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

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CNCF

2021

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

SKILLS

Languages: Go, Python

Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform

Practice: Observability, Incident response

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

LANGUAGES

English

Professional working proficiency