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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.

Backend Engineer

Kestrel Data

Jan 2016 → Jul 2019

• Built the ingestion pipeline behind the reporting product.

Junior Developer

Northgate Retail

Jun 2014 → Dec 2015

Skills

Languages: Go, Python

Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform

Practice: Observability, Incident response

Education

BSc, Computer Science

University of Porto

2014