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Augustus Okoye

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Senior software and AI engineer with 9+ years of experience building reliable backend systems, automation workflows, and API-driven services.

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Senior software and AI engineer with 9+ years of experience building reliable backend systems, automation workflows, and API-driven services. I work with LLM-powered logic, event-driven architectures, and integrations to help teams automate inbound requests, process data intelligently, and reduce manual effort. I focus on practical, production-ready solutions that are simple to operate and easy to adapt as requirements evolve.

  • 10 years' experience
  • Joined January 2026

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Government
  • Professional Services
  • Other

Work experience· 7 roles

AI Platform Engineer · HypersetJul 2025 – Dec 2025 · 6 mos

Contract MVP phase for a multi-service AI engineering productivity platform combining AI chat and agent-driven workflows with organizational context. Delivered a production-ready MVP with real-time collaboration, agent execution, and context-aware automation. Implemented a GraphQL Federation gateway, Go-based runners, Python-based retrieval logic, and WebSocket/NATS-based real-time streams. Established secure multi-tenancy for SaaS and on-prem deployments and integrated LLM-driven workflows for inbound routing and automation.

DevSecOps Engineer · Raytheon AustraliaOct 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Platform engineer within Raytheon’s Software Factory team, designing, building, and supporting a multi-domain DevSecOps platform for three Integrated Product Teams. Administers Azure resources (AKS, VNets, Key Vault, ACR) and VMware vSphere clusters underpinning TKS. Re-architected GitLab CI templates to generate SBOMs, run CVE scans, apply SonarQube gates, and promote artefacts from Azure AKS (Official) to TKS Kubernetes in Secret/TS labs. Deploys BigBang on hardened images, implements image hardening with Packer and Ansible, and delivers offline dev-containers across air-gapped environments. Built custom Golang CLIs for secrets rotation, GitLab runner registration, and compliance reporting. Works within a SAFe ART with sprint planning and PI objectives.

DevSecOps Engineer · Consunet (embedded at DSTG, Edinburgh)Jan 2024 – Oct 2024 · 10 mos

Member of DSTG’s DevSecOps platform team, delivering cross-domain GitLab CI/CD, Tanzu Kubernetes, and end-to-end supply-chain security. Implemented SBOM generation, Anchore/Trivy CVE scans, SonarQube SAST/DAST, and SLSA-aligned artifact signing/promotions. Administered Tanzu Kubernetes clusters, Helm-based bootstrap, and IronBank-hardened base images. Authored Ansible automation to provide offline, STIG-compliant developer environments across classifications. Built full-stack internal tooling dashboards for build status and vulnerability reporting.

Software Engineer · Consunet (Waymouth St.)Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo
Software Scientist – Tactical Information Architectures Scientist · Defence Science & Technology, Department of DefenceNov 2017 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos
Software Engineer · Daronmont TechnologiesAug 2017 – Nov 2017 · 4 mos
Researcher · SA Power NetworksJan 2016 – Nov 2016 · 11 mos

Education

Honours Degree of Bachelor of Engineering · University of Adelaide2014 – 2016
Associate Degree: Electronics Engineering “& computer systems” · TAFE SA2012 – 2013
Diploma and Advanced Diploma: Electronics Engineering · TAFE SA2010 – 2012

Certifications and awards

SAFe® 6.0 – Pretty Agile2024 – 2026
Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance2022 – 2026
Australian Government NV2 Security Clearance2030 – 2026

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