Delivered Results by delivering high-availability web and cloud solutions for Vodacom's retail ecosystem, maintaining 100% uptime during Black Friday, the client's peak traffic event. Optimized deployment readiness and standby protocols, tuning Kubernetes liveness and health probes to improve rollback stability and reduce release-related incidents during heavy-load windows. Supported production deployments and on-call monitoring rotations in an AWS-style pager-duty capacity, ensuring proactive alert response and rapid recovery procedures.
Dove Deep by configuring and maintaining Prometheus and Grafana dashboards to enhance visibility into system latency, API health, and deployment status across environments. Performed Kubernetes troubleshooting and live health verifications, identifying and resolving node failures, configuration drift, and scaling misconfigurations before they impacted users. Assisted in architecture and project component reviews, verifying deployment health checks, pipeline readiness, and service interdependencies.
Invented & Simplified by contributing to the retail site migration effort (Xamarin & SOAP → React.js & REST APIs), ensuring new deployments were properly monitored and instrumented for reliability. Automated monitoring alerts and simplified build deployment handoffs to reduce manual release overhead and ensure smooth production readiness.
Ownership & Mentorship demonstrated by taking ownership of deployment and observability layers, ensuring release stability and system integrity across multiple environments. Mentored junior developers and support engineers on Kubernetes configurations, CI/CD best practices, and real-time monitoring principles—building team confidence during high-traffic periods.