Obakeng Mosadi

Obakeng Mosadi

Site Reliability Engineering in South Africa

About

I currently work as a site reliability engineer at Zappi focusing on developer workflow automation, managing infrastructure and observability.

Side Projects

2024

This is an implementation of redis server in Go based off of Coding Challenges.

2024
ccwc

Unix command line tool wc.

2024

CLI tool that auto-generates Docker image for you by reading your source directory.

2022

goodmatch is a javascript library that allows you to match two players for a tennis match using their names.

Writing

2024

A primer on cloud networking.

2023

This week we take a look at 4 open source projects, understand device management at Netflix and how ChatGPT could save your job.

2023

This week's newsletter brings you Facebook's source control system, a look into networking in Google's Chrome and a spotlight on a South African startup.

2022

This newsletter issue is focused on orchestration of secrets, containers and data.

2022

You’re where you need to be.

At the right time.

It doesn’t feel like it because you’re watching everyone else and you think you’re supposed to be where they are.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
Cape Town, South Africa
  • Designing, building, and maintaining the core infrastructure used by all of the development teams. (AWS)
  • Building and maintaining internal tooling to automate deployments.
  • Working closely with the security team to configure for secure infrastructure.
  • Cross-functional collaboration with security & product to ensure platform reliability.
  • Participating in on-call rotation.
  • Sharing knowledge via run-books.
  • Tools: Terraform, Kubernetes, Github Actions, CircleCI, Docker
  • Cloud: AWS
  • Languages: Golang, Ruby
2022 — 2022
South Africa (remote)
  • Active research on Taro-protocol for multi-asset Bitcoin and Lightning to facilitate payments to staff and partners through Bitcoin.
  • Built virtual expo that allows companies to recruit via Web & WhatsApp channels.
  • Performed security audits.
  • Designed & implemented back-end plugins that allowed staff to fetch various kinds of data from the database.
  • Mentored junior members of the team.
  • Gather requirements for design projects and implement them onto the platform.
2020 — 2021
Craighall, South Africa
  • Performed weekly security audits on the platform.
  • Actively interface with customers to gather client requirements and provide support.
  • Designed and deployed custom websites for insurance clients.
  • Onboarding enterprise clients onto the company platform.
  • Cleaning and maintaining customer data.
  • Monitoring server usage and troubleshooting server issues.
  • Ensuring platform data is backed up.
  • Tools: AWS Lightsail
  • Languages: PHP

Education

2015 — 2019
Bachelor of Information Technology at University of the Free State
Bloemfontein, Free State

Majored in Computer Science & Business Management

Contact

Twitter