Solomon Sirak
Global Technology Operations Manager
Greater Mexico City, State of Mexico
Summary
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Top SchoolSolomon Sirak is a technology operations leader with nine years of experience building and securing global IT services for international development organizations, currently managing CIMMYT’s Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Service Desk and regional IT teams from Greater Mexico City. He combines hands-on engineering roots—evident from back-end contributions to the Dataverse open-source research repository improving error handling and identifier registration—with strategic delivery of ISO 27001-aligned controls, disaster recovery, and service governance across 15+ country offices. Solomon has a track record of standardizing and modernizing distributed environments through automation and cloud adoption while balancing risk, cost, and vendor performance. His background in implementing nationwide government systems and cross-regional capacity building gives him a rare blend of technical depth and pragmatic stakeholder management.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science, Computer science at HiLCoE School of computer science and technologyInformation Technology Management, Information Technology Management at IU International University of Applied Sciences
Amharic, English
Github Skills (5)
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
IQSS/dataverse
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Open source research data repository software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 6 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Solomon primarily focused on enhancing error handling and improving the structure of the Dataverse publishing process. They modified error messages to be more informative and incorporated the name of the registration service. Furthermore, the user added provider information methods for various ID services (Handle, EZID, DataCite), including the implementation of new handle registration logic and updating the handle index from JVM. These changes suggest a focus on improving the robustness and extensibility of the data publishing workflow within the Dataverse application.
research-datadata-repositoryopendataresearch-data-repositorycreative-commons
solhm/dataverse
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
publishresearch-datadatadata-repositorydata-science
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