Ketsia Mbaku
Graduate Student Researcher
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKetsia Mbaku is a software engineer and graduate student researcher in the Greater Seattle Area with three years of experience building scalable backend systems, platform engineering, and data-driven applications. She has practical expertise in C/C++, Go, Bazel, gRPC, CI/CD and distributed systems, and contributed backend and DevOps improvements to the widely used Cadence workflow engine—adding metrics, logging tags, and domain validation. Her industry experience spans platform engineering at Uber, ERP integrations and analytics at Cummins, and web performance work with React and Django, showing a blend of production systems and user-facing optimizations. Now pursuing an MS at the University of Washington with AI/ML and bioinformatics research, she pairs systems-level engineering skills with emerging data science work. Uncommonly, she bridges low-level performance tooling (Bazel, C/C++) with high-level observability and metrics improvements, making her effective at both implementation and operational reliability.
3 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science & Software Engineering, Master of Science Computer Science & Software Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Indiana State UniversityAssociate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Ivy Tech Community College
Github Skills (12)
cadence10
distributed-systems10
orchestration10
workflow-automation10
go10
metric10
logging9
debug8
debugging8
testing8
api-design8
devops8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cadence-workflow/cadence
Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 72 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ketsia focused on implementing and improving metrics related to consistent query per shard within the Cadence workflow engine. They added new metrics, integrated logging with workflow and domain tags, and fixed existing metric implementations. Additionally, the user contributed to domain name validation, ensuring alphanumeric and dash characters were permitted. Furthermore, they were involved in updating the code base to include new fields in the PendingActivityInfo structure related to recording worker identity and a workflow start metric.
cadenceresilientorchestration-engineservice-buslogic
ketsiambaku/cadence
Mar 2023 - Jun 2024
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
Contributions:89 pushes, 53 branches in 1 year 3 months
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