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Bakare Emmanuel

DevOps Engineer At Peak Capacity | Wannabe Polymath With ADHD

I'm Bakare Emmanuel, alias likewise is Bakman! working under a term I coined "Experienced Computer Pipeline Plumber" at DEIMOS.

I operate at a highly technical scope with skills in general software development, advanced linux troubleshooting, networking, storage and filesystems, cloud operations etc.

During my spare time, I'm an autodidact absorbing "regurgitated knowledge" on Quora alongside several articles and videos on human biochemistry, contractual law and clinical psychology.

Heavily invested in community work, previous ambassador for the Google Community in UNILAG and several others, currently leading the Google Cloud community in Lagos.


DevOps and Backend Engineering
Backend experience in various software architectures, proud advocate for event driven systems and queue enabled workflows.
DevOps Engineer with good experience in linux, virtualisation and software architecture design.

Low Level and Systems Programming
Some experience with ARM devices, utilised micro controllers and IOT devices in pet projects and general work related activities.

Work Experiences

Replex GmbH Backend/DevOps Engineer

Remote, Germany
Part Time
Infrastructure Consultant
May. 2020 - Present

    Technologies:
    K8S, GCP, AWS, Typescript, Golang, Docker, Postgres, TimescaleDB, Prometheus, Grafana

    Responsibilities:

  • Writing efficient SQL queries for independent features

  • Design and implementation of various custom features for metrics, API development and Database Management

  • Work with k8s internal APIs and resources on cost management and features dependent on that

  • Typescript development and general API work

  • Benchmarking and implementation of prometheus queries for metrics

Goldman Sachs Summer Analyst

Remote, UK
Software Engineering Analyst
July.2020 - Aug. 2020

    Technologies:
    React, Redux-Saga, Redux, Typescript

    Responsibilities:

  • Design of dashboards for business cases

  • Implementation of APIs for core frontend functionality

  • React Saga and Component development

DEIMOS Cloud Experienced Computer Pipeline Plumber

Remote, South Africa
DevOps Engineer
Mar. 2019 - July. 2020

    Technologies:
    K8S, GCP, AWS, Ansible, Terraform, Velostrata, VMWare

    Responsibilities:

  • Migrated VMs with Velostrata

  • Fixed grub boot issues on on-prem OpenSUSE machine after critical failure

  • Deployed K8s clusters both on-prem and GCP using Ansible with Xen and Terraform respectively

  • System admin work with xen and VMWare

  • Filesystem benchmarking for possible client proposals

  • Migrated data dumps of 1TBs from mysql to cloudsql instances, fixed issues on sql compatibility with sed

  • General research on best technology options for various problems

  • General knowledge sharing and team assistance work in relation to Kubernetes

  • VPN installations, calico work etc.

WeeSpend Wannabe CTO

Lagos, Nigeria
CTO
Jan. 2019 - Apr. 2019

    Technologies:
    NodeJS, React, Redis, K8s, Cloud Build, Event Driven Architecture, Micro-services, KMS, MongoDB

    Responsibilities:

  • Coordinated team affairs and software engineering choices

  • Market research on product options in relation to cost and design expectations

  • Backend development work and review of PRs from team mates

  • Design of orchestration scripts for general components of the software architecture

  • Management of progress on KPIs and task lists

  • CI management, permission and role assignments for deployments, security work etc.

Raedah Group Remote Linux Ops Contractor

Remote, US
Contractor
Jan. 2019 - Mar. 2019

    Technologies:
    pf, OpenBSD, Go, Relayd

    Responsibilities:

  • Maintained systems in Go

  • Work with OpenBSD systems

  • Relayd and PF configuration for configuring relay proxies

  • Fixed issues with TLS termination on Go server

  • Configured acme client and letsencrypt for certificate generation and renewals

PAADC Software Lead

Lagos Nigeria
Software Lead
Aug. 2017 - Mar. 2019

    Technologies:
    PHP, cPanel, React, Laravel, CloudSQL

    Responsibilities:

  • Maintained almost zero cost throughout project run using credits and cloud offerings

  • Administered leadership practices through team meetings on progress

  • Breakdown of tasks and site design expectations

  • Recruitment of new team members in handling work load

  • API design, general software work and relation of progress back to core board members

Interswitch Group Software Engineer

Lagos Nigeria
Software Engineer
Jul. 2018 - Dec. 2018

    Technologies:
    Corda, Java, JS, K8S, Hyperledger, ELK, Spring Boot, Python, Go, Slate

    Responsibilities:

  • Worked with Corda and other blockchain frameworks building POCs to verify product offerings

  • Worked on demonstrating concepts such as private data on Hyperledger Fabric practically in Go.

