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John (Kojo) Ampia-Addison

Senior DevOps Engineer

John Ampia-Addison
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Vienna, Austria

Experience

Jul 2024 - Present
1 year 9 months
Vienna, Austria
Hybrid

Software Developer and DevOps Engineer

Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ)

Expertise details
Position Summary
Software Developer and DevOps Engineer at Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ)
Industries
Government and Administration
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations

Refactoring and improving core APIs; implementing client change requests. Setting up metrics, traces, and logs monitoring infrastructure to support operations. Designing GitOps deployment and infrastructure as code. Applications and Systems Configuration in ArgoCD and Openshift. Confluence documentation of design, approach, and solution. Tech Stack: Java 8 & 21, Spring framework, JSP, Javascript, Bash Scripts, SQL, Grafana Stack, Opentelemetry, Docker, DB2, Maven, Kubernetes Kompose.

Jun 2022 - Aug 2023
1 year 3 months

Senior DevOps Engineer

Accenture

Expertise details
Position Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer at Accenture
Industries
Information Technology
Professional Services
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations
  • Migrated applications to OpenShift PaaS
  • Designed custom metrics for SLI and SLO
  • Implemented monitoring with ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins
  • Performed performance analysis and improvements
  • Tech stack: Kubernetes, OpenShift console, Jenkins Groovy, PromQL, Bitbucket, ELK, OpenTelemetry on OpenShift PaaS
  • Environment: Teams, Confluence, Jira, IBM ALM, Scrum
Mar 2022 - Present
4 years 1 month

Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead (Pro-bono)

Abofonsa Mobile Health Service

Expertise details
Position Summary
Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead (Pro-bono) at Abofonsa Mobile Health Service
Industries
Healthcare
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
  • Developed a web application platform with general and role-based dashboards
  • Implemented a near-real-time communication brokerage platform supporting mobile health services
  • Tech stack: Java 17, JHipster Spring Boot Cloud, microservices, Apache Kafka, Camel, ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, MongoDB, Maven, Lucidchart, OWASP T10, TypeScript Angular 17, Bootstrap, Docker, WebSocket, Hibernate
  • Environment: Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket, Agile, Scrum, Jenkins, Portainer
  • Website: [link]
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
4 months
Switzerland

Senior Software Engineer

Swiss Railways (SBB)

Expertise details
Position Summary
Senior Software Engineer at Swiss Railways (SBB)
Industries
Transportation
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • Stabilized and enhanced tooling for analyzing crash dumps, restarting processes, and cache loading
  • Tech stack: Python 3.9, Jupyter Notebook, Bokeh for visualization, Eclipse RCP, Java 8
  • Environment: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
2 years 5 months
Ghana

Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead

Bedrock Insurance Ghana Limited

Expertise details
Position Summary
Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead at Bedrock Insurance Ghana Limited
Industries
Insurance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • Built web applications with operations, business administration, and customer dashboards plus a public facing website
  • Tech stack: Java 11, Spring Boot Cloud, Netflix microservices, Spring JWT Security, WebSocket, MongoDB, ELK, Apache Kafka, TypeScript Angular 10, Bootstrap 4, Maven, Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Confluence, Lucidchart, OWASP T10 compliance, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Environment: Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket, Scrum, Jenkins, Portainer
  • Website: [link]
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
2 years 9 months
Austria

Monitoring & DevOps Engineer

Austrian Railways (ÖBB)

Expertise details
Position Summary
Monitoring & DevOps Engineer at Austrian Railways (ÖBB)
Industries
Transportation
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • Built and customized monitoring dashboards for ticketshop operations with revenue assurance, operations channels, payment methods, and product monitoring
  • Integrated communication interfaces, service performance, and error monitoring with notifications and alerts
  • Tech stack: Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus, PromQL, Kubernetes, Jenkins, JHipster (Spring Boot + Angular monolith), MongoDB, OracleDB, PostgreSQL, Angular
  • Environment: Scrum, classic, Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket
Jan 2013 - Feb 2018
5 years 2 months
Austria

Systems and Software Engineer

Thales Austria GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
Systems and Software Engineer at Thales Austria GmbH
Industries
Aerospace and Defense
Business Areas
Product Development
Project Management
Research and Development
  • Conducted technology research, development planning, project management assistance, implementation, testing, documentation, and presentations of state-of-the-art use cases
  • Tech stack: ELK Stack, MongoDB, Hibernate, Apache OSGi, MQ, Camel, RedisMQ, XML, JSON, Spring MVC, Java 8, Tomcat 8, TomEE 8, WebSocket, JMS, HTML5, AngularJS, SCSS, Angular, Maven, Spring STS, JHipster, GeoServer, GNS3, Red Hat ESB, Spring Security, Snort, Suricata, IDMEF, MulVal, OpenSCAP, CENELEC
  • Environment: Scrum, DOORS, Subversion, Wiki, Redmine, GitLab CE, OpenLDAP
Nov 2011 - Dec 2012
1 year 2 months
Austria

