Obay Daba

Senior Software Engineer · Kaiko Systems · Berlin

Senior engineer building data pipelines and infrastructure — currently at Kaiko Systems, Berlin.

I design distributed systems and the infrastructure they run on — from Terraform to production.

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About

I'm a software engineer based in Berlin, currently on the Product Delivery team at Kaiko Systems. Before that I was at Priceloop, where I worked on data-heavy backend systems. Along the way I've gravitated toward the problems that sit between application code and the machines it runs on: designing data pipelines, wiring up distributed infrastructure, and making deployments boring.

My toolkit centers on Python, Django, and Go, with the infrastructure expressed as code — Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD on AWS, GCP, and Hetzner. I self-host my side projects the same way I'd run production: provisioned with Terraform, served behind Caddy, shipped by GitHub Actions.

Projects

Eyesight

Instagram analytics via the Instagram Graph API — a Django app self-hosted on Hetzner Cloud.

  • Python
  • Django
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Hetzner
  • GitHub Actions
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bayoo-docx

Python library for creating and modifying Word documents — a python-docx fork extended with comment and footnote support. 148★ on GitHub.

  • Python
  • OpenXML
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Skills

Languages

  • Python
  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • SQL

Infrastructure

  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Hetzner Cloud
  • Caddy
  • GitHub Actions

Data & Backend

  • Data pipelines
  • Distributed systems
  • Django
  • PostgreSQL

Contact

The best way to reach me is email — or find me on GitHub and LinkedIn.