Lemayian Nakolah
Technical Advisor at Kupa Global
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolLemayian Nakolah is a Senior DevOps Engineer with four years of hands-on experience building secure, cloud-native infrastructure and release engineering across fintech and startup environments. He has led the first Cloud Native project at Stanbic Bank Kenya, defined scalable AWS architectures, and owned CI/CD and IaC practices that moved teams to repeatable, auditable deployments. His tenure at companies like ZenBusiness, Twiga Foods, and The Noodle Companies showcases expertise across AWS and GCP, application observability, security initiatives (including ISO-related work), and production SRE practices. Currently advising Kupa Global and working with Semata.ai, he blends technical leadership with practical delivery in emerging markets from Nairobi. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and complementary certificates in IoT and mobile development, reflecting a curiosity for both infrastructure and product-facing concerns. Notably, he pairs strong release engineering instincts with a track record of turning manual ops into automated, secure pipelines that scale.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)Certificate Mobile Software Development and Entrepreneurship, Certificate Mobile Software Development and Entrepreneurship at Emobilis Institute Certificate Internet of Things, Certificate Internet of Things at Strathmore UniversityHigh School KCSE, High School KCSE at Molo Academy
English, Kiswahili, maasai
Github Skills (20)
pipeline8
continuous-deployment7
argoproj7
kubernetes7
continuous-delivery7
helm7
charts7
docker7
devops6
cicd6
k8s5
gitops5
cd5
kustomize4
argo4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
zenbusiness/fourkeys
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 2 months
argoproj/argo-helm
May 2022 - May 2022
ArgoProj Helm Charts
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
chartshelmhelm-chartsargoprojkubernetes
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