OLALEYE OYEWUNMI
DevOps Engineer
SUMMARY
Performance-driven DevOps Engineer with years of experience managing high-scale, distributed cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven track record improving system resilience, automating toil, and managing critical incidents in enterprise environments. Skilled in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), and observability (Prometheus/Grafana), with experience implementing SLIs/SLOs to drive a culture of reliability. KCNA-certified and an AWS Community Builder, currently completing a Post-Graduate Certificate in Cloud Computing Technologies in Toronto while contributing to CNCF open-source projects through Google Summer of Code.
CORE TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Reliability: SLIs/SLOs, Incident Management, Incident Commander
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Datadog, Distributed Tracing
Cloud / Kubernetes: AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, ECR, IAM, VPC), Azure (AKS), GCP, Docker, Helm
Automation: Terraform, Ansible, Bicep, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps), Go, Python, Bash
Architecture: Distributed Systems, Microservices, RESTful APIs
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, SQL Optimization
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Open Source Contributor — Google Summer of Code (GSoC) — Meshery / Layer5 (CNCF)
June 2026 – Present- Author AWS relationship definitions in Go and JSON for Kanvas covering IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, SSM, ECS, EKS, and Lambda, shipped across multiple merged pull requests.
- Diagnose and fix recurring evaluation-engine (OPA/Rego) issues, including a high-severity mutatorRef/mutatedRef pattern flagged across several reviews.
- Work directly with project maintainers on code review, issue triage, and community communication on a mentor's behalf.
- Contribute to core CNCF projects Kubernetes (
kubernetes/website) and Envoy Proxy (kgateway), landing merged documentation and code changes alongside Meshery work.
Devops Engineer — HarmonyKloud — Remote
Sept 2025 – Present- Design and operate high-availability systems across multi-tenant EKS clusters using HPA and PDBs, sustaining 99.9% uptime SLO for critical financial workloads.
- Define and track SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, driving cross-team alignment on reliability targets and enabling data-driven incident prioritization.
- Lead incident response as Incident Commander, coordinating cross-functional teams, running blameless post-mortems, and shipping follow-up improvements to reduce repeat incidents.
- Build and maintain observability tooling — Grafana dashboards, custom Prometheus alerts, and distributed tracing pipelines — that reduced MTTR by surfacing bottlenecks in real time.
- Automate operational toil with Terraform modules, eliminating manual provisioning and reducing security misconfigurations by 40% across managed environments.
Cloud Engineer — Techpeak Lab — Remote
Jan 2025 – Mar 2025- Conducted comprehensive audits of Identity Policies and Identity Governance, ensuring adherence to the Principle of Least Privilege.
- Evaluated Network Security Groups (NSGs) and firewall rules, identifying and remediating 15+ unauthorized ingress points.
- Architected logging pipelines using Azure Monitor to provide persistent, immutable audit trails for all critical change management events.
- Mapped Azure cloud environments to SOC 2 Type II requirements, preparing evidence and reports for external auditors and engineering leadership.
Software Engineer — Opensaucery.africa — Full-time, Remote
Nov 2023 – Dec 2024- Oversaw software delivery for end users, owning the release process from development through deployment.
- Built and maintained full-stack application features while owning deployment pipelines and infrastructure for the team.
- Drove Git-based version control workflows, led code reviews, and supported iterative, sprint-based delivery within a small engineering team.
Frontend Developer — Harmonics Technology — Contract, Remote
Feb 2022 – Dec 2023- Shipped pixel-perfect, responsive UIs in React/JavaScript from Figma designs, taking client products from mockup to production across web and mobile breakpoints.
- Built a reusable component library that cut duplicate styling and sped up feature turnaround across multiple client projects.
- Integrated REST APIs and managed application state end-to-end, translating product requirements straight into working interfaces.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
Post-Graduate Certificate, Cloud Computing Technologies: George Brown College, Toronto (Casa Loma Campus) — In progress
B.Sc. Physics: Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), 2017 – 2023
Certifications: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA); Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate; AWS Community Builder (2025–Present)