
Godfrey Ogembo
Cloud
engineer
Kisumu, Kenya
Contact: ogembogodfrey75@gmail.com
About
Cloud Engineer with 2+ years of experience in backend development and Cloud Infrastructure automation. Passionate about distributed collaboration, community mentorship, and solving complex problems from first principles.
Experience
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Community Moderator @ EveOps - Everything operations
Kenya - RemoteSummary:
- Moderated and guided a community of 300+ cloud engineers, coordinating technical events and skill development initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Community Leadership: Moderated and directed a community of 300+ cloud engineers and enthusiasts, guiding overall strategy and streamlining the onboarding process for newcomers.
- Technical Event Management: Coordinated 3 technical webinars (personally hosting 1) over a two-month period focusing on AWS Zero Trust architecture, cloud deployment, and agentic IaC, averaging 60 live attendees per session and driving 30+ new community registrations.
- Skill Development Initiatives: Co-managed a 30-day Terraform challenge, providing ongoing technical support and code review to help members build practical infrastructure-as-code proficiency.
- AWS
- Terraform
- Community
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Founding Engineer @ Victoria Sentinel
Kisumu, Kenya - OnsiteSummary:
- Engineered and deployed a highly-available Python backend on AWS to facilitate real-time IoT data ingestion.
Responsibilities:
- Engineered and deployed a highly-available Python backend (Flask) on AWS (EC2, S3, API Gateway) to facilitate real-time IoT data ingestion and visualization for pilot fish farms.
- Implemented scalable architecture and employed Agile development practices to manage the full project lifecycle from concept to production.
- Ensured system resilience and performance through rigorous testing and Linux-based server administration.
- Python
- Flask
- AWS
- Linux
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Coding Instructor @ KidsCodelab
Homabay, Kenya - On-siteSummary:
- Directed data-driven, hands-on programming labs and coding symposia for 60+ learners, driving strong technical engagement and foundational skill development.
Responsibilities:
- Event Coordination & Outreach: Organized coding symposia and "kidathons" across multiple centers in Homa Bay, delivering hands-on technical instruction and career exposure to 61 unique learners per assessment cycle.
- Hands-On Mentorship: Directed project-based programming labs using industry-standard tools like VS Code; achieved a 67% top-tier engagement rating via gamified mechanics and led 84% of students to report strong pride in their technical creations.
- Data-Driven Instruction: Calibrated curriculum difficulty using direct feedback—ensuring 84% of learners found the pacing optimal—and dynamically adapted lesson plans to close identified knowledge gaps in latency, live troubleshooting, and machine learning.
- Student Success & Industry Alignment: Fostered early career readiness through local industry connections and insights, achieving a 79% high-clarity rating for instructional delivery while building long-term student resilience.
- Python
- VS Code
- Mentorship
Projects
Developed a containerized backend using modern Python’s FastAPI to support an AI-driven application for cross-border traders in East Africa.
- Integrated Generative AI capabilities to provide real-time, context-aware assistance.
- Focused on high-performance REST APIs and robust data management.
- Python
- FastAPI
- Docker
Skills
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Docker
- Linux/Ubuntu