Kojo Ampia-Addison

Senior DevOps Engineer

Kojo Ampia-Addison
Vienna, Austria

Experience

Jun 2022 - Aug 2023
1 year 3 months

Senior DevOps Engineer

Accenture

STI Consultant at Accenture

Application Migration to Openshift PaaS Platform.

Tasks include:

  • Designing Custom Metrics for SLI and SLO
  • Monitoring with ELK, Prometheus and Grafana
  • CI-CD Pipelines with Jenkins
  • Performance analysis and improvements

Tech stack:

  • Kubernetes
  • Openshift console
  • Jenkins Groovy
  • PromQL
  • Bitbucket
  • ELK & Opentelemetry on Openshift PaaS

Environment:

  • Teams
  • Confluence
  • Jira
  • IBM ALM
  • Scrum
Mar 2022 - Present
3 years

Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead

Abofonsa Mobile Health Service

Web Application Platform - Portal (General Dashboard, Role Based Dashboards) Near-Real Time communication brokerage platform supporting a mobile health service.

Tech stack:

  • Java 17
  • JHipster Spring Boot Cloud
  • Microservices
  • Apache Kafka
  • Camel
  • ELK Stack
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • MongoDB
  • Maven
  • Lucidchart
  • OWASP T10
  • Typescript Angular 17
  • Maven 3.5
  • Bootstrap
  • Docker
  • Websocket
  • Hibernate

Environment:

  • Confluence
  • Jira
  • Bitbucket
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Jenkins
  • Portainer
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
4 months

Senior Software Engineer

Swiss Railways (SBB)

Fincons Consultant at Swiss Railways (SBB)

Stabilization and Tooling. Analyzing and improving existing tools for ensuring software stability and quality.

Tech stack:

  • Python 3.9
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Bokeh Visualization
  • Eclipse RCP
  • Java 8

Environment:

  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • SAFE
  • Confluence
  • Jira
  • Bitbucket
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
2 years 5 months

Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead

Bedrock Insurance Ghana Limited

Web Application comprising dashboards (Operations, Business Admin and Customer) and public facing website.

Tech stack:

  • Java 11
  • Spring Boot cloud
  • Netflix Microservices
  • Spring JWT Security
  • Websocket
  • MongoDB
  • ELK
  • Apache Kafka
  • Typescript Angular 10
  • Bootstrap 4
  • Maven 3.5
  • Bitbucket
  • Jira
  • Jenkins
  • Confluence
  • Lucidchart
  • Owasp T10 compliant
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

Environment:

  • Confluence
  • Jira
  • Bitbucket
  • Scrum
  • Jenkins
  • Portainer
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
2 years 9 months

Monitoring & DevOps Engineer

Austrian Railways (ÖBB)

T-Systems Consultant at Austrian Railways (ÖBB)

Ticketshop Operations Monitoring. Here I build Monitoring dashboards using open source tools, as well customized extensions, notifications and alert configurations.

Tech stack:

  • Elasticsearch
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • PromQL
  • Kubernetes
  • Jenkins
  • JHipster - Spring Boot Angular Monolith
  • MongoDB
  • OracleDB
  • PostGres DB
  • Angular

Environment:

  • Scrum
  • Classic
  • Confluence
  • Jira
  • Bitbucket
Jan 2013 - Feb 2018
5 years 2 months

Systems and Software Engineer

Thales Austria GmbH

Technology Research, Development Planning, Project Management Assistance, Project Implementation, Testing, Documentation and Presentation of state of the art technology use cases.

Tech stack:

  • ELK Stack
  • MongoDB
  • Hibernate
  • Apache OSGI
  • MQ
  • Camel
  • RedisMQ
  • XML
  • JSON
  • SpringMVC
  • Java 8
  • Tomcat 8
  • TomEE 8
  • WebSocket
  • JMS
  • HTML 5
  • AngularJS
  • SCSS
  • Angular
  • Maven
  • Spring STS
  • JHipster
  • GeoServer
  • Cloud Computing
  • GNS3
  • Redhat ESB
  • Spring Security
  • Snort
  • Suricata
  • IDMEF
  • MulVal
  • OpenSCAP
  • CELENEC

Environment:

  • Scrum
  • Doors
  • Subversion
  • Wiki
  • Redmine
  • GitLab-CE
  • OpenLDAP
Nov 2011 - Dec 2013
1 year 2 months

Software Developer

Secured Business Austria (SBA)

Turning research work of my fellow colleges into secure and robust Software Applications.

Together with my fellow team members, I assisted in planning, implementation, testing and documentation of these products.

