Engineering and DevOps Lead at AlphaOmega
I joined AlphaOmega, a financial services provider automating financial reporting and fund dissemination, as a Junior Backend Developer and progressed to become the Engineering and DevOps Lead. I played a key role in designing scalable backend systems, driving the adoption of Kubernetes and microservices, and improving the company’s CI/CD pipelines and observability tools.
Key Contributions
- Developed the report dissemination tool, automating report delivery to clients, still in use today.
- Led the setup of the company’s first Kubernetes cluster, scaling backend operations and reducing processing time.
- Spearheaded the migration to microservices architecture to enhance scalability.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines to standardize and automate deployment, significantly improving developer efficiency.
- Introduced monitoring and observability tools (Loki, Prometheus, Grafana), empowering the team with system insights and metrics.
Technologies
- Backend: Python, FastAPI, Celery, SQLAlchemy
- Database: MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis
- DevOps & Cloud: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Ansible
- CI/CD & Monitoring: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Loki, Prometheus, Grafana