Anita Akaeze
Software Engineering Manager at HashiCorp
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAnita Akaeze is a Software Engineering Manager based in Vancouver with 10 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability platforms using Python, Go, and JavaScript. She has led cross-functional projects at HashiCorp and CircleCI, improving CI runtime, load and upgrade testing frameworks, and pre-configured test environments to accelerate developer feedback and product reliability. Deeply experienced with Consul, service mesh concepts, Kafka, gRPC, Terraform, Vault, Kubernetes and monitoring stacks like Prometheus and Datadog, she combines hands-on backend and DevOps contributions with people leadership. Anita’s background in QA and automation gives her an unusually detail-oriented approach to production readiness and testability, while her open-source work on Consul highlights practical expertise in integration testing and proxy sidecar orchestration.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, Bachelor of Science (BS), Industrial Relations and Personnel Management at University of LagosMaster’s Degree, Management and Information Technology, Master’s Degree, Management and Information Technology at University of St AndrewsPost Graduate Certificate, Information Technology- Mobile Solutions Development, Post Graduate Certificate, Information Technology- Mobile Solutions Development at Conestoga College
Igbo, Yoruba, English
Github Skills (17)
env10
service-mesh10
envoyproxy10
testing10
consul10
go10
service-discovery10
convoy10
test-automation10
kubernetes9
dockers9
docker9
kubernetes-pods9
api-gateway9
apidoc8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:147 reviews, 1 commit, 95 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Anita's commits primarily focus on enhancing the integration tests and improving the codebase for the Consul project. They implemented assertions for validating Envoy configurations, specifically focusing on TCP filters and HTTP RBAC filters. Furthermore, the user contributed to the test suite by adding checks for container states and service health. Their work also included refactoring and restarting proxy sidecars during cluster upgrades and adding workload selector to MeshGateway protobuf definitions, highlighting their expertise in service mesh and related tooling.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
NiniOak/PopupFood
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:155 pushes, 33 branches in 2 months
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