Lukonde Mwila
Senior Product Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Johannesburg, Gauteng, United States
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Top SchoolLukonde Mwila is a Senior Product Manager at AWS with 8 years of hands-on experience spanning application development, cloud engineering, and DevOps. He previously served as a Senior Developer Advocate for Amazon EKS, where he focused on Kubernetes, GitOps, serverless and Kubernetes security while producing talks, webinars and technical content for the cloud-native community. Lukonde combines product strategy with practitioner skills—he contributes full-stack and DevOps work such as a multi-container Nginx/React/Node/Mongo app that includes Terraform-based CI/CD and Docker integrations. An active educator and community builder, he has created an AWS-focused Udemy course and served as a HashiCorp Ambassador and DevOps advisor. Based in Johannesburg, he brings a developer-first perspective to product decisions and a habit of turning demos and tutorials into production-ready IaC and pipelines. He’s a lifelong learner who bridges developer advocacy and product management to make cloud-native tooling more accessible and reliable.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences Computer Science at Monash University
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
docker10
back-end-development10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
nodejs10
backend10
devops10
testing9
mongodb-database9
jtest9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LukeMwila/multi-container-nginx-react-node-mongo
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Multi container application with Nginx, React, Node and Mongo DB. This repository also contains Terraform IaC (Infrastructure as Code) for a CICD pipeline to build and push images to DockerHub.
Role in this project:
Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Lukonde contributed to both the backend and frontend aspects of the multi-container application. They refactored the backend configuration, implemented testing for both client and backend components, and added a test route. Crucially, they introduced infrastructure-as-code (IaC) with Terraform for a CI/CD pipeline, including notifications through Slack, demonstrating DevOps skills. Furthermore, they integrated MongoDB into the Docker Compose setup, adding initialization and persistence.
nginxnginx-reactmulti-containerpushaws
LukeMwila/microservice-orders
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:50 commits, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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