilizing Apex for back-end programming, the Visualforce markup language and the Lightning Component framework for UI development. 1/3
Jan 2020 -
Aug 2020
Vision13: NY, NY, USA, Software Engineer, My main responsibilities involved developing, testing, and deploying predictive and inference models for a client in the financial industry. TECH STACK: C++, TensorFlow, mlPack, Python, PySpark, Numpy, Pandas, SciPy, Keras, Theano, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Ggplot, Plotly, Docker, AWS.
Apr 2018 -
Dec 2019
Dujkstra Technology: Cape Town, South Africa, Software Engineer - Employee, I was a Java full stack developer for this web development company whose biggest client was a asset management company in the financial sector. I was the technical lead for a team of six and was responsible for development and deployment.
TECH STACK: Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, React, HTML, CSS Bootstrap and PostgreSQL, AWS.
Mar 2017 -
Mar 2018
SALDRU: Cape Town, South Africa, Software Engineer - Contractor, Developed a web based management information system which allowed various users to access and modify data depending on their designated positions, it allowed for intra - company communication and also had report generation and data visualisation capabilities. In addition, I was responsible for training users to use the application.
TECH STACK: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Angular, HTML, CSS Bootstrap and MYSQL, Python, Docker. Jan 2013 -
Dec 2016
LRMG Performance Agency: Cape Town, South Africa, Software Engineer - Employee, Implemented a cross platform big data and machine learning infrastructure. Constructed a relevance scoring engine for search function for a telecoms company’s portal. Constructed lead scoring engine and developed an auto-updating database for sales team. Provided systems analysis for a locally hosted CRM. .
TECH STACK: Python, PySpark, Java, Scala, Spark, AWS. Feb 2009 -
Dec 2012
FirstRand: Johannesburg, South Africa, C/C++ Developer, FirstRand is a portfolio of integrated financial services businesses which offers a set of transactional, lending, investing and insurance products and services in South Africa. I was part of a team that developed and maintained the banks information management system. I mostly worked on data processing pipelines developed in C.
Frameworks and libraries
Java Spring framework, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Scala, Spark Python Django, Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, Scikit-learn, Theano, TensorFlow, Keras, Beautiful Soup C/C++ Boost, OGL, Workflow, Loki
C# DOTNET framework, Unity
JavaScript jQuery, React Js, Angular Js
API REST, SOAP
ML/AI ANNs, RNNs, LSTMs, and Transformers, Natural Language Processing, computer vision, Encoder- Decoder, Sentiment analysis
Infrastructure and Deployment
Cloud AWS
Containers Docker, Artifactory, LXC
Provisioning Terraform, Cloudify
Orchestration Kubernetes, Kafka, Airflow
CI/CD BitBucket, GitLab, Jules/Jenkins CI, Travis CI, Autosys, Terraform Tools Atlassian: Confluence, BitBucket, Git, JIRA
Visual Studio, Intellij, Eclipse, PyCharm
Process Agile: scrum/scrum ban
2/3
Education
Post Grad -
2012
University of Cape Town - Mathematics of Computer Science (Hons.). Diverse program spanning discrete mathematics, computer science and computational analysis. Post Grad University of Cape Town - Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management (Hons.). Intensive postgraduate program introducing advanced tools for pricing financial assets and constructing objective driven portfolios
Under Grad Solusi University - Business Administration, Finance. Fundamentals of economics, introduction to banking and advanced finance Under Grad -
2009
Bindura University of Science - Mathematics, Computer Science and Education. Introduction to advanced mathematics and pedagogy of education, minored in Computer Science. References
Jake Thomas Amazon Fulfillment Centre, Area Manager, TN, Mt. Juliet. ********@******.***
Lemlem T.
Berhane
JPMChase, Scrum Master, ******.*.*******@*****.***, 302-***-****. Rajakumar
Nooney
JPMChase, Snr Lead Software Engineer, ****.*****.******@********.***, 732-***-****. 3/3
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