Living and working out of the Shire in the district of Columbia. Emmanuel Apau, a first-generation Gambian-Ghanian American spends his time ruminating on the final season of Game of Thrones, that could have been. 

He is the CTO of consulting firm Mechanicode.io, co-founder of the black code collective and DC's Technical.ly RealLIST Engineer award recipient. 

As an AWS Certified DevOps specialist with 11 years of experience developing innovative automation solutions using DevOps & Site reliability best practices for clients. He has a passion for automation and improving the feedback loop in the developer experience. 

Experience in both the public and private sectors, providing modernization services that engage Agile best practices, scalable cloud architectures, and continuous integration & deployment standards.