Augustine Kisitu
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAugustine Kisitu is a Senior Software Engineer and Site Reliability specialist with 13 years of experience building scalable, event-driven systems and customer-centric platforms across public sector, finance and advertising. He has led architecture and hands-on delivery of Kafka-based microservices, real-time recommendation engines, and cost-optimising data migration pipelines using AWS (MSK, EKS, Fargate, Glue) and GraphQL, while championing TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to raise deployment frequency and reliability. At Service NSW he coached engineers to principal level, introduced observability and automated testing practices that materially reduced MTTR and enabled zero-downtime database downsizing for high-read production workloads. Comfortable across Kotlin/Spring Boot, Node/React, Python/Django and mobile stacks, Augustine blends systems thinking with pragmatic engineering to translate complex business needs into dependable software. Based in Sydney, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with a demonstrated knack for delivering cost-effective production migrations and cross-team tooling that scale.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Information Technology Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Information Technology Information Technology at Amity UniversityCisco Certified Networking Professional(Service Provider) Computer Networks, Cisco Certified Networking Professional(Service Provider) Computer Networks at Makerere University
French, English, Bantu
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
api10
android-app10
handheld9
android9
realms7
apache-kafka6
aws-msk6
aws-amplify6
ansible6
unit-testing6
amazon-ecs6
integrate4
aws-glue3
jstree3
get-started3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rapidftr/RapidFTR-Android
Sep 2013 - Jun 2015
Official Android App developed from/for the RapidFTR API
Contributions:99 commits, 9 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 9 months
android-appapiandroid
austiine04/pneuma
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:133 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 7 months
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