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.

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

EDUCATION

2014

BSc, Computer Science

University of Porto

CERTIFICATIONS

2021

Certified Kubernetes

Administrator

CNCF

LANGUAGES

English

Professional working proficiency

Rowan Okafor

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.

PUBLICATIONS

2024

Making deployment a routine

Engineering Notes

https://example.com/notes