  • Read up and developed POC's demonstrating the feasibility about features on certain DLT and Blockchain frameworks (Hyperledger Fabric, Corda, Ethereum)

  • Documented using slides the business potential for such technologies.

  • Implemented reactive API's using Spring Boot Web Flux to interact with corda nodes over RPC using ArtermisMQ

  • Automated documentation generation using postman collections with frontends implemented using Slate

  • Kubernetes work amongst team members, general fixes, assisted with troubleshooting various issues etc

GRIT Systems Software Engineer

Lagos Nigeria
Software Engineer
Jun. 2017 - Jul. 2018

    Technologies:
    Scala, Python, JS, Flask, Kafka (Confluent, Lenses), MongoDB, Embedded, Elastic, Serial, UART

    Responsibilities:

  • Created an efficient notification service consuming large data from distributed (ElasticSearch, Kafka) instances sending alerts to firebase, email and SMS(Twilio, SIM) services.

  • Researched on cryptocurrency applications and tested various engines such as Babble(Hashgraph) and Web3JS(Blockchain, Ethereum).

  • Implemented test services (Bitbucket(pipelines), Nagios, Selenium(TestBots) to detect faults in production.

  • Work with ARM devices, Rasbperry Pis, Arduinos on certain remote IOT product offerings

  • Fixed countless issues with linux related faults, networking and OS related errors

  • Python code to interact with hardware devices over GPIO for network and ADC related tasks

  • Wrote a Kafka Connect plugin to perform data remapping in anticipation of an avro schema change.

  • Worked with Kafka extensively, in stream data manipulations, kafka connect, kafka streams, schema registry

Leadership & Community Roles

Google Developer Group Organizer

Lagos Nigeria
Organizer
Oct. 2019 - Present

Google Cloud Developer Community Organizer

Lagos Nigeria
Organizer
Apr. 2019 - Present

AIESEC Team Member

UNILAG
Team Member
Jun. 2019 - Present

HashGraph Ambassador

Lagos Nigeria
Ambassador
Jan. 2018 - Oct. 2019

forLoop Africa Student Ambassador

UNILAG
Student Ambassador
Oct. 2017 - Oct. 2019

Consonance NG Student Ambassador

UNILAG
Student Ambassador
Sep. 2017 - Oct. 2019

Andela BootCamp Volunteer Learning Facilitator

Andela Complex
VLF
OCt. 2018 - Jul. 2019

Andela Learning Community Ambassador

Andela Complex
LCA
Nov. 2016 - Nov. 2019

Google Developer Group UNILAG Co-Manager

UNILAG
Co-Manager
Jun. 2017 - Jul. 2018

Professional Skills

Top Skills

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Python

5 years
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GCP

Cloud Architect, 3 years
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Linux

Senior, 6 years

DevOps

Kubernetes Docker Nagios Redis Kafka Schema Registry Ansible Vagrant gRPC Istio Kea AWS

Backend

Node Flask Django Laravel Lift Spring Boot

Education & Certification

BSc. Electrical and Electronic Engineering
2nd Class Upper
University of Lagos, Nigeria
2014 - 2019
Good experience over 5 years, most of my time was really spent outside school.
I'd advice past self to drop-out early if given the chance.
Major experiences from school included extracurricular activities, social networking, scholarships and programming experiences.
Certifications
goleansixsigma, aiesec, andela, google

Yellow Belt - GoLeanSixSigma Certificate link
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Certificate link
Web Development Certificate Certificate link
Certified Kubernetes Administrator Certificate link
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer Certificate link
LFD 420 - Linux Kernel Internals and Development Certificate link

Talks and Events


Press Kit information for talk invites can be found here

Blogs

Get in Touch

I don't freelance again but do reach out if you have issues.

I can help with the following:

  • Software Architecture Recommendations (Language Agnostic)
  • DevOps and Linux Issues
  • General Software Development Problems on Backend and Cloud Systems

Drop me a line at me@bakman.build

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