Oranagwa Osmond
I am always excited to learn and try out new technologies. People find me
to be a very reliable, self-motivated team player with excellent
communication skills. Over the past years, I have worked with different
tech teams; automation, testing, site reliability. I have a track record of
always delivering quality products and I can do the same thing for your
company.
235 Ikorodu Rd, Ilupeju
Lagos, Nigeria.
--https://www.linkedin.com/in/
oranagwa-oscar-
EXPERIENCES
SKILLS
Glassbreakers, San Francisco — Software Engineer
Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
My contributions includes:
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Scaling the algorithm to run 2x faster by improving db queries
by 98% and overall runtime by 95%
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Setting up SSO integration for Glassbreaker tenants
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Setting up parallelization framework for running the tests
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Building out dashboards to improve internal business
management processes
Golang
Docker
Kubernetes
Hackathons
Facebook Messenger bot
challenge 2017 (1st runner
IBM Cognihack (Genie Team), Lagos — S
oftware Engineer
up)
(Technologies: Rails, Bluemix, Watson)
https://github.com/oojewale/genie-api
IBM cognihack challenge
Genie Team is the 1st runner up in the first IBM Cognihack competition
held in Lagos. I was responsible for:
Andela IoT challenge 2016
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Setting up the Rails backend infrastructure
Integrating with IBM Watson and deploying to Bluemix
Training the Watson conversation for engaging the user in
conversation.
2016 (1st runner up)
(3rd position)
Developer Community
memberships
Facebook Developer
Community Lagos
Andela (platform team), Lagos — Software Developer
(Technologies: Golang, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka)
I was part of the core team that began the migration of all Andela's
internal systems to Microservice architecture. There, I
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built out the user management system which is the second core
service (first is the api gateway). I ensured it was highly
available and could handle over 100k request per minute with no
sweat.
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set up the acceptance test for the entire Microservice
infrastructure.
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liaised between the core team and the devops team to setup CI &
CD for acceptance test using concourse CI.
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wrote the kubernetes deployment scripts for all the services
Lagos on Rails community
Docker Lagos Meetup group
Andela (zhishi team), Lagos — Software Developer
(Technologies: Rails, Slack-API, ElasticSearch, api.ai)
https://github.com/zhishi-project/zhishi-backend
https://github.com/zhishi-project/zi-notify
Zhishi is fellow led initiative to improve knowledge transfer within
Andela in an easy cross-referenceable manner. I was actively involved
from the idea phase through to the implementation. My contributions
includes
● Building out various features in the backend
● Building out a slack bot to enable easy access to the zhishi
resources from the company slack organisation
Andela (Galaxy team), Lagos — Software Developer
(Technologies: Rails)
https://github.com/andela/eventx
https://github.com/zhishi-project/zi-notify
Eventx is an event management platform that allows event managers
configurable management options for creating, managing and analysing
events. I contributed to the
● Improvement of the app to be tenant based, using
‘act-as-a-tenant’ gem. This allows event managers have custom
domains on the app.
● Implementing ticketing and ticket flexibility for event manager
when creating events.
● Improving authorization using ‘cancan’ gem to allow event
managers add collaborators and volunteers.
● Improving the event creation process.
EDUCATION
University of Ibadan, Nigeria — B.Sc Physics (1st class Hons)
January 2010 - April 2014
PROJECTS and PUBLICATIONS
Most of my public projects are available on Github:
https://github.com/andela-ooranagwa. Notable projects include
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Microframe
TicTacToe game for the messenger bot platform
I also contribute to open source. I am especially excited about my
contribution to the Sendgrid go library:
https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-go/pull/96
I often share my learnings on Medium here:
https://medium.com/Oskarr3
