Aurlus Wedava
Senior Backend & Devops Engineer at TolaData
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolAurlus Wedava is a Senior Backend & DevOps Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating backend systems, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native services across GCP, AWS, Azure and OpenShift. Currently at TolaData, he focuses on monitoring and evaluation SaaS, bringing a pragmatic blend of Python-first backend engineering and infrastructure automation. His career spans senior roles at Humanitec and Twiga Foods and a CTO stint at Faidika, where he combined software architecture with business process automation and ERP integrations. Early freelance work on Upwork exposed him to diverse tech stacks—from Django/Flask APIs to QT and Linux system administration—shaping a versatility that helps him move quickly between code, ops, and product needs. Comfortable with both remote and on-site collaboration, he emphasizes test-driven development, version control discipline, and reliable delivery at scale. Based in Nairobi, he pairs strong technical depth with an appetite for adopting new tools when they meaningfully improve outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at DEDAN KIMATHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (DeKUT)Accounting, Accounting at Star College of Management StudiesHigh School, Accounting, High School, Accounting at Utumishi Academy
Swahili, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (95)
bug-tracker10
project-management9
localization9
mpesa9
planning9
api8
crm8
retail8
itil8
python8
accounting8
nginx8
project-planning8
agile-development8
php8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
toladata-software/django-cryptography
Feb 2022 - Apr 2024
Easily encrypt data in Django
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 2 tags in 2 years 2 months
djangoencrypt-datapythonencrypt
toladata-software/django-auditlog
May 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:6 releases, 5 pushes, 6 tags in 10 months
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