Allan Sifuna
Platform Engineer
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolAllan Sifuna is a Platform Engineer with 8 years of experience building cloud-native systems and developer platforms from Nairobi. He has driven cost-efficient migrations (Google Cloud to AWS) and reduced cloud spend by 40% using Terraform and repeatable IaC, while also self-hosting key tooling like GitLab, Mattermost, and Sentry to cut operational costs. Allan combines backend engineering chops—decoupling microservices, optimizing latency by 65%, and implementing FHIR-compliant features—with platform responsibilities such as CI/CD templating, observability, and security checklists. He is pragmatic about reliability: deploying tracing, logging, and alerting across stacks and running self-hosted GitLab runners to control build costs and performance. Outside day-to-day work he contributes to open-source projects sponsored by his employer, bringing production-tested improvements back to the community.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Alliance High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Kenyatta University
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Github Skills (39)
kubernetes10
javascript10
docker10
githubactions10
open-source10
go10
scheduling9
pypi9
remotion8
wrapper8
linux8
kernel8
cicd8
linux-kernel8
kubernetes-monitoring7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
allansifuna/Flask-Mpesa
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
Flask-Mpesa provides a simple intergration for flask Applications with Mpesa Daraja API.
Contributions:9 releases, 1 review, 76 commits in 2 years 10 months
allansifunacicdflask-applicationsflask-mpesagithubactions
allansifuna/work
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years
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