Software Developer

Secured Business Austria (SBA)

Expertise details
Position Summary
Software Developer at Secured Business Austria (SBA)
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • Turned research work into secure, robust software applications
  • Assisted in planning, implementation, testing, and documentation
  • Tech stack: ASP.NET, C#, CQRS, jQuery, CSS, Bootstrap, MS SQL Server, NGINX, Tomcat 6, XML, XSLT, Visual Studio
  • Environment: Scrum, Trello, Subversion, Wiki, Redmine
Dec 2009 - Nov 2011
2 years
Austria

Software Developer

Newcon / T-Mobile Austria

Expertise details
Position Summary
Software Developer at Newcon / T-Mobile Austria
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
  • Supported and monitored interconnection billing mediation processes
  • Suggested improvements, analyzed and optimized processes, implemented change strategies
  • Fixed defects, implemented change requests, executed new LOB processes for the New Generation Interconnect Billing Mediation Device project
  • Tech stack: Java 6, Java Swing AWT, Oracle DB, PL/SQL, JDBC, MediationZone, Cognos Reporting
  • Environment: Subversion, VPN, Wiki, MS Project, SharePoint, Lotus Notes
Jul 2009 - Sep 2009
3 months
Austria

Software Developer

T-Mobile Austria

Expertise details
Position Summary
Software Developer at T-Mobile Austria
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations
  • Optimized referential maintenance tools
  • Gained introduction to interconnect billing mediation zone processes
Feb 2009 - Mar 2009
2 months
Austria

Software Developer

T-Mobile Austria

Expertise details
Position Summary
Software Developer at T-Mobile Austria
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • Implemented time zone tool in referential maintenance applications using Java 6, Java Swing AWT, Oracle DB
Jul 2008 - Sep 2008
3 months
Austria

Software Developer

T-Mobile Austria

Expertise details
Position Summary
Software Developer at T-Mobile Austria
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • Developed network and price maintenance referential tools using Java 6, Java Swing AWT, Oracle DB
Feb 2008 - Mar 2008
2 months
Austria

Software Developer

T-Mobile Austria

Expertise details
Position Summary
Software Developer at T-Mobile Austria
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • Implemented numbering maintenance tools including planning, analysis, and development with Java 6, Java Swing AWT, Oracle DB
Aug 2007 - Nov 2007
4 months
Austria

Software Developer

T-Mobile Austria

Expertise details
Position Summary
Software Developer at T-Mobile Austria
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • Defined project requirements, analyzed and modeled GUI referential maintenance tools
  • Designed and implemented trunk allocation and SS7 trunk mapping tools
Aug 2006 - Jan 2007
6 months
Austria

Software Developer

Environmental Software Services

Expertise details
Position Summary
Software Developer at Environmental Software Services
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Developed advanced computer applications for water resource management
  • Built Java middleware, PHP and C CGI server-side processing
  • Managed analysis, planning, implementation, testing, and deliverables for intranet applications
Sep 2002 - Oct 2009
7 years 2 months

IT Specialist and Website Designer

Freelance

Expertise details
Position Summary
IT Specialist and Website Designer at Freelance
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
  • Assembled PCs, replaced hardware, set up home and small office networking, performed software installations and Windows maintenance (troubleshooting, virus cleaning)
  • Provided help desk support and multimedia application training
  • Developed web applications for various clients
  • Planned, managed, advertised, and published events
Jul 2001 - Sep 2002
1 year 3 months
Ghana

Systems Administrator

Web.IT Computer Solutions

Expertise details
Position Summary
Systems Administrator at Web.IT Computer Solutions
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Customer Service
Information Technology
  • Provided IT systems administration and application programming
  • Developed web-based user interfaces for multiple clients
  • Managed networking, systems support, and help desk solutions for internet cafes and businesses
Jul 2000 - Jun 2001
1 year
Ghana

Software Developer Trainee

The S.O.F.T. Tribe

Expertise details
Position Summary
Software Developer Trainee at The S.O.F.T. Tribe
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Developed web application portals and performed graphic design
Aug 1997 - Dec 1999
2 years 5 months
Ghana

IT Office Helpdesk

Kwik Link Communication Services

Expertise details
Position Summary
IT Office Helpdesk at Kwik Link Communication Services
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • Provided graphic design and systems administration support
Mar 1996 - Dec 1996
10 months
Akosombo, Ghana

Document Assistant

Asuogyaman District Council

Expertise details
Position Summary
Document Assistant at Asuogyaman District Council
Industries
Government and Administration
Business Areas
Operations
  • Performed national service duties including data collection, collation, and office organization

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Telecommunication, Healthcare, Transportation, and Government and Administration.

