Curriculum Vitæ Lisbon, Portugal

Rowan Okafor

Platform Engineering Lead

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

Trajectory

Working span
12 yearsFrom 2014, the earliest dated role, to now.
Direction
entry → seniorRead from the titles themselves: "Junior Developer" to "Platform Engineering Lead, Developer Infrastructure".
Studied while working
BScCompleted in 2014, inside a period already covered by a dated role.

Every figure here is arithmetic over the dates and titles in this profile. None of it is an assessment of the person — no traits are inferred, and nothing is claimed that the entries above do not already say.

01

skills

Languages

  • Go
  • Python

Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform

Practice

  • Observability
  • Incident response

Levels are self-assessed.

02

experience

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Jan 2016 → Jul 2019

    Backend Engineer

    Kestrel Data

    • Built the ingestion pipeline behind the reporting product.

  4. Jun 2014 → Dec 2015

    Junior Developer

    Northgate Retail

03

education

  • BSc, Computer ScienceUniversity of Porto · 2014
04

credentials

  • Certified Kubernetes AdministratorCNCF · 2021