- Brought a cohort of 7 learners from fundamentals to hands-on cloud skills by running regular classes on AWS/GCP, networking, storage, CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure as code.
- Helped learners progress faster by pairing live classes with self-paced materials they could study outside class hours.
- Caught mistakes early by reviewing hands-on work and giving direct feedback, so students improved with each session.
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Cloud and DevOps Instructor
Taught cloud computing and DevOps fundamentals to a cohort of 7 learners in the Awake program.
Head of Technical Operations
Ran the technical setup for Awake's online learning program of 50+ participants.
- Kept an online learning program of 50+ participants running smoothly by managing its technical setup end to end.
- Achieved zero downtime across all sessions over five months through close operational oversight.
- Built learner confidence and sped up their progress by giving direct feedback and support.
Maintainer & LFX Mentor
Maintainer and current LFX Mentor for PipeCD, a CNCF continuous delivery project, after building most of its Kubernetes multi-cluster plugin as an LFX Mentee (Mar – May 2026).
- Earned maintainer status after 40+ PRs merged through code review (30+ on the multi-cluster plugin), by building 6 of its 8 Go deployment stages, including canary, baseline and traffic routing; have since reviewed 170+ PRs from other contributors.
- Gave operators a pass/fail for each cluster across all 5 parallel deployment stages, instead of one status for the whole rollout, by adding a
DeployTargetStatusAPI to the plugin SDK (piped-plugin-sdk-go#6) and consolidating 4 duplicatederrgroupfan-out blocks into one shared helper. - Surfaced drift between Git and live cluster state across 5 workload types, verified by 125+ unit tests, by fixing drift detection and adding health checks for DaemonSet, ReplicaSet and Pod.
Backend Engineer
Built and optimized backend APIs for payments, wallet operations, and campaign incentives.
- Increased transaction speed by building and optimizing production APIs for payments, wallets, campaign incentives, bulk airtime, and unified bill payments.
- Reduced delays between teams by writing clear Postman API documentation and aligning shared data models up front.
- Improved service reliability by refactoring core backend logic and fixing integration bugs through pair programming during agile sprints.
Junior DevOps Engineer
Built the booking engine and security layer for NitHub's space-management API, and automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
- Built the booking engine for NitHub's space-management API, enforcing advance-booking, minimum-duration and buffer rules for 3 space types, by implementing a Strategy-pattern validator, cached availability checks and pessimistic booking locks to guard against concurrent double bookings.
- Let guests book event spaces without an account through 5 endpoints, holding each booking for a 15-minute payment window, by expiring sessions with MongoDB TTL indexes and a cron cleanup job, with idempotency keys for payments and a 10/hour per-IP limit.
- Capped login attempts at 5 per 15 minutes and registrations and password resets at 3 per hour by adding Redis-backed rate limiting, with Helmet (CSP, HSTS), a CORS origin allow-list and httpOnly refresh-token cookies.
- Reduced manual QA work by setting up GitHub Actions pipelines running linting, builds, and 50+ Jest tests on every pull request.