Ukeme Bassey
Senior Software Engineer at HashiCorp
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolUkeme Bassey is a Senior Software Engineer based in Ottawa with nine years of experience building secure, backend-focused systems and cloud integrations. Currently at HashiCorp, he contributes to Terraform and its providers, improving stability, security (including sensitive-output redaction), and provider capabilities like registry module support. His background spans startups and enterprise teams at Momentive.ai and Nokia, plus a MASc in Electrical/Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, blending research-level rigor with production engineering. Comfortable across backend and DevOps domains, he has a track record of fixing critical cloud integration panics and strengthening test suites, showing attention to both reliability and developer experience. Colleagues describe him as creative and detail-oriented, often surfacing subtle issues before they reach production.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Applied Science (MASc.), Electrical/Computer Engineering, 9.0, Master of Applied Science (MASc.), Electrical/Computer Engineering, 9.0 at University of OttawaKwame Nkrumah' University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
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infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
go10
cloud-services10
cloud-infrastructure10
devops10
terraform10
testing9
cloud-computing9
automation8
automations8
debug8
debugging8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-tfe
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Official HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise provider, maintained by HashiCorp. Provision HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise - with Terraform!
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:146 reviews, 44 commits, 53 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ukeme primarily focused on improving the `terraform-provider-tfe` provider by addressing linting warnings and making various code adjustments. Their contributions included modifying the `resource_tfe_variable.go` and `resource_tfe_workspace.go` files, which suggests an active role in maintaining and enhancing the Terraform provider's functionality. Furthermore, the user integrated support for registry modules, including those lacking VCS, and implemented a new data source for policy sets, showing their work on expanding the provider's capabilities. Several commits also addressed dependencies and the upgrade of `go-tfe` packages.
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hashicorp/terraform
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 9 commits, 14 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ukeme's commits focus on improving the stability and security of the Terraform project. They addressed a cloud integration panic by fixing a backend configuration issue. They also implemented the redaction of sensitive output values within run logs to enhance security. Furthermore, the user contributed to test suite improvements, including fixing tests related to initialization and view components.
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