Kwabena Aning
Senior Data Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKwabena Aning is a Senior Data Engineer based in London with 13 years of professional experience and over two decades of software development practice dating back to 1998. He blends hands-on engineering and technical leadership across data and distributed systems, having led teams and built data products at NatWest Boxed, Zego, Elsevier and American Express. A researcher pursuing a PhD in distributed and concurrent software design, he brings academic rigour to pragmatic system architecture with a special interest in the Actor Model. His toolbox spans Scala, Kotlin, Python, Spark and Kafka, and he has deep experience integrating services and improving near real-time messaging platforms. Beyond engineering, he has a track record of growing teams and improving development lifecycles, from CRM and automation platforms to large-scale data pipelines. Colleagues describe him as intellectually curious about new technology and skilled at applying open standards to connect legacy and modern systems.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, Infromation Systems Research, Viva Pending, PhD, Computer Science, Infromation Systems Research, Viva Pending at Birkbeck, U. of LondonBA, Sociology and Psychology, BA, Sociology and Psychology at University of GhanaMSc, Information Systems Management, Merit, MSc, Information Systems Management, Merit at London South Bank UniversitySSCE, Humanities, SSCE, Humanities at Achimota School
French
Github Skills (40)
metadata8
plugin7
linkedin7
cryptocurrency6
stellar6
data-catalog6
blockchain6
bitcoin6
full-stack6
data-governance6
remote-actors6
flutter5
metadata-management5
sdk5
data-management5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mildlyskilled/mildlyskilled-blog
Jul 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:46 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
mildlyskilled/akka-irc
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 1 year
scalaircakka
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