Rowan Okafor

Platform Engineering Lead

Lisbon, Portugal · rowan@example.com · https://example.com/rowan

Profile

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

Skills

Languages: Go, Python

Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform

Practice: Observability, Incident response

Experience

Platform Engineering Lead, Developer Infrastructure

Meridian Systems · Lisbon

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

Meridian Systems

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.

Education

BSc, Computer Science

University of Porto

2014

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes

Administrator

CNCF

2021

Languages

English

Professional working proficiency

Rowan Okafor

Selected work

Developer platform

Technical lead

2024 → present

A shared release workflow with service ownership, build documentation and a

clear path from commit to deployment.

https://example.com/platform

Incident learning library

Programme owner

2023 → present

A searchable collection of incident reviews and operating guides, written with

the engineers who use them.

Infrastructure migration

Engineering lead

2022 → present

A staged migration plan with service inventories, rollback procedures and

team training.

Publications

Making deployment a routine

Engineering Notes

2024

https://example.com/notes