Augustus Okoye
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
Languages
- EnglishFluent
Industry experience
- Software & Internet
- Government
- Professional Services
- Other
Work experience· 7 roles
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.
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.
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.
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