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 (38)
githubactions10
open-source10
flask-application10
go10
pypi10
mpesa10
javascript9
kubernetes9
cicd9
docker9
flask9
scheduling8
linux-kernel8
kubernetes-monitoring7
mesos7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
allansifuna/Data-Structures-and-algorithms-python
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
allansifuna/flask_blog_application
Jan 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:11 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
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