Chibuikem Amaechi
Software Engineer at Capital One
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChibuikem Amaechi is a software engineer with nine years of experience building backend services and infrastructure tooling, currently based in Cambridge, MA and working at Capital One. He has a strong track record of shipping reliable APIs and automation work—contributing bug fixes and functional improvements to the widely used Chef Infra project—while also improving DevOps reliability across platforms including FreeBSD. His background spans GraphQL and REST API development, observability with Kibana/InfluxDB, and remediation of security vulnerabilities in enterprise web apps, reflecting a pragmatic focus on robustness and operability. Known for thinking abstractly and for a collaborative, improvement-oriented approach, he pairs deep system insight with attention to how teams and processes interact.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Houston
Github Skills (13)
chef-client10
automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
devops10
ruby10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
configuration-management9
freebsd8
infrastructure7
bash7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 23 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Chibuikem primarily contributed to the Chef Infra project by fixing bugs and improving functionality within the command-line interface (knife). They addressed issues related to status updates, specifically modifying the display of time differences and error handling for node statuses. In addition, the user made modifications to the mount provider, including handling default mount options and fixing issues with /etc/fstab on FreeBSD. Finally, the user fixed an authentication scheme issue in knife ssh.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
cramaechi/lens-correction-filter
Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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