OSWALD GYABAAH

Phone: +233 55 413 4307, Email: mensah.o.g@gmail.com, LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ogyabaah

Computer Engineer with over 3 years of experience in backend engineering, infrastructure management, and

DevOps. Proven track record in designing, developing, and optimizing scalable, cost-effective cloud-native

applications. Seeking a challenging role as a Backend Engineer, Cloud Architect, or DevOps Engineer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cloud DevOps Engineer, MYHEALTHCOP LTD, Jun 2021 – Present

● Architected secure and scalable, AWS infrastructure using ECS, ECR, EC2, S3, SES, etc efficiently deploying
high-traffic microservice applications.

● Designed CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and CircleCI, eliminating manual deployments, automating tests,
achieving over 80% increase in feature deployment speed.

● Leveraged Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform to provision and decommission infrastructure.
This improved deployment time by over 80% ensuring consistent deployments across multiple environments.

● Automated routine workflows such as updating environment variables, creating secrets, destroying, recreating
and populating test databases, etc, decreasing manual intervention by 90% and enhancing overall efficiency.

● Implemented Ansible playbooks to automate configuration management, reducing manual intervention by over
80% ensuring consistent and efficient deployment across multiple environments.

● Established robust monitoring, alerting, and visualization systems using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana,
achieving a 10x increase in transparency, 25% improvement in uptime and overall performance.

● Optimized infrastructure costs on AWS, achieving a 15% reduction whilst maintaining high performance.

● Containerised backend applications in docker and orchestrated them with autoscaling using Elastic Container
Service, improving application deployment and management efficiency.

Backend Engineer, MYHEALTHCOP LTD, Jan 2021 – Present

● Architected backend applications consistent with the 12-factor application methodology, and adhering to the
SOLID design principles ensuring flexibility and easy extensiblity, scalability, modularity and maintainability.

● Designed and optimized high-performing REST and GraphQL microservice APIs using Django , incorporating
crucial features such as custom authentication, authorization and facilitated interservice communication using
service mesh

● Improved existing systems’ performance through database query optimisations, indexing, caching, and bulk
retrieval methods reducing peak latency by over 90% from 5 seconds to a less than 500 milliseconds

● Designed a robust background worker system utilizing Celery, Celery Beats, and Redis to handle background
operations, with automatic retry to reduce latency on the main thread and significantly enhance reliability.

● Architected application interfaces that seamlessly integrate with multiple SMS, email, and payment service
providers. Incorporated dynamic provider selection based on specific conditions and implemented fallback
mechanisms to enhance application resilience in the event of provider failure.

● Implemented advanced email signing and security measures, including DKIM and SPF, to gurantee
deliverability and fortify sender reputation across multiple email service providers.
 ● Implemented automated unit and integration testing, achieving over 90% test coverage for enhanced
application health and reliability

Backend Engineer, Zettlo AS, May 2023 – Present

● Architected a complete social media backend based on GraphQL using Django, specifically tailored to support
seamless streaming of video content with extremely low latency.

● Engineered a real-time recommendation system designed to analyze user interactions, preferences, and
behaviors in real-time. Utilized this data to provide dynamic and personalized video content recommendations to
users, enhancing their overall experience on the platform.

● Integrated highly efficient caching mechanism using redis to reduce the system's response time by 25% and
improving the overall platform's responsiveness.

● Designed and integrated WebSockets enabling real-time communication between the server and clients, leading
to a more interactive and engaging user experience.

● Designed and implemented a comprehensive notification system, providing timely and relevant updates to
users, resulting in increased user engagement and improved user retention on the platform.

● Integrated push notifications to enhance user engagement and re-engagement strategies, ultimately driving an
increase in returning users and boosting overall platform activity.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Backend: Python, Django, FastAPI, REST, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Firebase, Redis

Cloud Infra: AWS (ECS, Fargate, EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk), Docker, Cloud Native Architecture,

DevOps: Terraform, Ansible, Git, GitOps, Github Actions, CircleCI, Docker, CI/CD, Linux

Frontend: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Tailwind, Material UI, React.js, NextJs, Flutter

EDUCATION

BSc Computer Engineering, Ashesi University, September 2016 - May 2020

MasterCard Foundation Scholar, Ashesi University, September 20216 - May 2020

Certified AWS Solutions Architect Professional Candidate, January 2024