Karik Isichei-forty
Senior Software Engineer at Kraken
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKarik Isichei-forty is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with nine years’ experience building data and cloud backend infrastructure, currently contributing at Kraken. He has led data platform design and delivery across UK government at the Ministry of Justice, where he combined infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, AWS), orchestration (Airflow/GitHub Actions) and data processing (Python, Spark, Athena) to make pipelines reproducible, auditable and production-ready. At Genomics England and MoJ he helped operationalise data science proofs-of-concept into scalable services while driving cost savings, team growth and recruitment improvements. Comfortable bridging hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, he has acted as Head of Data Engineering and mentored engineers across government. Trained in mechatronics and acoustics (MSc, BEng, University of Southampton), he brings a systems-thinking mindset unusual for backend specialists, blending automation, testing and reproducibility to speed analyst and data-scientist workflows.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Distinction, Master of Science (MSc), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Distinction at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (127)
toolbox10
apache-arrow10
reporter10
parquet10
in-memory10
java10
analytical10
aws-glue10
pipeline9
dynamodb9
lambda9
csv9
aurora9
neptune9
amazon-athena9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
moj-analytical-services/s3-proxy-webapp-template
Aug 2019 - Jun 2021
Static website template - that gets its content from S3
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 11 months
aws
moj-analytical-services/mojap-arrow-pd-parser
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Conforms pandas to "correct" datatypes to ensure data in/out using CSV, JSONL and Parquet is read the same (using arrow).
Contributions:6 releases, 48 reviews, 64 commits in 10 months
csvpythondatacorrectparquet
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