Gidraff Kamande

Freelanced as a solo builder on Upwork and delivered technical advisory and client engagement. Developed and maintained hands-on security testing and advanced capability work through HTB and TryHackMe, including exploit development and scripting. Supported projects with PostgreSQL familiarity and Node.js support.

Provided premium remote staffing and operational support for executives and founders. Improved CI/CD pipeline performance by implementing GitHub Actions workflows, reducing build-to-deploy time through accelerated feature delivery and reducing friction for development teams. Optimized and debugged serverless GCP Cloud Functions to increase availability and reduce customer-impacting issues. Mentored a team of 3 software engineers, driving engineering best practices and faster delivery cycles. Collaborated with marketing and sales teams to support campaigns by ensuring reliable system behavior under peak loads using enhanced monitoring and alignment with sales strategy. Provided on-call incident response to improve response times and increase operational readiness.

Delivered blood and DNA diagnostic services with personalized well-being recommendations. Ensured high uptime and reliability for customer-facing systems by leveraging cloud infrastructure plus monitoring and observability, contributing to improved SLIs and increased customer trust. Reduced operational toil through internal developer platforms to improve developer experience across teams. Collaborated with support teams to resolve performance issues such as latency and timeouts. Evaluated tooling and proposed improvements to increase platform resilience and improve developer productivity. Guided migration from an internal authentication service to an enterprise-grade AWS solution using Infrastructure-as-Code and production security best practices. Containerized and deployed microservices on AWS EKS, implementing GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and automating rollouts.