Dustan is a software developer currently living in Dar es salaam, Tanzania. Dustan has more than 5 years of experience in IT with a focus on Software Development, Data Analysis, Administration & Support, DevOps, Cloud and Security. Dustan is certified in the Agile and ITIL. Dustan is both driven and self-motivated, constantly experimenting with new technologies and techniques. In his spare time, Dustan enjoy watching scientific documentaries, movies, reading and watching or playing football.
Collaborate with internal/external teams (DBAs, Product Managers, Solution Architects, Security Team etc.) in; Designing solutions, Prototyping, Developing, Maintaining and Supporting software/systems. ∘ Coordinate system testing efforts by providing timely written and verbal technical expertise and test plans for new feature/software releases and conducting unit testing of new feature/software before release. ∘ Acting as the main point of contact for all key issues relating the in-house applications, servers and other application resource/information. ∘ Database design, implementation, optimization, replication etc ∘ Managing and making sure team keep up-to-date system documentation, solution design, architecture diagrams and security checklist for every system/service or integration ∘ Leading in Source code management and making sure every developer pushes codes to the on-premise GitLab ∘ Leading in server management i.e. working closely with Data center, Network and Security team in making sure servers hosting applications and services/API are healthy and working as intended ∘ Lead and support junior software developers, providing advice, guidance and recommendations. ∘ Perform DevOps tasks
Acquire data from primary & secondary data sources and maintain databases and data systems ∘ Interpret data, analyze results, translate numbers and facts to inform strategic business decisions ∘ Providing daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reports to management and business units ∘ Providing expertise in data storage structures, data mining, and data filtering and cleansing ∘ Data quality assessment, analysis, pattern and trend indication and visualization of data insights
Providing expertise as a second level support for Core banking system and payment systems ∘ Trouble shooting issues and incidents ∘ Reviewing and analyzing unusual transactions ∘ Preparing various reports to different teams such as management and finance team
Monitoring Systems performances, Servers’ memory, CPU and disc (storage) utilization as well as network and heat status ∘ Assessing, deploying, and implementing hardware and software upgrades ∘ Analyzing network and preparing various reports such as Core router and Data utilization ∘ Creating/managing policies, users, groups and organizational units in Microsoft Active Directory
Receiving and solving incidences or assigning/escalating some incidences to the appropriate unit (i.e. Second level) i.e. Tracks trending of issues and escalate, as appropriate basing on the SLAs ∘ Documenting procedures for troubleshooting and incident resolution/solution ∘ Monitoring ATMs and Self-Service Channels (USSD, Android & iOS app, B2C and C2B channels), Core-Banking and Gateway services. ∘ Prepare and share daily system health check reports to management ∘ Managing all users accesses to various systems such as Core Banking System and Microsoft Active Directory
Reviewing IT Policies and preparing some of its supporting documents i.e. Standards, Guidelines, Process and Procedures and making sure that they do comply with accepted frameworks such as COBIT 5, ITIL and ISO 27001 ∘ Preparation of various report such as; Security Assessment, Risk Register, Key Risk Indicators (KRI) and Antivirus daily status report ∘ Working with teams in different ICT units to identify existing risks (i.e. risks before applying controls) as well as residual risk (risks after applying controls) in their units ∘ Train fellow employees in security awareness and procedures as well as providing technical security advice ∘ Reviewing Change controls and Logical access in various logs and systems ∘ Implement network security policies, application security and access control, installing and configuring Ant‐virus software ∘ Monitoring network traffic for unusual activities, identifying system vulnerabilities (by using Nessus), policy‐violating configurations and malware that attackers could be using to penetrate organization’s network
Lead in Data management and analysis ∘ Lead website designing, prototyping and development ∘ Develop mauzosheet.com web and mobile application ∘ Work closely with Finance and Marketing person in budgeting and selling products
Supporting and helping professors and lab technicians on computer related issues and incidents ∘ Computer and software installations and maintenance ∘ Computer laboratory maintenance
Teaching science subjects: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology ∘ School’s football team assistant coach
GPA: 4.2
Division: 3
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Dustan enjoys hanging out with friends, watching scientific documentaries, movies & Tv series, reading or listening to musics.
He is a football fan, Simba & Arsenal Fc are his favorite Football team(s). He is an aspiring adventurer, and He does spend a large amount of his free time exploring the latest technology advancements in the software development world.
This site is hosted in Apache HTTP Server (httpd) 2.4, serving PHP 7.3.8 connected to MariaDB 10.4.7, all these are running on an AWS Amazon EC2 x86-64 CentOs7 Server. Domain, dustanmbaga.com was bought and registered at GoDaddy.com, a year later it was transferred to domain.com. DNS and all routing are handled by Amazon Route53. HTTPS was enabled using certificates offered freely by "Let’s Encrypt" and was configured using certbot.