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

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.

Jan 2016 → Jul 2019

Backend Engineer

Kestrel Data

• Built the ingestion pipeline behind the reporting product.

Jun 2014 → Dec 2015

Junior Developer

Northgate Retail

Languages

Go, Python

Rowan Okafor

Infrastructure

Kubernetes, Terraform

Practice

Observability, Incident response

2014

BSc, Computer Science

University of Porto

2021

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CNCF