Karik Isichei-forty
Director Contractor at Kyteq ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKarik Isichei-forty is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with nine years’ experience building data and cloud backend infrastructure, currently contributing at Kraken. He has led data platform design and delivery across UK government at the Ministry of Justice, where he combined infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, AWS), orchestration (Airflow/GitHub Actions) and data processing (Python, Spark, Athena) to make pipelines reproducible, auditable and production-ready. At Genomics England and MoJ he helped operationalise data science proofs-of-concept into scalable services while driving cost savings, team growth and recruitment improvements. Comfortable bridging hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, he has acted as Head of Data Engineering and mentored engineers across government. Trained in mechatronics and acoustics (MSc, BEng, University of Southampton), he brings a systems-thinking mindset unusual for backend specialists, blending automation, testing and reproducibility to speed analyst and data-scientist workflows.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Mechatronics, Master of Science (MSc) Mechatronics at University of Southampton
Stackoverflow
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761reached
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Github Skills (93)
python10
apache-arrow10
reporter10
parquet10
analytical10
aws-glue10
data-engineering9
lambda9
database9
amazon-athena9
etl9
openxlsx9
docker-image9
jsonl9
aws9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
moj-analytical-services/docker-lookup-tables
Apr 2019 - Feb 2021
Docker image to parse data from files in github and add them to a data store in lookup tables
Contributions:10 releases, 26 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 10 months
docker-imagelookup-table
moj-analytical-services/s3-proxy-webapp-template
Aug 2019 - Jun 2021
Static website template - that gets its content from S3
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 11 months
aws
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