KOLAWOLE OLOWOPOROKU
Chicago,IL
Summary
Dynamic Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native infrastructure for enterprise-level applications. Proven expertise in cloud architecture, container orchestration, infrastructure automation, cloud security, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps. Proficient at leading cross-functional teams, driving DevOps transformation, and implementing best practices to optimize system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency. Passionate about building resilient systems, fostering collaboration, and enabling continuous innovation.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SENIOR SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER
SEKAI
03.2023 - Current
- Eliminated cloud costs for a full year by migrating applications, services, and data from AWS (EKS, S3, EC2) to GCP, achieving significant savings.
- Streamlined identity and access management by automating user provisioning, enforcing RBAC policies, and integrating SSO across hybrid environments using Active Directory, reducing onboarding time by 75%
- Slashed deployment time from 2 weeks to 2 days for the Sekai platform by repackaging services in Helm, and adopting GitOps workflows.
- Accelerated cluster provisioning from 5 days to under 2 hours by standardizing Terraform templates for environment bootstrapping.
SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, STARTUPS
AMAZON WEB SERVICES
07.2022 - 02.2023
- Advised 6-8 startups weekly across EMEA on AWS best practices, conducting architectural reviews and deep-dive technical discussions, resulting in a 30%+ increase in AWS adoption across engaged customers.
- Featured as a technical advisor at AWS events, guiding startup founders on cloud architecture, leveraging the "Working Backwards" method to align solutions with business needs, and advocating for product enhancements based on customer feedback.
- Served on the AWS Container Technical Field Community (TFC), providing expert guidance on scalable, secure, and cost-optimized container architectures (EKS, ECS, Fargate), supporting 300/400-level advisory calls for high-complexity workloads.
Senior DevOps Engineer
IT HORIZONS LIMITED
01.2021 - 06.2022
- Optimized enterprise DNS and directory services by deploying redundant Domain Controllers with strategic, site-aware replication, cutting authentication latency by 50%, and eliminating single points of failure.
- Reduced Citrix login times by 30% and strengthened security compliance by integrating Active Directory for centralized authentication and Group Policy management across virtual apps.
- Enhanced observability by deploying kube-prometheus-stack with Alertmanager for proactive monitoring, and OpenTelemetry (OTel) + Jaeger for distributed tracing, enabling faster issue resolution.
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
DOVE NETWORKS LIMITED
08.2018 - 01.2021
- Designed and deployed end-to-end virtualized systems using vSphere across multiple servers and SAN storage environments, enabling seamless cross-site application failover and high availability.
- Implemented multi-site replication of virtual infrastructure, standardizing deployments across multiple locations for consistency and resilience.
- Achieved 99.9% uptime by deploying Nagios and Splunk for comprehensive monitoring, reducing incident resolution times by 20% through proactive alerting and diagnostics.
- Slashed security incident response time by 65% by overhauling Active Directory with granular Group Policies, automated account lifecycle management, and conditional access controls
- Automated operational workflows using Bash and Python, optimizing log rotation, backups, and system updates to reduce manual overhead.
Education
B.Sc. - Mechanical Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS
Skills
- Gitlab CI
- Golang
- Active Directory
- Gitlab Actions
- ArgoCD
- FluxCD
- Terraform
- Cloudformation
- Kaniko
- Javascript
- NodeJS
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Azure
- GKE
- EKS
- Docker
- GCP
- Cloud Migration Technologies
- VMware vSphere
- NSX technologies
- KVM
- Citrix
Certification
- Google Cloud Professional Architect
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
- AWS Sysops Administrator - Associate
- Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- MCSE Core Infrastructure 2020
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- AWS Developer Associate
- AWS Solutions Architect - Professional
- Well-Architected Proficient
- VMware Certified Professional – Datacenter Virtualization
Accomplishments
- CNCF Ambassador
- CNCF Kubestronaut
- SME, Exam Contributor OpenTelemetry
- VMware vExpert 2022
Timeline
SENIOR SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER
SEKAI
03.2023 - Current
SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, STARTUPS
AMAZON WEB SERVICES
07.2022 - 02.2023
Senior DevOps Engineer
IT HORIZONS LIMITED
01.2021 - 06.2022
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
DOVE NETWORKS LIMITED
08.2018 - 01.2021
B.Sc. - Mechanical Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS
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