Ronald Ekambi
Senior Software Engineer II - AI Team at honeycomb.io
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRonald Ekambi is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems, observability tooling, and AI-driven features, currently contributing to Honeycomb's AI team in Ottawa. He has a strong security and distributed-systems background from work on HashiCorp Consul—adding JWT authentication, RBAC integration, and dynamic JWKS handling—and has also helped harden build/release automation in consul-template. Ronald moves fluidly between infrastructure, backend services, and developer-facing dashboards (noted by his Honeycomb and GitHub work), and has shipped production systems at companies from CircleCI to Wealthsimple. He embraces continuous learning and often steps outside his comfort zone to solve hard problems, pairing pragmatic engineering with a habit of improving test automation and dependency hygiene. His mix of Cloud-native security, observability, and practical DevOps automation makes him effective at turning complex, distributed requirements into auditable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeProject Management: Practice and Certification - 12M Project Management, Project Management: Practice and Certification - 12M Project Management at McGill University School of Continuing StudiesComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
French, English
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Github Skills (32)
rbac10
service-mesh10
github-ci10
xsd10
cicd10
jwt-authentication10
consul10
go10
xs10
githubaction-workflow10
twitter-bootstrap9
dockers9
docker9
css9
api-gateway9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul-template
Mar 2023 - May 2024
Template rendering, notifier, and supervisor for @HashiCorp Consul and Vault data.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:48 reviews, 70 PRs, 86 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ronald primarily focused on maintaining and updating the repository's build and release processes. Their contributions included adding copyright headers to multiple files, updating the changelog, fixing versioning issues, and bumping dependencies to address security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, they were responsible for fixing test cases and ensuring the project's tests pass. These tasks suggest a focus on automation and infrastructure management.
golanghashicorp-consultemplatingtemplate-renderingvault
hashicorp/consul
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 4 commits, 154 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Ronald primarily contributed to the `agent/xds` package, focusing on enhancements related to the JWT authentication feature within the Consul agent. Their work involved modifying and adding tests to the code, incorporating functionality for handling claims validation, and implementing logic for dynamically creating JWKS clusters. These changes involved updates to the Envoy configuration and RBAC filter integration and were designed to improve the security and flexibility of access control within the Consul service mesh.
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