Nokuthula Nkosi

Overview

Based in Johannesburg. I work on distributed databases at Arcadia Digital. Led the migration of 62 services to performance engineering. Before that: EY and Vodacom. Travel slowly, usually by train.

Replies on weekday evenings

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Jan 2023 - Present
   Arcadia Digital · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
   • Led or co-led 39 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Sit on 3 boards.
   • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
2. Senior Software Engineer

   Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
   EY · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
   • Shipped 10 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
   • Grew the storage team from 6 to 34 engineers.
3. Staff Software Engineer

   Nov 2015 - Sep 2019
   Vodacom · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
   • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 40% in two quarters.
4. Senior Software Engineer

   Mar 2012 - Oct 2015
   Safaricom · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
   • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 23% in two quarters.
   • Shipped 19 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
5. Software Engineer

   Oct 2009 - Mar 2012
   MTN · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
   • Moved 62% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Wrote the RocksDB service that now handles 36 million requests a day.

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Education

1. University of the Witwatersrand

   BSc, Electronics and Communication
   2005 - 2009