Oche Ejembi

Oche Ejembi has over a decade of work experience in the technology industry. Oche started their career as an Intern at Unified Payments® in 2008 and later became a Graduate Software Developer. During this time, they gained experience in website management, network and system administration, SQL scripting, automated report creation, user acceptance testing (UAT), and project management.

In 2012, Oche joined the University of St Andrews as a Postgraduate Researcher and Tutor. Their research focused on enabling energy-awareness for internet video streaming. Oche conducted independent research, set up experimental test-beds on various operating systems, created performance monitoring and benchmarking tools, and performed statistical analysis using Python and Bash scripting.

From 2016 to 2021, Oche worked at Sky, initially as a DevOps Software Engineer, then as a Software Developer In Test, and finally as a Senior Test Automation Engineer. Oche was responsible for building devops tools for Sky's Content & Discovery department, using technologies like Docker, Terraform, Vagrant, Consul, ETCD, Puppet, Jenkins, AWS, PowerDNS, and Kea DHCP.

Most recently, Oche worked at Barclays as a DevOps Lead/Senior Automation Engineer. Oche played a key role in fostering a culture of DevOps Automation and Standardization within the Corporate Digital Bank. Oche focused on the productionization of ETL and Machine Learning (ML) applications and pipelines, utilizing a tech stack that included Python, Jenkins, Linux, Kubernetes/Openshift, Hadoop, AbInitio, REST APIs, and Java.

Oche's work experience also includes their current position as a Site Reliability Engineer at Salesloft since 2022.

Oche Ejembi's education history includes a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from the University of St Andrews, a Master of Science (MSc) in Networks and Distributed Systems from the same university, a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Engineering from the University of Lagos, and a Senior School Certificate from the International School, University of Lagos. Additionally, Oche Ejembi holds several certifications, including a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) from The Linux Foundation, a DevOps Foundations: Site Reliability Engineering from LinkedIn, a Learning Kubernetes certification from LinkedIn, an Oracle Certified Java Programmer (OCJP) from Oracle, a Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA) from Cisco, and an Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner certification. The institution for the CCNP Switching certification is not provided, and the obtained month and year for the Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner certification are also not specified.