Evanson M
Senior Devops Engineer at Cashia
Kenya
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Top SchoolEvanson M is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and improving developer productivity across fintech and scale-up environments. He has led DevOps efforts at companies including Canonical—contributing to the Juju orchestration project—and most recently drives cloud operations for Cashia in Kenya. Skilled in backend tooling and output formatting, he’s improved observability and usability in open-source projects by refining status commands and enhancing readable outputs. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented, proactive, and strong in cross-functional communication, consistently turning operational pain points into automated solutions. Rooted in practical engineering from early work on POS systems and web development, he blends hands-on coding with systems thinking to deliver resilient, developer-friendly platforms.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Information Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science Information Technology, Information Technology at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)
Swahili, English
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Github Skills (17)
go10
devops9
cli9
ansible-galaxy7
ansible7
encryption6
bcrypt6
kubernetes-pods6
cryptography6
crypto-js6
aws-lambda6
kubernetes6
cloud-custodian6
javascript6
mongoose-schema6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
juju/juju
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Orchestration engine that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure (Kubernetes or otherwise).
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:111 reviews, 182 commits, 50 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Evanson primarily contributed to the backend of the project, making changes related to displaying status information. They improved the tabular output, introducing color-coding to highlight specific data points such as version numbers, IP addresses, ports, and relation messages. Additionally, the user added utility functions and refactored code related to the output formatting and color schemes. These changes likely aimed to improve the readability and usability of the `juju/juju` project's status commands.
operatormicroserviceyamljujuk8s
basebandit/Shajara
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022
A simple app to organize and personalize your memories.
Contributions:12 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
babelreactpersonalizejavascriptorganize
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