Information Technology
Aerospace and Defense
Telecommunication
Healthcare
Transportation
Government and Administration
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Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development, Operations, Research and Development, and Business Intelligence.

Information Technology
Project Management
Product Development
Operations
Research and Development
Business Intelligence
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Summary

I am an IT – Specialist in the areas of Cloud Secured Software & Systems Engineering, Business Engineering, Web Engineering, Document Engineering and Database Engineering with excellent skills in User – Interface Design, Billing – System Processes, Business Intelligence, Databases, System Architectures, Logic, Algorithms and Data Structures.

Skills

Industry Skills

  • Insurance And Health Using Jhipster Framework To Develop Angular And Spring Boot Industry Microservice Architecture Based Applications For Insurance And Mobile Health Services. As The Lead Technical Engineer In A Small Group Of 4 Engineers, Responsible For The Architecture, Development And Project Management In Addition To Providing Guidance And Mentoring For 3 Junior Developers On The Team.
  • Digital Migration: Migrating Websphere Applications To Openshift Paas In The Modernisation Project Of The Austrian Ministry Of Finance (Bmf) As An Accenture External Devops Engineer In Conjunction With The Austrian National Computer Center - Bundesrechenzentrum (Brz).
  • Sbb - Swiss Railway System Stabilization And Tooling: Building And Improving Tools For Analyzing Crash Dumps, Restarted Processes, Cache Loaders Etc. Using Python, Jupyter Notebook, Java 8 Eclipse Rcp, Jms And Jpa.
  • Systems Monitoring: Öbb – Austrian Railway Ticketing Systems Monitoring, Revenue Assurance, Operations Channels, Payment Methods And Product Monitoring Dashboards; Communication Integration Interfaces, Service Performance And Error Monitoring Dashboards, Using Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana And Customized Graphs, Notification And Alerting.
  • Digital Transformation: Thales Cyberrail, Thales Cisa Demonstrator, Thales Ground Transportation Digital Platform Built On Cloudfoundry, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data Flow And Netflix Microservices.
  • Information Security: Thales Hypervisor, Thales Cyber Defense Center And Thales Scudo Training Demonstrator At Thales Austria Gmbh; Temporal Privilege Escalation, Webcrawler Data Mining And Anovis Systems Implementation At Secured Business Austria (Sba).
  • Telecommunications: User Interface Design, Web Applications Design And Implementation, Mediation, Billing, Data Modeling, Database System Architecture; Interconnection Billing Referential Data Maintenance Tool Design And Implementation At T-mobile, Interconnection Billing Mediation Operations And Development Support At T–mobile Austria.
  • Environmental Industry: Advanced Computer Applications In Water Resource Management At Environmental Software Services Gumpoldskirchen.

Methodical Skills

  • Software Engineering: Software Development Processes, Test Management, Agile And Extreme Programming Methodology, Use Case Analysis, User Interface Design And Modeling.
  • It-infrastructure: Devsecops Cloud Tooling, Requirements Analysis, Data Collection, Collation And Analysis, Network Infrastructure, Archiving Solutions.
  • Project Management: Analysis, Planning, Modeling, Designing, Testing And Documentation Of Projects.
  • Business Processes: Business Process Analysis, Business Reengineering And Implementation.
  • Soft-skills: Conflict Management, Presentational Skills And Spontaneous Availability.

