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

Mar 2022 → present

Platform Engineering Lead, Developer Infrastructure

Meridian Systems · Lisbon

• 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.

Aug 2019 → Mar 2022

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Meridian Systems

• Migrated the estate from hand-managed hosts to declarative infrastructure, one service at a time.

• Wrote the runbooks the team still uses.

Rowan Okafor

SELECTED WORK

2024 → present

Developer platform

Technical lead

A shared release workflow with service ownership, build documentation and a clear path from commit to

deployment.

https://example.com/platform

2023 → present

Incident learning library

Programme owner

A searchable collection of incident reviews and operating guides, written with the engineers who use them.

2022 → present

Infrastructure migration

Engineering lead

A staged migration plan with service inventories, rollback procedures and team training.

EDUCATION

2014

BSc, Computer Science

University of Porto

CERTIFICATIONS

2021

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CNCF

PUBLICATIONS

2024

Making deployment a routine

Engineering Notes

https://example.com/notes

LANGUAGES

English

Professional working proficiency