Jaiye Senbanjo

Skills | Certifications | Projects | Education | Experience | Hobbies & Interests | LinkedIn

I am passionate about coding! I enjoy being creative and technical at the same time and building, managing and monitoring products that solve real world problems.
I have a BSc from Imperial College and an MSc from Warwick University. I have a professional background in the food production industry. I have acquired qualifications and developed skills in programming and I am applying them in Software Development. I have a strong willingness and desire to learn new tools, techniques and technologies in order to broaden my skillset and make me a better developer.

Skills

Computing

• Cloud computing - IaC, DevOps, security & remediation
• Programming - Python, Java, Kotlin, Groovy, Javascript, Typescript

Teamwork

• I enjoy pair programming and code reviews, they provide a great opportunity to learn and share knowledge

Communication & documentation

• I am a strong communicator and listener
• I am good at giving and receiving feedback
• I leave detailed helpful documentation for developers that will subsequently work on the same codebase

Problem solving

• I deconstruct a problem and solve it in parts
• I also research and take on board solutions and strategies implemented by others

Learning

• I learn new tools quickly
• I read and continuously work on personal projects

Certifications

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Associate badge
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate badge

Projects

Project	Link	Description	Technologies Used
cfn-variable-repository	GitHub	a cloudformation custom-resource to define and refer to dynamic variables within the cloudformation stack lifecycle	lambda, cloudformation, python
aquarium	GitHub	a water-change management application for aquariums to be run on a raspberry pi	python, pytest, side-effects, schedule, rpi, hardware, components

Education

Makers Academy (April - June 2017)
a 3-month intensive coding bootcamp which develops skills and experiences based around pair-programming, Test Driven Development, Object Oriented Design and Agile project management

• Curiosity and hungry passion for code
• Independent learner and problem-solver
• Pair programming
• OOP, TDD, SOLID, MVC
• Software Craftsmanship
• Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, RSpec, Capybara
• Javascript, Node.js, jQuery, Jasmine, Mocha, Zombie, Chai, Enzyme

East London Advanced Technology Training (2016)

• Higher Level 2 Diploma Web Development

Warwick University 2010-2011

• MSc Agronomy, Merit (BBSRC scholar)

Imperial College London (2003-2006)

• BSc (Hons) Zoology

Experience

Policy Expert, London
Policy Expert is the digital home and car insurer using proprietary technology and data insights to disrupt the General Insurance Market through clear and transparent policies, fair pricing and attentive customer service
October 2020 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos
Platform Engineer (DevOps)

• AWS Cloud Computing
  • EC2, ECS, EFS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, EFS, Route53, KMS, Cloudformation, Athena, Cloudwatch, GuardDuty, SecurityHub, Organization & Multi Account IAM
• Teamcity CI/CD
  • build & test, deploy, test pipelines from GitHub hosted repositories
• Docker
  • migrated services to docker
  • full docker-compose inter-service testing locally with localstack AWS
  • migration of services from EC2 to ECS fargate
• Python, Bash scripting
  • cron and CLI based solutions for AWS interaction and stack management
• GitHub actions
  • wrote and tested custom GitHub actions for job/step reuse
  • migrated CI/CD from teamcity to self-hosted GitHub actions
  • used lambda to scale number of runner instances based on demand
  • used lambda and webhooks events to scale and replace ephemeral self-hosted runners
  • used packer to create AMIs
  • mounted EFS on runners for dependency caching
• Jira, Slack, Confluence

Policy Expert, London
July 2017 - October 2020
Software Engineer

• SOLID, Hexagonal architecture
  • wrote microservices and libraries
  • used Java, Kotlin, Javascript, Typescript
  • built using Springboot, Maven, Gradle, Pip, Tox, Node, SQL
  • integrated AWS java API, git
• TDD
  • JUnit, spock, chai, mocha
• AWS
  • S3, SQS, SNS, RDS
• Pair programming, code review, documentation

LandAfrique Agriculture, Nigeria / London
March 2009 to September 2010, September 2011 to December 2015
Associate Business Development, Agriculture

• developed detailed feasibility reports and financial models for a cassava production and starch/glucose syrup processing enterprises. Reported to MD
• calculation of financial and accounting variables such as NPV, IRR, ADSCR, cash flow, and lending modelling calculating interest rate repayment, asset depreciation and amortisation
• involved in the company listing and equity placement through AIM segment of the London Stock exchange and discussions with TATA GROUP Agriculture Africa Fund through Investec Bank

SIAT Group
January 2007 to January 2009
Assistant to the Head of Agricultural Services on a Rubber Plantation, Gabon

• rubber price trend analysis in accordance with crude oil and freight prices
• Responsible for implementing and executing rubber purchasing strategy and reconciling purchasing positions

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

• Fishing, exercise, aquarium, reading, raspberry pi
• Medium blog @jaiye.s