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Tom H

@tomh

Senior Software Engineer at Akieni building AWS and Kubernetes platforms, including a health insurance system serving 5,000+ daily requests.

Congo, The Democratic Republic of the

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At Akieni, I lead a squad of five engineers and make system design decisions, document architectures, and work with clients to translate their needs into technical plans.

For the Government universal health insurance platform (CAMU), I designed and built a microservices platform deployed on AWS and Kubernetes. It serves more than 5,000 requests per day and integrates with mobile money providers, banking, and an external biometric fingerprint system.

At Akieni, I also delivered the NSIA Assurances microservices backend, administration portal, and two mobile applications. The platform handles more than 1,000 requests per day and supports real-time notifications, OTP delivery, and mobile money payments.

Previously, at Axialys, I led backend development for a public API programme and contributed to a monolith-to-microservices migration. Across my work, I’ve built distributed systems and APIs, deployed workloads on Kubernetes, and documented service integrations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Akieni

Jun 2024 - Present (2 years 4 months)

Lead a squad of 5 developers in an Agile/Scrum setup, driving system design and technical architecture decisions. Work directly with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical architectures.

Agile Scrum System Design Technical Architecture Microservices AWS Kubernetes Jenkins ArgoCD GitOps Monitoring Observability Logging Code Review Mentorship

Full Stack Software Engineer

Axialys

Jun 2022 - Jun 2024 (2 years)

Led backend development of a public API programme serving 2,500+ requests per day. Contributed to monolith to microservices migration, implementing REST, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and WebSocket communication layers.

REST RabbitMQ Kafka WebSockets Microservices API Design Postman Technical Documentation Cytoscape NodeJS Python Java

Lead Software Developer

Kadea Software

Dec 2021 - Jun 2022 (6 months)

Led a team of 6 developers, standardised code review processes, and deployed solutions on Linux VPS with Kubernetes, Nginx, Jenkins, and ArgoCD. Partnered with HR for technical interviews.

Kubernetes Docker Nginx Jenkins ArgoCD CI CD Code Review Technical Leadership Linux GitOps

Software Developer

Kadea Software

Oct 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 2 months)

Backend developer on the national COVID-19 task force, building APIs and reporting dashboards. Delivered full-stack applications and managed Linux VPS infrastructure with Docker, Nginx, and Cloudflare.