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ELTON LAICE

System Administrator
Maputo,Maputo

Summary

Elton Tomas Laice is a engineer with over six years of experience across various industries, including banking, telecommunications, media, and technology. Currently, he serves as a Senior Linux System Administrator at Standard Bank Mozambique, optimizing and managing the bank's Linux environment. Previously, he was a Lead Software Engineer at Grupo Soico, where he led the migration of applications to AWS, enhancing scalability and reducing costs. In the telecommunications sector, he worked at Vodacom Mozambique, developing applications and implementing significant quality improvements. Additionally, he has experience in backend development and IT infrastructure management. In his free time, he records a podcast called Olenvo Podcast, exploring topics related to technology and innovation.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Senior Linux System Administrator

Standard Bank Mozambique
2022 - Current
  • Optimized manage the bank's Linux environment (prod and non-prod), around 500 VMs
  • Use Satellite and Ansible to automate environment management on 100% of virtual machine
  • Support for virtualization through VMWare.

Lead Software Engineer

Grupo Soico
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Executed the seamless transfer of all applications to AWS within the first 6 months, streamlining infrastructure and cutting hosting expenses by 30%, enhancing system scalability and overall operational efficiency
  • Directed the integration of Docker and Kubernetes within the team, driving a 50% enhancement in application performance and a 30% reduction in cloud hosting expenses
  • Orchestrated the integration of innovative payment systems into company products, resulting in a 25% surge in sales within a year
  • Orchestrated the migration to AWS infrastructure, slashing downtime from 10% to 0.2% on television and radio platforms, delivering uninterrupted broadcasting services and elevating viewer experience.

Software Engineer

Vodacom Mozambique
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Vodacom Mozambique is a leading telecom operator in Mozambique with 10 million active customers (33% of the market in Mozambique)
  • Developed applications in Quarkus (Java) and Golang for customer portal Squad.

QA Engineer

Vodacom Mozambique
1 2020
  • Clarify and Document features and user stories acceptance criteria with Product Owner and other relevant stakeholders
  • Spearheaded the creation of tailored test suites for frontend (web and mobile) and backend applications, leading to a 40% reduction in software bugs and enhancing overall product quality.

Backend Developer

TECHNOPLUS, LDA
01.2019
  • Technological solutions designed at TECHNOPLUS, LDA, improving IT development services and software quality; optimized project workflows and 75% deliveries
  • Directed back-end development efforts for 4 pivotal internal projects, employing Java and PHP technologies.

Education

Associate Computer Engineering -

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
Maputo, Mozambique
01.2013 - 05.2017

Skills

  • Kubernetes
  • Ansible
  • Puppet
  • ElasticSearch
  • RabbitMQ
  • Terraform
  • OpenShift
  • Grafana
  • Kinesis
  • Prometheus
  • Nexus
  • Sonarqube
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • TDD
  • CI/CD
  • Incremental Releases
  • Pipelines
  • Agile
  • Git
  • GitLab
  • Java
  • Golang
  • Python
  • Bash
  • PHP

  • Test Planning

  • Manual Testing

  • Functional Testing

  • Regression Testing

  • Docker

Certification

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Red Hat, 2023-01-01

Awards

  • Winners of DataHack4FI Mozambique 2017, https://shorturl.at/ARS67
  • Seedstar Maputo finalist 2017, https://bit.ly/2UVKcVA

Projects

  • Olenvo Podcast, Present, Maputo,

https://www.youtube.com/@olenvopodcast,

Founded Olenvo Podcast to explore the exciting world of technology, innovation and startups The Podcast features insightful discussions, expert interviews, and inspiring stories from successful startups in this space Led an interview every week on the podcast about technologies and innovation 


  • Payments DS, 2020, 2022, Maputo

https://developers.paymentsds.org/about-us

Payments DS is a service that lets developers integrate businesses/products with M-Pesa API to facilitate transactions Engineered the setup and control of 6 open source SDKs to fortify the project's groundwork, refining functionality and bolstering system performance

Timeline

Lead Software Engineer

Grupo Soico
01.2021 - 01.2022

Software Engineer

Vodacom Mozambique
01.2020 - 01.2021

Backend Developer

TECHNOPLUS, LDA
01.2019

Associate Computer Engineering -

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
01.2013 - 05.2017

Senior Linux System Administrator

Standard Bank Mozambique
2022 - Current

QA Engineer

Vodacom Mozambique
1 2020

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