Rowan Okafor

Platform Engineering Lead

Lisbon, Portugalrowan@example.comexample.com/rowan

Builds and runs the systems other teams deploy on. Twelve years across infrastructure and developer tooling, the last five leading the team that owns it.

40+
engineers supported
9 min
median deploy time
12 yrs
in infrastructure

Experience

Meridian Systems

Aug 2019 → present

Lisbon

Platform Engineering Lead, Developer Infrastructure

Mar 2022 → present
  • Led the six-person team owning build, deploy and observability for 40 engineers.
  • Cut median deploy time from 34 minutes to 9 by rebuilding the CI graph around cached layers.
  • Introduced an on-call rotation and a written escalation path where neither existed.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Aug 2019 → Mar 2022
  • Migrated the estate from hand-managed hosts to declarative infrastructure, one service at a time.
  • Wrote the runbooks the team still uses.

Kestrel Data

Jan 2016 → Jul 2019

Backend Engineer

Jan 2016 → Jul 2019
  • Built the ingestion pipeline behind the reporting product.

Earlier

  • Junior DeveloperNorthgate RetailJun 2014 → Dec 2015

Skills

Languages

  • Go
  • Python

Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform

Practice

  • Observability
  • Incident response

Education

2014

BSc, Computer Science

University of Porto

Certifications