Somtochi Onyekwere
Nigeria
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Top SchoolSomtochi Onyekwere is a backend-focused software engineer with eight years of experience building and hardening cloud-native infrastructure, GitOps tooling, and developer workflows. He has shipped production improvements and security/metrics features across prominent open-source projects such as FluxCD, Kubernetes utilities, and Flagger, and contributed front-end tests and UI work to CC Search and Music Blocks. At Weaveworks and Fly.io he bridged DevOps and platform engineering, implementing image overrides, secret decryption, and suspension metrics that improve observability and secure deployments. A thinker and tinkerer, he pairs a Georgia Tech MS in Computer Science with hands-on contributions that span controllers, testing automation, and CI-driven delivery—often touching subtle parts of systems like nested tracing and cross-namespace security checks. Based in Nigeria, Somtochi is an active open-source collaborator who brings pragmatic engineering and a habit of improving test coverage and operational visibility in large distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyNanodegree, Front-End Nanodegree, Nanodegree, Front-End Nanodegree at UdacityB. Eng, Electrical Electronics Engineering, B. Eng, Electrical Electronics Engineering at Federal University of Technology Owerri
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Github Skills (44)
unit-testing10
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
javascript10
stackdriver10
tool-kit10
back-end-development10
testing10
progressive-web-apps10
e2e-test10
kustomize10
component-development10
user-interface10
continuous-delivery10
ui-design10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fluxcd/flux2
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Open and extensible continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes. Powered by GitOps Toolkit.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:49 reviews, 89 commits, 99 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Somtochi primarily contributed to validating and improving the core components within the `fluxcd/flux2` repository. They implemented validation logic for components sets, project names, and paths, ensuring correct configuration and deployment. Furthermore, they modified install and bootstrap commands, converting paths and adding checks for existing configurations. Their work directly supports the GitOps workflow of the project.
helmdevopscontinuousgitops-toolkitopenshift
fluxcd/kustomize-controller
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
The GitOps Toolkit Kustomize reconciler
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 16 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Somtochi primarily contributed to the `kustomize-controller` project by implementing features related to image overrides and secret decryption. Their work included adding new types to the API specification, implementing the image override functionality within the controller's generator, and integrating tests to validate the image replacement and decryption transformations. These contributions involved modifying core components and adding new functionality to handle image transformations and secret handling.
cuelanghelmgitops-toolkitk8skubernetes
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