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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

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.

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.

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Kubernetes

Administrator

CNCF

2021

EDUCATION

BSc, Computer Science

University of Porto

2014

SKILLS

Languages: Go, Python

Infrastructure: Kubernetes,

Terraform

Practice: Observability, Incident

response

LANGUAGES

English

Professional working proficiency