Martin Mkolwe

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About Martin Mkolwe

Experienced Enterprise Solutions Architect and Open-Source Ambassador with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Enterprise Application Architecture, Agile Methodologies, Modelling languages, Leading large scale Cloud migration projects, Guiding organization in adoption of Cloud Adoption Framework & TOGAF, Formulating IT Strategies & Roadmaps around DevOps, API management, Data warehouse, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Mentor, Leadership, Project Management Skills, Core Java, Python & PHP. Strong support professional with a COMPUTER SCIENCE focused in Computer Science from KISII UNIVERSITY. I like building solutions that get big. Whether it's the technology or business I always want them to scale. Skill set- • Deep understanding of modelling languages i.e. Archimate, UML, Bizagi • Deep understanding & implementing robust and high performant data ingestion engines to data lakes • Knowledge on architecting highly scalable, fault-tolerant,resilient and cost-optimized solutions in cloud • Deep understanding of AWS and Cloud Computing concepts • Experience managing DevOps pipelines through employing blue-green deployment, canary releases & immutable deployment on AWS Cloud | Microsoft Azure | GCP | Heroku | Digital Ocean • Good understanding of security best practices. • Good understanding of microservice, service-oriented and serverless architecture • Windows and Linux (Ubuntu, Redhat, CentOS) System administration. • Languages- Java, PHP, Node.js, SQL, Web Development, Bash scripting. • Computer Hardware and Software diagnosis, troubleshooting and fixing. • Deep knowledge on recovery-oriented computing to architect & build disaster recovery solutions for large scale IT projects • DevOps: AWS CloudFormation, Teraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, Docker and Kubernetes, Azure DevOps • Networking skills – Analysis of VPC Flow logs, Setting up of VPC,TCP View packet analysis, mail server, curl. • Other technologies: JBoss(Wildfly), Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTPD, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic,AWS X-Ray, Step Functions, AWS CloudSearch, Elastic Search, Nginx, SSL, TLS