Ann Mwangi

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Principal Engineer at Takealot · Cloud infrastructure

Takealot
Nairobi, Kenya · EAT (UTC+3)
13+ years experience
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
English, Swahili
Co-founder
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Overview

I've spent 20 years on cloud infrastructure - first at Paystack, now at Takealot. Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Equity Bank and KPMG. Most at home with Go and incident response. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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  • People who want to build this with me
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Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
PrometheusIAMTerraformKubernetesGoincident response
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a design-minded co-founder for warehouse robotics for landlords

The idea
Warehouse robotics for landlords
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
10 years in consumer
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Nairobi or remote

I bring 20 years of cloud infrastructure (currently Takealot). Ideally you've run operations in the Nordics. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Nairobi, Kenyaprometheusincident responseterraform
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Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Feb 2023 - Present
    Takealot · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Sit on 7 boards.
    • Backed 57 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
    Equity Bank · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 35% in two quarters.
    • Shipped 10 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
  3. Senior Site Reliability Engineer
    Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
    KPMG · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 4.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2014 - Jan 2018
    Ecobank · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 3.
    • Shipped 20 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
  5. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Aug 2013 - Dec 2014
    Paystack · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Built the experimentation framework 38 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

  1. University of Nigeria, Nsukka
    BEng, Computer Engineering
    2001 - 2005

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