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
01

projects

  • Developer platform

    Technical lead · 2024 → present

    A shared release workflow with service ownership, build documentation and a clear path from commit to deployment.

    Project overview

  • 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.

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.
03

skills

Languages

  • Go
  • Python

Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform

Practice

  • Observability
  • Incident response

Levels are self-assessed.

04

education

  • BSc, Computer ScienceUniversity of Porto · 2014
05

credentials

  • Certified Kubernetes AdministratorCNCF · 2021
06

writing

07

languages

  • EnglishProfessional working proficiency

Languages are as stated by Rowan; nothing here is verified.