Summary
Ian Kisali is a DevOps and AI-focused engineer with five years of experience building resilient cloud infrastructure and SRE practices across East Africa. Currently a Group DevOps Engineer at I&M Bank, he has driven AWS architectures and CI/CD automation that achieved 99.99% availability for core banking applications and cut deployment times and image sizes significantly. His background includes service reliability work at Safaricom—migrating monitoring to open stacks like ELK, Prometheus and Grafana to improve observability and reduce costs—and hands-on embedded systems training that seeded growth in technical academies. Ian combines deep systems engineering (Docker, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus) with practical mentorship and on-premise migration experience, making him adept at scaling both platforms and teams. Notably, his work has spanned multinational rollouts across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, delivering measurable uptime and provisioning improvements.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, A-, Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, A- at Litein High School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, First Class Honors, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, First Class Honors at University of Nairobi