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Osisioma E. Amaefule

Information Technology student at North Carolina A&T and two-time Software Engineering Intern at Cisco. I build CI/CD automation, Kubernetes test pipelines, and AI-powered developer tools.

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Experience

Software Engineering Intern (Returning)

Cisco · Research Triangle Park, NC · Hybrid

May 2026 – Aug 2026

  • Built and automated a CI/CD pipeline for a distributed cloud-based VPN platform spanning 17 microservices, improving cross-service integration and build validation.
  • Diagnosed and resolved CI/CD reliability issues in GitHub Actions, including race conditions, stale workflow run detection, container image versioning errors, and silent pipeline failures.
  • Investigated end-to-end test and infrastructure failures across Kubernetes-based environments by tracing GitHub Actions workflows, Grafana logs, and pyATS automation to identify root causes.

Information Technology Intern

University of North Carolina System · Raleigh, NC

Mar 2025 – May 2026

  • Diagnosed and resolved hardware, software, and network issues on Windows and macOS devices.
  • Supported IT setup for Board of Governors meetings with 50–70 attendees across 3+ rooms.
  • Tracked devices across UNC System Office and PBS offices, logging user assignments and warranty status.

Software Engineering Intern

Cisco · Research Triangle Park, NC

May 2025 – Aug 2025

  • Developed Python scripts to automatically triage and assign 500+ bugs to the appropriate engineering teams.
  • Implemented secure access to REST APIs by configuring and managing bearer token authentication.
  • Automated updates to the company's internal site and JSON files using Python scripts run from the command line, improving data accuracy and workflow efficiency.

IT Technician

Lenoir County Public Schools

Jun 2023 – Mar 2024

  • Deployed remote commands to Apple devices with Jamf Pro and managed devices through Mobile Device Management (MDM) platforms.
  • Diagnosed and resolved hardware and software issues on Apple devices, including iOS updates and system restores.
  • Assembled and tested Ethernet (RJ-45) cables following T568A/B wiring standards.

Help Desk Technician

Goldsboro Quick Care · Goldsboro, NC

Aug 2021 – May 2023

  • Provided technical support to end users, diagnosing and fixing hardware and software issues.
  • Monitored system performance and applied updates when needed.
  • Implemented and maintained security measures against malware, viruses, and unauthorized access.
  • Kept detailed records of system configurations, changes, and incidents.

Projects

Spring 2026

IoT Network Intrusion Detection

Extended an ensemble ML framework from peer-reviewed IEEE research with XGBoost and LightGBM under Crow Search hyperparameter optimization. Fixed preprocessing bugs that lifted Random Forest accuracy from 75% to 95%, validated on UNR-IDD, CICIDS2017 and UNSW-NB15 (up to 97% accuracy).

PythonXGBoostLightGBMML research

October 2025

AI Chatbot ↗

Interactive chatbot built with Flask that combines OpenAI GPT models with real-time weather data, with RESTful routes, error handling for two APIs, and a responsive UI with chat history.

PythonFlaskRESTOpenAI

Live

This website

A static site in a private S3 bucket, served over HTTPS through CloudFront with a custom domain on Route 53. The whole setup is defined as infrastructure as code in Terraform, with remote state in S3. It's the first in a series of hands-on AWS cloud engineering projects.

AWS S3CloudFrontACMRoute 53TerraformIaCAWS CLI

Education

B.S. in Information Technology

North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University ↗ · GPA 3.8/4.0

Jan 2025 – May 2027

  • Networking and system administration
  • Database management and data analysis
  • Cybersecurity principles and best practices
  • Software development using industry-standard tools

Coursework: Algorithms & Computing Theory, Data Structures & OOD (C++), Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Computer Architecture, Databases

A.A.S. in Software Development

Wayne Community College ↗

2022 – May 2024

  • Developed and deployed dynamic web applications with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and PHP.
  • Coursework in database management, software testing, and system design.
  • Built strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across software systems.

Certificates: Application Development (2022), Computer Programming (2022), Systems & Hardware Support (2023)

Skills

Languages

JavaPythonGoJavaScriptPHPSQLBash

Cloud & DevOps

AWSAWS BedrockTerraformDockerKubernetesHelmArgo CDGitHub ActionsLinuxYAML

Tools

vClusterpyATSJupyterREST APIsClaude

Contact

Open to internships and new-grad roles in software, cloud and DevOps engineering.

osiamaefule@gmail.com · Raleigh-Durham, NC · Open to remote roles