Rowan Okafor

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.

• 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.

Levels are self-assessed.

• BSc, Computer ScienceUniversity of Porto · 2014

• Certified Kubernetes AdministratorCNCF · 2021

• Making deployment a routineEngineering Notes · 2024

• EnglishProfessional working proficiency

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

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