Kenya

Site Reliability

Business Transformation

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

Higher Diploma

John Mburu

Engineering Manager

Critical-thinking

Team player

Leadership

Cloud computing

Information architecture

Python

Docker

GitHub

Jira

Notion

- Provides leadership to 23 members in 5 teams responsible for driving scale and Innovation of DevOps and automation for the environments that support the organization’s core application systems used by clients across 35 Countries in Africa, processing over US$1 Billion worth of monthly transactions. 
- Principally responsible for the organization’s Public and Private Cloud Infrastructure, Release Engineering, Site Reliability and Data Engineering
- Rebuilt the Infrastructure environment on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud that helped scaled the platform by 100x
- Part of the team that helped migrate 90% of services from Legacy in-country Infrastructure to the AWS Cloud
- Expanded Platform footprint to support Hybrid deployments in Tanzania and Egypt

- Lead Cloud Architect responsible for the setup design and maintenance of computing infrastructure serving 18 Markets across Africa 
- Managed a team of 6 staff members principally responsible for managing public cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS), managing on-premise private cloud infrastructure, SQL database administration, network routing and network security
- Spearheaded the migration of production services for 11 countries to the AWS Cloud
- Redesign of the compute architecture allowing the platform to scale 10x

- Principal for the On-Premise Cloud Infrastructure, Network Infrastructure and related services
- Created a platform for deploying virtual ISPs with Juniper Networks and Allot Communications LTD
- Migrated a Wireless Internet service provider (WISP) serving >30,000 subscribers to a Virtual ISP platform

- Principally responsible for the Core IP Network for both Data and Video Access layer (HFC and GPON) infrastructure platforms
- Managed ~50 technical operations staff.

- Managed the technical support team 
- Created a Media Platform focused on providing live streaming for TV services providers
- Principal for the Network Infrastructure services

- Performed various roles from a technical support engineer to the Head of Network Operations
- Led the core network engineering team that helped scale the network to support over 80K subscribers
- Lead Network Architect responsible for design, planning and scaling of the Wananchi Group IP network increasing capacity 30x
- Managed the implementation of key projects as part of the first triple-play networks in Kenya. These included a New Conditional Access System for the HFC Platform, a Low-cost Set-top Box for the DTH platform, Next Generation Set-top Boxes for the HFC and DTH Platforms, Optimization of the IP network Backbone

Skills: Infrastructure Management · Network Infrastructure · Information Security · Triple Play · Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) · Enterprise IT Infrastructure · System Administration · Network Design · Network Engineering · Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial (HFC) · Voice over IP (VoIP) · Network Security · IP Routing · Virtual Private Network (VPN) · Telecommunications · Linux System Administration · Juniper Networks Products · DOCSIS · IP Multicast · Broadcast Engineering · Optical Transmission

Skills: Network Infrastructure · Triple Play · Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) · Enterprise IT Infrastructure · Network Design · Network Engineering · Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial (HFC) · Voice over IP (VoIP) · Network Security · IP Routing · Virtual Private Network (VPN) · Telecommunications · Juniper Networks Products · DOCSIS · IP Multicast · Broadcast Engineering

Skills: Network Infrastructure · Network Design · Network Engineering · Voice over IP (VoIP) · Network Security · IP Routing · Telecommunications · Juniper Networks Products · DOCSIS · Broadcast Engineering

-Provide customer support for various client needs

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