UC Ngwudike
 Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Manifold AI, Newton, MA

September, 2025 - Present

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Contributing to platform and infrastructure reliability.

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Visiting Scientist

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

September, 2025 - Present

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Continue to support infrastructure and DevOps initiatives as a visiting contributor within the Broad Institute’s engineering ecosystem.

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Collaborate with research and DevOps teams to maintain and evolve cloud-native infrastructure using Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm charts/Helmfile on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

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Oversee automated deployments through ArgoCD, enabling consistent, GitOps-driven workflows across research environments.

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Contribute to improving observability and operational efficiency using Grafana, Kibana, and SonarQube.

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Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

October, 2024 - September, 2025

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Designed, built, and maintained cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines supporting large-scale research and data applications.

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Provisioned and managed GCP resources using Terraform, deploying Kubernetes workloads via Helm charts and Helmfile.

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Implemented and automated continuous delivery with Argo CD, enabling declarative, GitOps-style deployments across

environments.

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Containerized and orchestrated applications using Docker and Kubernetes, optimizing reliability and scalability.

 

Integrated monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Kibana, and SonarQube to ensure performance and quality.

 

Collaborated across engineering and research teams to streamline infrastructure, reduce deployment overhead, and enforce best

practices in DevOps and automation.

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Senior Software QA Engineer

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

​April, 2020 - October, 2024

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Multifaceted role involving strategic planning, hands-on automated testing, and collaborative leadership to drive excellence in testing practices and overall product quality for a cloud-native platform hosted on Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

 

Authored comprehensive testing strategy guidelines to provide direction for teams.

 

Led the efforts to ensure new services met production-ready standards and compliance requirements, and developed integration and end-to-end tests for services.

 

Led investigation into access control gaps and collaborated with teams to identify and address the gaps.

 

Addressed performance issues by simulating and automating real-world scenarios and establishing baseline performance metrics.

 

Led initiatives to improve testing practices for a direct-to-patient research product, cutting release time from eight days to two days. Defined priorities for testing and release, promoted test automation, and established processes for test planning and release readiness.

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Software Engineer - Automation

Zipcar, Boston, MA

​February, 2017 - March, 2020

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Built a microservice used for A/B testing and added features/bug fixes as needed.

 

Built Concourse pipelines and Bash scripts that automatically run dependency checks, run integration/isolation tests, build docker images, and publish the images to appropriate repositories.

 

Deployed SonarQube and plugged in microservices to report static analysis results.

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Software Quality Engineer II

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA

​July, 2015 - ​February, 2017

 

Member of a two-person team that built an automation framework to help developers and testers write unit tests and system tests respectively.

 

Member of a two-person team that built test environments, wrote and deployed Groovy/TestNG scripts to test a product that deploys and manages OpenStack.

 

Collaborated with a team of developers, testers, and technical writers to deliver the CLI for an enterprise data protection application.  

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Software Quality Engineer I

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA

​July, 2013 - June, 2015

 

Built auto-servers, wrote and deployed Groovy/TestNG scripts to test a product’s support for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Oracle Database, VMware Data Stores, and Windows and Linux File Systems.

 

Maintained a metrics server that collected results from auto-servers runs and sent daily reports to management.​ 

 

 

Cyber Security Laboratory Research Assistant

Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

​January, 2013 - June, 2013

 

Developed lab projects to simulate penetration testing to assess vulnerabilities in applications, networks, and databases.
Developed and implemented strategies that mitigate network and software vulnerabilities.
Performed risk assessment and analyzed the severity of threats.

 

 

IT Specialist

Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

​September, 2011 - June, 2013

 

Managed computers on Active Directory.
Created and managed account for users.
Trouble-shot computer problems.
Installed and maintained software and hardware devices.
Created student network ID.

 

 

Software developer/Researcher - Intern

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

​June, 2012 - July, 2012

 

Developed two computer programs that analyze peptide libraries.