Tech stack:

  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • CQRS
  • JQuery
  • CSS
  • Bootstrap
  • MsSQL Server
  • NGinX
  • Tomcat 6
  • XML
  • XSLT
  • Visual Studio

Environment:

  • Scrum
  • Trello
  • Subversion
  • Wiki
  • Redmine
Dec 2009 - Nov 2011
2 years

Software Developer

Newcon / T-Mobile Austria

Operations Support and Ongoing Support

As the representative consultant for Newcon, I monitor and oversee the routine operations of the Interconnection Billing Process implementation on Mediation Zone. As part of my duties, I recognize and suggest new improvements, analyze and optimize processes and implement change strategies.

New Generation Interconnect Billing Mediation Device Project Defects fixing, Analysis and Implementation of Change Requests and Execution of New LOB Processes.

Tech stack:

  • Java 6
  • Java Swing AWT
  • Oracle DB
  • PL/SQL
  • JDBC
  • MediationZone
  • Cognos Reporting

Environment:

  • Subversion
  • VPN
  • Wiki
  • MS-Project
  • SharePoint
  • Lotus Notes
Jul 2009 - Sep 2009
3 months

Software Developer

T-Mobile Austria

Optimization of the Referential Maintenance tools Introduction to Interconnect Billing – Mediation Zone Processes

Feb 2009 - Mar 2009
2 months

Software Developer

T-Mobile Austria

Implementation of Time Zones tool in the Referential Maintenance tool using Java 6, Java Swing AWT and Oracle DB.

Jul 2008 - Sep 2008
3 months

Software Developer

T-Mobile Austria

Implementation of Network and Price Maintenance Referential tools. Planning and implementation of the Network and Price Maintenance Referential tools using Java 6, Java Swing AWT and Oracle DB.

Feb 2008 - Mar 2008
2 months

Software Developer

T-Mobile Austria

Implementation of Numbering maintenance tools Planning, analysis and implementation of the Referential Numbering maintenance tools using Java 6, Java Swing AWT and Oracle DB.

Aug 2007 - Nov 2007
4 months

Software Developer

T-Mobile Austria

Project definition, analysis and modeling of the GUI Referential maintenance tools

General Requirement analysis, Use case modeling, System architecture, Framework definition and implementation of the GUI maintenance tool. Requirements, Design and implementation of the Trunk Allocation and SS7 trunk mapping maintenance tools.

Aug 2006 - Jan 2007
6 months

Software Developer

Environmental Software Services

Webmaster and Application Content Developer

Advanced Computer Applications for resource management. Development of Java middleware, PHP server-side processing, CGI server-side processing in C, Analysis, Planning, implementation, testing and management of deliverables and intranet applications.

Sep 2002 - Oct 2009
7 years 2 months

Freelance - IT Specialist and Website Designer

Personal Computer Assembling, Hardware replacements, Home and Small Office Networking, Software installations, Windows Maintenance (Troubleshooting, Virus cleaning etc…), Help Desk (Teaching new users MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver and other Multimedia Applications)

Web – Applications (Baby Beauty Salon, Ghana Minstrel Choir, Ghana Youth, Extended Management Services)

Event Planning, Management, Advertising and Publication.

Jul 2001 - Sep 2002
1 year 3 months
Ghana

Systems Administrator

Web.IT Computer Solutions

IT – Systems Administration and Application Programming

Development of web-based user interface for Pan African Orchestra, Connection Ghana, Peace Pharmaceuticals and KMART Travel and Tours. Networking, Systems Support and Help Desk solutions for several Internet Cafes, Realtors and Advertising Businesses.

Jul 2000 - Jun 2001
1 year
Ghana

Software Developer

The S.O.F.T. Tribe

Trainee, Web Application, Graphic Design

Ghana Law Search Web Application Portal, HipLife Stars Music Portal.

Aug 1997 - Dec 1999
2 years 5 months

IT - Office Helpdesk

Kwik Link Communication Services

Graphic Designing and Systems Administration and Support.

Mar 1996 - Dec 1997
10 months
Akosombo, Ghana

Document Assistant

Asuogyaman District Council

National Service duties doing Data collection, collation and office organization.

Summary

I am an IT – Specialist in the areas of Cloud Secured Software & Systems Engineering, Business Engineering, Web Engineering, Document Engineering and Database Engineering with excellent skills in User – Interface Design, Billing – System Processes, Business Intelligence, Databases, System Architectures, Logic, Algorithms and Data Structures.

Languages

English
Native
German
Advanced
French
Elementary
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Oct 2004 - Jun 2010

Vienna University of Technology

Information Security, Advanced Information Security, Software & Systems Engineering, Business Engineering, Web Engineering and · Vienna, Austria

Oct 2002 - Jun 2004

Pre-University School of the Vienna Universities

Mathematics, German and Physics · Vienna, Austria

Oct 1993 - Jun 1995

Mfantsipim School

Advanced Level General Certificate of Education in Mathematics, Geography, Economics and General Knowledge · Cape Coast, Ghana