I am a critical thinker and a team player, with a focus on adding value with an intrapreneurial spirit.
Experience
San Francisco
Designed a MVP for a marketplace for healthtech products
Built a web application using Typescript and Next.js to add new users and organizations to the marketplace database.
2022 — 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
As part of small, high-velocity startup that develops the next generation of Graph database-as-a-service with AI vector embeddings:
Designed and implemented an observability stack using Kube-Prometheus Helm Charts, with additional components like Grafana, AlertManager and Thanos to improve metrics and logging across various
Dgraph clusters and availability zones.
Co-developed a CI/CD pipeline and autoscaler for testing (open-source and internal) Dgraph DB,
Dgraph Lambda and Badger across ARM/x86 architectures using GitHub actions, AWS EC2 instances, and python scripts.
Automated the deployment of new build images to respositories like DockerHub and ECR, enhancing
the reliability and tractability of our code releases.
Gained significant experience with AWS cloud practices, instance management, and infrastructure-as-
code integration using Terraform.
Implemented features to overhaul the Dgraph Cloud User experience such as the sign-in page and
billing experience using React JS.
2021 — 2022
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Backend role on INGEST team which handles content processing and publishing on JSTOR.org(An online documents & arts platform and digital archive for academic institutions and libraries), which involves:
Gained experience with coding, testing, and deploying Java and Python applications that run a publishing pipeline. This pipeline supports content upload on JSTOR.
Quality code delivered using Gitlab CI/CD practices, rigorous code reviewing with Github, and various development configurations in MacOS.
Followed modern engineering practices and tools such as automated testing, JetBrains IDEs, and iterative design & development using DevOps thinking.
Joined regular on-call rotations to fix production workflow failures and was responsible for PagerDuty alerts for critical issues.
Interfaced with other product stakeholders using agile/scrum tools like Github and Jira.
Documented database migrations and unfamiliar development requests from other teams to improve collective team knowledge.
2020 — 2020
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Gained experience as a front-end web application developer with the Search & Explore team which optimizes the search experience for users on the JSTOR website. This role involved:
Implementing new features on JSTOR website’s search applications using Python Django and Vue.js frameworks.
Adding fixes for user-facing bugs on search UX that involved handling dependencies with different teams’ backend applications.
Gaining experience with CI/CD methods and tools such as Jenkins with various development environments and configurations.
Following agile practices using GitHub and Jira with other stakeholders.
Implementing accessibility improvements on JSTOR website for an inclusive user experience on all supported web browsers.
Creating documentation of event logs for Search applications to aid in data driven UX changes.
Accra, Ghana
Worked in the electrical department with industrial panel assembly team.
Learned implementation of controls components used in power distribution and the different power distribution product categories.
Conducted testing of completed panels for functionality and safety.
Gained valuable skills in AutoCAD software as well as the operation of large-scale laser engraving and labeling processes.
Education
2017 — 2021
University of Michigan College of Engineering
Bachelor of Science - BS
2017 — 2021
2015 — 2017
Ghana International School
GCE A - Level
2015 — 2017