Edwin Waweru Maina
About Edwin Waweru Maina
Edwin Waweru Maina is a skilled L II Cloud Engineer NOC currently working at Callsign in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He has extensive experience in cloud engineering and DevOps, having previously held positions at Group 42, Tracom Services Limited, and Africa's Talking, among others.
Work at Callsign
Currently, Edwin Waweru Maina serves as an L II Cloud Engineer NOC at Callsign, a position he has held since 2021. In this role, he acts as a subject matter expert for external customers on G42 cloud services. His responsibilities include guiding and mentoring new hires on various G42 services, troubleshooting application deployments, and recreating customer issues to develop proof of concept applications. He also provides support for customer use cases by connecting Datacenters to G42 Cloud resources.
Previous Employment Experience
Before joining Callsign, Edwin worked at Group 42 as a Service Cloud Engineer for 11 months in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 2020 to 2021. He also held the position of Cloud DevOps Engineer at Tracom Services Limited in Nairobi, Kenya, from 2019 to 2020. Additionally, he worked as a DevOps Consultant at InterIntel Technologies Limited for 3 months in 2020. His early experience includes an internship as an Infrastructure Engineer at Africa's Talking in 2018.
Education and Expertise
Edwin Waweru Maina has a strong educational background in technology and engineering. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence at the University of York, expected to complete in 2024. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Informatics from the University of Eldoret, obtained in 2018. Additionally, he has multiple certifications from Alphax College, including MCSE, Cisco certification, and Cisco CCNP certification. His studies focused on Servers and Networks, Computer and Information Sciences, and Networking.
Technical Skills and Specializations
Edwin possesses extensive technical skills in cloud engineering and network management. He has experience configuring and troubleshooting software-based IPSEC and SSL-based VPN solutions, including openswan, openvpn, and PfSense. His expertise extends to Intelligent Edge Fabric and Application Integration Platforms, as well as VPN, Direct Connect (DX), Routing Protocols, and network monitoring tools. He is proficient in Enterprise Intelligence configuration and support, particularly with ModelArts and DAYU.