Technological Knowledge

  • Application Frameworks: Jhipster (Expert); Angular Ngx (Expert); Spring Boot (Expert); Spring Cloud Microservice (Expert); Spring Security Framework (Expert); Spring Mvc Framework (Competent); Spring Data Flow (Competent); Pivotal Uaa (Competent).
  • Programming Languages: Java (Expert); Typescript (Expert); Shell Scripting (Bash, Sed, Awk) (Expert); Regular Expression (Competent).
  • Devops Tools: Docker, Kubernetes (Expert); Jenkins Ci-cd (Expert); Helm Charts (Expert); Ansible, Terraform (Competent).
  • Data Streaming & Routing Platforms: Apache Kafka (Expert); Apache Camel (Expert); Apache Mq (Expert).
  • Db-technologies: Nosql (Expert); Hibernate (Expert).
  • Databases: Elasticsearch (Expert); Mongodb (Expert); Postgres (Expert); Oracle (Expert).
  • Db Query Languages: Sql (Expert); Pl/sql (Competent).
  • Application Monitoring: Grafana (Expert); Prometheus (Expert); Loki (Expert); Tempo (Expert); Kibana (Competent); Elasticsearch (Competent); Logstash (Competent); Jaeger (Competent).
  • Cloud Computing: Docker (Iaas) (Expert); Vmware Hypervisor Esxi (Iaas) (Expert); Virtualbox (Iaas) (Expert); Cloudfoundry (Paas) (Expert); Openshift (Paas) (Competent); Amazon Web Service (Paas) (Competent); Google Cloud Compute (Paas) (Competent); Openstack (Iaas) (Experienced).
  • Operating Systems: Linux (Expert); Windows (Expert); Apple Os (Expert).
  • Collaboration Tools: Ms Word, Ms Excel, Ms Outlook, Ms Powerpoint, Ms Project, Visio, Teams, Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket, Git, Alm, Scrum, Kanban, Safe (Expert).

Languages

English
Native
German
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary
French
Elementary

Education

Oct 1993 - Jun 1995

Mfantsipim School

Advanced Level General Certificate of Education, Mathematics, Geography, Economics and General Knowledge · Cape Coast, Ghana

Oct 1987 - Jun 1992

Mfantsipim School

Ordinary level General Certificate of Education, Mathematics, Advanced Mathematics, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, · Cape Coast, Ghana

Certifications & licenses

Advanced Information Security

School of Economics and Information Technology, Vienna University of Technology

Business Engineering

School of Economics and Information Technology, Vienna University of Technology

Information Security

School of Economics and Information Technology, Vienna University of Technology

Information Technology and Business Information Systems

School of Economics and Information Technology, Vienna University of Technology

Software & Systems Engineering

School of Economics and Information Technology, Vienna University of Technology

Web Engineering

School of Economics and Information Technology, Vienna University of Technology

German

Pre-University School of the Vienna Universities

Physics

Pre-University School of the Vienna Universities

Pre-University School Mathematics

Pre-University School of the Vienna Universities

Advanced Level General Certificate of Education

Mfantsipim School, Cape Coast Ghana

Certificate in Introduction to Computers and Typing

Accra Business Services Center, Osu - Accra Ghana

Ordinary level General Certificate of Education

Mfantsipim School, Cape Coast Ghana

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 20
Experience in Information Technology 14.5 y
Avg length 1 y 8 m
Longest experience 7 y 1 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 3 (Austria, Ghana, Switzerland)
Primary country Austria

Expertise

Recent roles Software Developer and DevOps Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer, Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead (Pro-bono)
Main industries Information Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Telecommunication
Main business areas Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development

Qualifications

Certifications earned 12

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Where is John based?

John is based in Vienna, Austria and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

What languages does John speak?

John speaks the following languages: English (Native), German (Advanced), Spanish (Elementary), French (Elementary).

How many years of experience does John have?

John has at least 28 years of experience. During this time, John has worked in at least 13 different roles and for 16 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 5 months. Note that John may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would John be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, John would be well-suited for roles such as: Software Developer and DevOps Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer, Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead (Pro-bono).

What is John's latest experience?

John's most recent position is Software Developer and DevOps Engineer at Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ).

What companies has John worked for in recent years?

In recent years, John has worked for Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ), Accenture, Abofonsa Mobile Health Service, Swiss Railways (SBB), and Bedrock Insurance Ghana Limited.

Which industries is John most experienced in?

John is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Aerospace and Defense, and Telecommunication. John also has some experience in Healthcare, Transportation, and Government and Administration.

Which business areas is John most experienced in?

John is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Product Development. John also has some experience in Operations, Research and Development, and Business Intelligence.

Which industries has John worked in recently?

John has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Healthcare, and Transportation.

Which business areas has John worked in recently?

John has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Operations.

What is John's education?

John attended Mfantsipim School for Advanced Level General Certificate of Education, Mathematics, Geography, Economics and General Knowledge.

Does John have any certificates?

John has 12 certificates. Among them, these include: Advanced Information Security, Business Engineering, and Information Security.

What is the availability of John?

John is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.

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