Kennedy Kori
Platform Engineer
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolKennedy Kori is a Platform Engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems, APIs, and cloud-native platforms, currently driving serverless and autoscaling adoption at Savannah Informatics. He combines strong Python, Java and TypeScript skills with hands-on DevOps, MLOps and data engineering—having migrated most HTTP workloads to Knative, rolled out KEDA and enforced mTLS via Istio across clusters. Kennedy has a track record of designing resilient distributed data integration for unreliable networks, deploying Hetzner bare-metal and multi-cloud containerized fleets, and creating tooling that accelerated health-data workflows in remote settings. He also builds developer-facing tools and CLIs, authors standard Helm charts and container optimizations, and is developing an open-source ETL toolkit to standardize pipeline workflows. A self-described geek who enjoys tackling complex engineering problems, he blends pragmatic infrastructure work with thoughtful automation and a passion for open-source.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education at Rongai Boys Secondary SchoolBachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering at Egerton University
Github Skills (46)
release-management10
changelog10
publish10
package10
semantic-release10
release-automation10
rocket9
automation9
react-notifications-component9
cli9
react-notifications8
jsdelivr7
react-component7
utility6
evaluation6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
savannahghi/sghi-commons
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:18 releases, 1 review, 87 PRs in 1 year 1 month
savannahghi/sghi-etl-commons
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Collection of utilities for working with SGHI ETL Workflows.
Contributions:5 releases, 75 PRs, 117 pushes in 10 months
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