Calvin Mwadime
Mombasa, Mombasa County, Kenya
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Top SchoolCalvin Mwadime is a Mechatronic engineer and software engineer with nine years’ experience building firmware and cloud tooling, blending low-level embedded development with cloud and DevOps work. He has shipped ARM and AVR firmware in close partnership with hardware teams and extended Azure support and upgrade workflows at Canonical to simplify provisioning and reduce operational costs. Calvin contributes to prominent open-source projects such as cloud-init, improving CLI parsing, tests, and upstream compatibility, and has patched Ubuntu agents to work correctly on newer releases. Based in Mombasa, Kenya, he combines a methodical hardware mindset with pragmatic Python and backend skills to solve real-world deployment and security problems. A perpetual learner, he’s unusually focused on machine-readable, secure logging and practical in-place upgrade paths that save time and money for cloud customers.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechatronic Engineering, Second Class Honors, Upper Division, Bachelor's degree, Mechatronic Engineering, Second Class Honors, Upper Division at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya Certificate of Secondary Education, A, Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, A at Nairobi SchoolKenya Certificate of Primary Education, A, Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, A at Triza Junior School, Mombasa
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Github Skills (14)
python10
cloud-init10
devops10
testing9
ios-simulator6
android-studio6
javascript6
vue6
backend6
flutter6
flask6
android-emulator6
bash5
git4
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/cloud-init
Jul 2022 - May 2024
Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:55 reviews, 15 PRs, 61 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Calvin primarily contributed to the cloud-init project by updating the Puppet service name, ensuring compatibility with different Puppet versions. They refactored code by removing log instances from cc_* handlers, improving the overall code structure. The user also addressed issues related to the handling of cloud-id data and updated documentation links for network configuration. Finally, they fixed parsing issues in the CLI and made adjustments to the FTP integration tests.
gcppythonagnosticinfrastructure-managementupstream
CalvoM/bazeengaOS
Feb 2021 - Sep 2023
How do bootloaders work on x86 processors?
Contributions:21 PRs, 48 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 7 months
processorsrockchipx86bootloaderacpi
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