Abraham Kakooza
Cloud Engineer at Curious Learning
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolAbraham Kakooza is a Cloud Engineer and engineering leader with nine years of hands-on experience designing secure, cost-efficient cloud and on-premise systems and building end-to-end AI models. He has driven measurable operational improvements—cutting provisioning time from days to minutes, reducing costs by 40%, and boosting backup success to over 98%—while ensuring compliance across regulated environments. Comfortable across Azure and AWS, Abraham has implemented automated security controls (IDS/IPS, NSGs, Key Vault) and infrastructure-as-code practices that translate into real uptime and disaster-recovery gains. He pairs technical delivery with program management experience, defining OKRs and KPIs to align cross-functional teams and shipping product-facing integrations and ML deployments to production. A community builder and open-source advocate who launched major regional summits and grew a 600+ chapter, he brings curiosity from Makerere University to a Seattle-based practice and is completing an MS in Cybersecurity. Notably, he has translated ML research into production speech recognition systems that cut inference times by 80%, demonstrating a rare blend of security, cloud automation, and applied AI.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity at Grand Canyon University..to 2015 Sciences majoring in Advanced Level Physics Chemistry Mathematics and ICT, ..to 2015 Sciences majoring in Advanced Level Physics Chemistry Mathematics and ICT at St. Mary's College KisubiBachelor of Science - BS Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Telecommunications Engineering at Makerere University
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Github Skills (62)
socket-io10
speech-to-text10
pytorch10
javascript10
react-native10
web-application10
python10
google-docs10
crowdsourcing10
technical-writing10
text-to-speech10
websocket10
speech-synthesis10
voice-conversion10
open-data10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
oscakampala/oscakampala.github.io
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Website code for the open source kampala community
Contributions:10 reviews, 159 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 1 month
oscafestkampalanextjs
OSCA-Kampala-Chapter/made-in-uganda
Jun 2021 - May 2022
It is rumored that Ugandans only know how to consume tools and not create them. Here is a curation of awesome tools built by Ugandans that can be used by anybody and from anywhere in the world.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 9 commits in 11 months
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