Gibson Wasukira

I am a (Big) Data Engineer, passionate about building data platforms for data unification and enrichment to support analytics initiatives

I am an open source enthusiast , Ex-Cricketer, Love indie music, Love Golf with a 27 handicap .. :)

Skillset

• Programming: Java, Python, Scala , Shell scripting, SQL, PL/SQL,T-SQL
• AWS Ecosystem
• Container Orchestration: EKS, AKS, Openshift
• Workflow Orchestration: Airflow
• Bigdata Ecosystem: Hadoop,Spark (Databricks), Hive
• CI/CD: AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, FluxCD, Azure DevOps, Kustomize
• Data Lakehouse: S3, ADLS, Trino(Presto),Iceberg,Delta tables (Databricks)
• Data Warehouse: Postgres, Redshift
• Data Ingestion: Kafka, Singer (Stitch),Apache Nifi
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, BELK (Beats, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

Experience

Senior Data Engineer at Finclusion Group

• Architecting, Implementation, and maintenance of the company financial analytics data platform; a multi-cloud (AWS/Azure) IaC managed platform
• Dimension Modelling, Data warehouse and Lake-house implementation
• Data pipelines development and testing; ELT/ETL
• Implementation of Data discovery, Governance and Subscription strategies
• Development and maintenance of Business Reports and Dashboards
• Data Unification from applications ranging from Accounting, Payroll to ERP systems

Senior Data Engineer at Awamo GmbH

• Developed Data migration solution for on-boarding new clients’ data onto the core-banking SaaS platform
• Built and maintained the company data platform; AWS Native; IaC managed
• Executed DevOps on Data Platform
• Built Dimension Models and Implemented Data warehouse
• Implemented Data discovery and Governance strategies
• Developed business Reports and Dashboards
• Developed SaaS Tenant Analytics platform

Bigdata Consultant at ISBAT University

• Designed and delivered data science and big data ecosystem teaching programs; Prepared Labs,Notes and powerpoint presentations
• Assessed student’s assignments
• Mentored Students
• Guided and Supervised Dissertation Projects

Software Developer - Data platform at Airtel Telecom

• Built data pipelines to support real-time reporting/analytics, fraud detection, and observability
• Overall Infrastructure architectural design and implementation
• Developed metered usage-based corporate data products
• Developed Web-based, Data and Voice promotions products
• Developed Business support systems to enable customer query resolution.
• REST API development for third party integration with Airtel systems.

Data Engineer at IBM

• Data/Dimension modelling and data warehousing
• Database administration
• ETL pipeline development and Testing
• Batch and Stream Processing
• Dashboard and report automation to support marketing and sales strategies
• Infrastructure Deployment and Maintenance