I am a critical thinker and a team player, with a focus on adding value with an intrapreneurial spirit.
Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
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
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
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
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.
2018 — 2018
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
University of Michigan College of Engineering
Bachelor of Science - BS
2017 — 2021
Ghana International School
GCE A - Level
2015 — 2017