Eric Wekesa

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Senior Platform Engineer at Takealot · CI/CD, Kubernetes

Takealot
Kigali, Rwanda · CAT (UTC+2)
4+ years experience
University of the Witwatersrand
English, Kinyarwanda, French
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Overview

4 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Takealot, where I work on the developer platform team. Moved 62% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Grew the developer platform team from 3 to 30 engineers. Most at home with Kubernetes and Backstage. Board member at a local non-profit.

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CI/CDGoBackstageKubernetesservice mesh

Experience

  1. Senior Platform Engineer
    Aug 2024 - Present
    Takealot · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kigali, Rwanda
    • Led the migration of 70 services to Kubernetes.
    • Grew the developer platform team from 5 to 37 engineers.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 3.
  2. Platform Engineer
    Oct 2022 - Aug 2024
    Microsoft · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kigali, Rwanda
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 789ms to 82ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 31% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. University of the Witwatersrand
    BSc, Electronics and Communication
    2018 - 2022

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