Akil Aikman
Senior Software Engineer at CircleCI
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAkil Aikman is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in DevOps, deployment automation, testing, and system monitoring to improve production stability. Currently at CircleCI, he has progressed from software engineer to senior roles, bringing hands-on expertise integrating CI pipelines and automating complex test and deployment environments. His background spans performance testing at scale (including systems with millions of monthly users), infrastructure automation with Ansible and Docker, and cloud deployments on AWS. Akil pairs full-stack development experience—web UIs, mobile apps, and backend services—with pragmatic operational skills gained consulting for diverse clients. He aims to evolve into a systems architect who understands both the technology and the people building and using it, which shows in his blend of technical leadership and client-facing consulting. Based in Old Toronto, he combines startup agility with enterprise-grade reliability practices.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at The University of The West Indies Mona Campus
Japanese, French
Stackoverflow
75reputation
12kreached
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3questions
Github Skills (42)
asciidoc10
circleci10
terraform10
antora10
terraform-module10
server10
documentation10
command-line-tool8
cli7
continuous-integration7
automated-tests6
csv6
appium6
amazon-ec26
android6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
soulchips/go-slackbot
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
a slackbot written in go using Docker
Contributions:5 PRs, 42 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months
golangslackbotdockerslackdocker-compose
CircleCI-Public/server-terraform
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Help Terraform modules for CircleCI server
Contributions:3 releases, 49 reviews, 100 commits in 1 year 8 months
circleciterraform-moduleserverentrepriseterraform
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