Summary
I help teams ship confidently by turning ambiguity into clear SLOs, codifying best practices in Terraform/Ansible, and automating releases with GitOps. I’m fluent in AWS, GCP, Azure and experienced with Kubernetes & OpenShift at scale. I build ETL/ELT pipelines, observability stacks, and security guardrails, and I mentor via ADPList, CodeMentor, and community groups like GDG.
Core Stack
EKS • GKE • AKSOpenShiftIstio
Helm • Argo CDTerraform • Terragrunt • PulumiAnsible
Prometheus • Loki • Thanos • ELKGolang • Python
Kafka • Pub/SubBigQuery • Snowflake
Experience
Senior Cloud Engineer - Lloyds Banking Group, Edinburgh
Oct 2023 – Present
- Standardised Terraform modules & GitHub Actions across 200+ services, cutting infra build time ~70%.
- Multi-region EKS/GKE with Istio and mTLS; payments APIs at 99.99%+ availability.
- WAF + Istio AuthorizationPolicies: 97% malicious traffic blocked with zero false positives.
- Vault-backed secret rotation operator; removed 100+ tickets/month across 5 teams.
- Optimised TGW routing; 25% latency reduction on cross-region traffic.
- Mentored 10+ engineers on platform hardening & SRE fundamentals; created runbooks and labs.
Lead SRE/DevOps - Anima App (YC18), Remote
Nov 2021 – Feb 2023
- Built GKE + Istio platform from scratch; scaled to 1M+ MAU, #1 Figma dev plugin.
- Helmfile + FluxCD GitOps; deploy time 30 min → 5 min, clearer canary rollbacks.
- Prometheus/Thanos/Loki with SLO alerts; 50% MTTR reduction. 32% cloud cost savings.
- Partnered with founders on reliability roadmap during fundraising; improved investor confidence.
DevOps Engineer - FoodCourt (YC S22)
Mar 2021 – Nov 2021
- PCI-aware AWS infra with Terragrunt; WAF/Security Hub baselines.
- ECS + ALB hardening; reduced external attack surface ~40%.
- Automated ETL for operational analytics (S3 → Glue/Athena); improved decision latency.
Site Reliability Engineer - Pocket Network Inc, Florida
Jun 2020 – May 2021
- Ran 50+ blockchain validator clusters (AWS/Azure) handling $1.5B/day traffic with zero slashing.
- Terraform/Ansible bootstrap; rollout time 3h → 20m. Consolidated observability stack.
- Mentored ops team on incident playbooks & SLOs; improved on-call quality.
Software Engineer - Touchcore Technology Limited, Lagos
2017 – 2019
- Designed and deployed OpenShift clusters for internal microservices; automated onboarding with Helm.
- Jenkins + Ansible pipelines for Java/Spring apps; deployment lead time cut by 50%.
- Hybrid cloud architecture (VMware + AWS) with secure network segments and backups.
- Coached interns/junior engineers via weekly infra deep-dives and code reviews.
Education & Certifications
- MSc, Machine Learning & Deep Learning - University of Strathclyde
- BEng, Electrical & Electronics Engineering - University of Ilorin
- AWS SA-Pro • AWS Developer • CKA • CKS • Terraform Associate • GCP ACE • GCP PDE • Azure Admin (AZ-104)
Scholarships
- Postgraduate Scholarship - AGIP
- Undergraduate Scholarships - MTN, PTDF, SHELL, Chevron
Highlights
Multi-Cloud
AWS • GCP • Azure
Compliant landing zones, cross-region networking, GitOps releases.
Kubernetes & OpenShift
EKS • GKE • AKS • OCP
Istio/mTLS, policy, autoscaling, platform SLOs.
IaC & Automation
Terraform • Ansible
Modules, golden pipelines, operators; toil down, speed up.
Coding
Golang • Python
Operators, CLIs, automation for scale.
Data Pipelines
ETL • ELT
Kafka/PubSub → BigQuery/Snowflake with quality gates & lineage.
Mentorship
ADPList • CodeMentor
40+ sessions; onboarding rubrics & study tracks.
What I’ll Bring to Your Team
Actionable impact across cost, automation, reliability, and deep systems.
Cost Optimization
- Delivered 25–35% yearly cloud savings via rightsizing, autoscaling, spot/RI strategy.
- Infra cost dashboards & anomaly alerts; engineering teams see and own spend.
Automation
- Eliminate 100+ manual tickets/month through operators, pipelines, self-service templates.
- Shift-left security/compliance with policy-as-code & golden repos.
AI & Data
- MSc in Deep Learning; strong statistics & mathematical foundations.
- Python internals + PyTorch/TensorFlow; anomaly detection for SRE signals.
- ETL/ELT: Kafka/PubSub → BigQuery/Snowflake with validation & lineage.
Deep Linux & Networking
- System calls, cgroups, namespaces, kernel tuning; container runtime internals.
- TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, L4/L7; pod-to-pod debugging, iptables/eBPF visibility.
- perf, strace, tcpdump, ss - root-cause at OS/network layers.
Scale & Reliability
- Active-active architectures, read replicas, quorum design.
- Multi-region DR with defined RPO/RTO, automated failover & chaos drills.
- SLOs with error budgets; 99.99%+ for critical paths.
System Design & Security
- Design for scale: backpressure, idempotency, retries, circuit breakers.
- Zero-trust: mTLS, strong IAM boundaries, secrets lifecycle (Vault/KMS).
- Observability baked-in: golden signals, RED/USE, trace-driven analysis.
Mentorship
Community
- ADPList: career coaching, SRE roadmaps, mock interviews.
- CodeMentor: hands-on Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD sessions.
- Internal guilds: brown-bags, playbooks, incident drills.
Impact
- Reduced new-hire ramp time by ~40% with structured study tracks.
- Authored starter kits: IaC templates, SLO cookbook, on-call runbooks.
Open Source & Research Publications
Contact
If you’re hiring for DevOps/SRE/Platform and want pragmatic impact in the first 90 days, let’s talk.