Affan Kareem

Experience

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  Lagos Television

  May 2015 - Dec 2015

  Information Technology Support Technician

  o Skilled at performing system optimization (defrag, disk cleanup, backup).o Able to troubleshoot, install, and maintain peripherals.o Set up, check, and maintain a range of private computing and office network systems.o Router IOS Backup and Recovery.o Setting up Serial and Ethernet Interfaces.o Routing Protocol Configurations.o Switching, Standard Access-list, Extended Access-list, and Vlans Configurations.o Working knowledge of Voice over IP (VoIP)o Knowledge of LAN technologies, Switches, Cables, Bridges.o Experience of IP addressing, administrating subnets and various routing models Show less

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  Federal University

  Nov 2016 - Aug 2018

  Research Assistant

  o Developed numerical models to simulate fluid dynamics in pipeline systems.o Conducted feasibility studies for implementing advanced control strategies.o Developed and validated numerical models for [specific scientific problem.o Conducted sensitivity analyses and optimization studies.

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  BOLKINGS LLC

  Aug 2018 - Mar 2020

  Data Analyst

  o Develop and maintain rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis integrating various reporting components from multiple data sources.o Reported quarterly data analysis findings to the management to use in making organizational and improvement decisions.o Develop a data visualisation dashboard for each department to aid quick and efficient insight extraction

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  Seplac Technology

  Apr 2020 - now

  o Assisted the domain architecture team with solution planning, development, management, monitoring and continual operation.o Successfully created and maintained an automated CI/CD pipeline for code deployment using varieties of technologies, eliminating 80% of manual work and improvement of work efficiency.o Managed and maintained cloud deployment of Kubernetes infrastructure (EKS), with application deployment into different Clusters/Nodes.o Built different automation services for different departments of the company through a combination of ansible, terraform, and other cloud-native services.o Experienced in designing, deploying and maintaining AWS solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, and Auto Scaling groups.o Develop reference architectures and proof of concept implementation of the cloud security environment.o Build and managed, stable & secure AWS cloud infrastructure/networking using IaC. Show less o Implement data transformation processes to clean, normalize, and structure data for analysis and machine learning.o Integrated a data warehouse from AWS to ELK, providing Kibana dashboards for better data visualization.o Established CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab, incorporating Docker containers to streamline deployments.o Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) or ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) pipelines to process and move data from source systems to data warehouses or data lakes.o Monitor data pipelines and data quality, using metrics and alerts to identify issues and ensure reliable data processing.o Collaborated with external vendors to boost model performance by integrating additional data sources.o Contributed to the team's CI/CD skills by sharing expertise on Jenkins and GitLab Show less

  • Cloud Engineer

    Jun 2022 - now

  • Data Engineer

    Apr 2020 - Jun 2022