JONAS SINGBO
Software Engineer
Cape Town
Summary
Passionate and dedicated full stack software engineer focusing on designing and developing scalable and well-documented code. Enjoy working collaboratively but can also run with projects independently. Motivated lo learn, grow and excel.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates
2
2
Languages
Work History
DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer
Yoyo, Cape Town
Cape Town, Western Cape
01.2021 - Current
- Deployed workloads on ECS using ECR, github actions, bitbucket pipelines and jenkins as needed and set up automated CI/CD pipeline for multiple solutions
- Ensured project documentation was created and updated, including design, development, and infrastructure using Lucidchart
- Collaborated with engineering teams to help with AWS Role Management and provisioning AWS resources
- Demonstrated strong drive to learn and advocate for development best practices (TDD, code reviews, continuous integration, and work in small batches)
- Managed existing AWS Cloud environments, automation, monitoring metrics, disaster recovery/backups, and capacity planning
- Designed and developed in-house auditing platform using streaming service Kinesis Firehose, data analytics service AWS Glue, Athena as query service, S3 for storage, AWS Lambda for data transformation and Terraform as Infrastructure as Code Tool
- Collaborated with Anypoint studio cloud engineers to setup VPN peering for in house Mulesoft applications to access RDS/Aurora databases hosted in AWS.
Deploy test workloads on EKS.
Software Engineer
Yoyo
Cape Town, Western Cape
11.2019 - Current
- Developed features and troubleshooted existing Mulesoft applications using Anypoint Studio
- Migrated enterprise Mulesoft applications to SpringBoot to save costs and improve flexbility and performance
- Developed Java RESTFUL API interfacing with third party services and serving data to Javascript application, using AWS Lambda and API Gateway services for leading bank
- Created and updated documentation as needed concerning software design, bug fixes and developed features to outline changes and serve as reference
- Gathered user requirements, built and maintained code for e- commerce Java SpringBoot application that processes financial transactions, interfaces with payment service providers and generates user media
- Re-architect existing java application to take adavantage of microservices architecture and loose coupling using AWS SQS queuing system and Lambda service
- Develop backend solutions using serverless technologies and deploy stacks with serverless framework (free and open-source web framework written using Node.js)
- Setup tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager and Jaeger to monitor production workloads, respond in time to occurring unwanted events and distributed tracing to optimize API calls.
Front-End Developer
Cape Town
, Western Cape
11.2019 - Current
- Created in-house web app MVP to onboard merchants onto new organization product system using React and Redux
- Developed features to enhance user experience for leading bank loyalty reward mobile app
- Work with back-end developers and web designers to improve existing systems usability
Software Engineer
Zaio, Cape Town
03.2019 - 10.2019
- Designed, developed and maintained organization landing page using NextJS and NodeJS
- Worked with tech lead to re-architect and refactor existing platforms for robustness and performance
- Direct scrum meetings with developer team members and Collaborate with other developer teams to brainstorm and implement ideas on client projects
- Implement new technologies such as GraphQL to maximise development and performance of existing platforms
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Software Development
Cape Peninsula University of
Technology
01.2018 - 12.2018
National Diploma - Engineering: Computer Systems
Cape Peninsula Univeristy of
Technology
02.2014 - 12.2017
Skills
Frontend (HTML/ CSS, Javascript, ReactJS)
Backend (Mulesoft, Java Springboot, NodeJS)
Continuous delivery (Jenkins, Github Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline)
Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, Cloudwatch, X-Ray, SNS)
Infrastruture as Code (Cloudformation, Terraform)
Configuration Management (Ansible)
Containers (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
Database Operations (DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
Automation (cron, AWS Lambda, CloudWatch Events, SNS, python)
Collaboration and communication
Serverless Framework
Version control (Git, GitHub)
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Quote
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Steve Jobs
Timeline
DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer
Yoyo, Cape Town
01.2021 - Current
AWS Certified Developer Associate
12-2020
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
11-2020
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
11-2020
Software Engineer
Yoyo
11.2019 - Current
Front-End Developer
Cape Town
11.2019 - Current
Software Engineer
Zaio, Cape Town
03.2019 - 10.2019
Bachelor of Technology - Software Development
Cape Peninsula University of
Technology
01.2018 - 12.2018
National Diploma - Engineering: Computer Systems
Cape Peninsula Univeristy of
Technology
02.2014 - 12.2017