Summary
Sanya Khasenye is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Harborough, UK with a long-running Microsoft-centred systems background and over two decades of hands-on experience across cloud, DevOps and application development. Currently at Kainos, he architects and oversees cloud adoption and infrastructure orchestration for public and private sector clients, blending Windows expertise with Linux and AWS automation. His career traces a rare mix of roles from site reliability and lead cloud engineering to bespoke PHP/MySQL development and enterprise Active Directory and Exchange migrations, showing an ability to move between high-level strategy and low-level scripting. A practical ops evangelist and contributor on GitHub, he combines infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and performance right-sizing to deliver resilient, cost-effective platforms. Notably, he has run complex cross-border migrations and built custom operational tooling that reduced downtime and manual toil for mission-critical systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma, Computer Systems Design, Distinction, Advanced Diploma, Computer Systems Design, Distinction at Computer Training Centre
DevOps Engineering on AWS, DevOps Engineering on AWS at QA, London
Red Hat Linux Systems Administration, Red Hat Linux Systems Administration at New Horizons
English, Kiswahili