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Elvis Gicharu

Elvis Gicharu

Big Data Engineer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Big Data Engineer | Cloud Engineer | AWS | SQL | Python |Pyspark | Airflow | Snowflake | AI

  • Education

    • Moringa School

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    • ExploreAI Academy

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      Data engineering

      -Building python functions that calculate/analyze data.– Writing SQL Queries that Normalize the database of the client’s store inventory. – Hosting static websites to the cloud and adding intelligent email response functionality. – Setting up an on-premise source connection alongside with streaming data connection. – Migrating an on-premise application to the cloud. – Ingesting and transforming stock market data into readable, reliable and robust format

  • Experience

    • ExploreAI

      Jun 2023 - Jan 2024
      Big Data Engineer

      Developed a student tracking dashboard that monitors performance and identifyat-risk students. The dashboard assists head teachers, facilitators, and stakeholders intracking student progress, missed tests, low assessment averages, and low logins. Itprovides insights, notifications, and support to enhance student outcomes. The projectaims to improve student performance tracking and reporting, with potential forAI-based predictions of at-risk students.

    • CCI Global

      Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
      Call Center Representative

      Worked for Jet blue Airlines campaign calls and Instacart on calls and chats respectively.

    • Phoenix_ke_analytics

      Jan 2024 - Jul 2024
      Big Data Engineer Mentor

    • Ajira Digital Program

      Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
      Aws re/Start Ajira Learner

      Applied scripting methodologies to automate IT administrative related tasks.• Monitored costs and optimized cloud deployment expenses against business needs.• Conducted deep-dive hands-on training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering oralready using AWS.• Got hands-on expertise setting up and configuring AWS cloud solutions, as well as professional skills. • Introduction to cloud foundations, Linux and Bash scripting, networking, security, Python programming, databases, and, of course, AWS cloud solutions are all addressed in the program.• Learned how to use AWS' fundamental compute, storage, and networking services, such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, Cloud Formation, RDS, and Route 53.• Strong verbal and writing communication abilities, particularly the ability to convey technical terms and information to non-technical end users. Show less

    • Safaricom PLC

      Oct 2024 - now
      SRE Engineer (Cloud and Container Platforms)

  • Licenses & Certifications