Temitayo Charles Akinniranye

Professional Summary

Enterprise DevOps and Cloud Platform Engineer with 11+ years in IT (7+ in DevOps and Cloud Automation) specializing in fintech and SaaS environments. Proven track record of cutting deployment times from hours to minutes, eliminating production incidents, and enabling rapid, secure delivery at scale. Delivered $200K+ in annual cost savings while improving platform reliability from 99.9% to 99.99%. Experienced in driving GitOps, DevSecOps, and SRE practices across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Known for mentoring engineers, reducing costs, and implementing resilient infrastructure that improves business outcomes.

Core Competencies

Professional Experience

Senior DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer

• Reduced deployment time from 4 hours to 15 minutes by implementing GitHub Actions and Jenkins pipelines, enabling 200+ production deployments/month with zero rollback incidents
• Increased platform reliability from 99.9% to 99.99%, preventing costly downtime and maintaining 99.99% SLA for infrastructure serving 2M+ API requests/day
• Saved 25% in monthly AWS costs (~$18K/month, $216K annually) through infrastructure audits, Spot Instance adoption, and compute rightsizing across 150+ EC2 instances
• Built reusable Terraform modules cutting provisioning effort by 70% across environments and led infrastructure-as-code initiative resulting in 100% environment parity
• Eliminated recurring 3 AM alerts with Prometheus/Grafana alerting and tuned health checks, reducing MTTR to under 30 minutes for P0 incidents
• Drove GitOps adoption using ArgoCD and Helm, enabling 40+ production releases/week without weekend work
• Embedded security checks (Trivy, Checkov, SonarQube, Vault) in CI/CD pipelines ensuring compliance and implemented zero-trust security model using Istio service mesh and Vault, achieving SOC2 compliance 3 months ahead of schedule
• Mentored 5 junior engineers through internal DevOps training program; 3 promoted to senior roles within 18 months, improving team retention by 40%
• Architected multi-region disaster recovery solution reducing RTO from 4 hours to 15 minutes across 8 production services
• Presented "Advanced GitOps Patterns" at internal tech summit, adopted by 3 other engineering teams

Technical Environment: AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation, S3), Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Trivy, Checkov, SonarQube, Python, Bash, Docker

DevOps Engineer

• Led cloud migration strategy moving 12 monolithic applications from on-prem to AWS microservices architecture, reducing deployment cycles by 60% and cutting infrastructure costs by 35%
• Automated provisioning with Terraform + Ansible, cutting manual intervention and configuration errors by 85%
• Built GitLab CI/CD pipelines enabling 15+ microservices to be deployed independently with 98.5% deployment success rate
• Enforced secrets management with AWS SSM Parameter Store and IAM policies ensuring secure credential handling
• Optimized image storage costs by 30% via Docker/ECR lifecycle management policies
• Improved data processing throughput by 40% with AWS Lambda + Step Functions serverless architecture
• Automated log parsing and migrations with Python/Bash, saving ~15 hours/week in operational overhead
• Reduced mean time to recovery (MTTR) from 2 hours to 25 minutes through improved monitoring and runbook automation
• Managed infrastructure handling 500K+ daily transactions across 15+ microservices

Technical Environment: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, SSM), GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, CloudWatch, Python, Bash, Jenkins

Linux Systems Engineer & Scrum Facilitator

• Administered 200+ Linux servers (RHEL, CentOS) ensuring 99.7% uptime and compliance for international applications supporting 50K+ global users across 6 countries
• Automated backups, log rotation, and monitoring with Bash/Python reducing operational workload by 40%
• Led Agile ceremonies as Scrum Master, increasing sprint delivery velocity by 20% and improving team collaboration
• Developed SOPs and disaster recovery plans ensuring audit readiness and compliance standards
• Trained junior sysadmins on automation and IT change management best practices
• Achieved zero security breaches across 200+ production servers through proactive security hardening and monitoring

Technical Environment: Linux (RHEL, CentOS), Bash, Python, Active Directory, Apache, Samba, DNS, FTP, Puppet, Jira

Education

Bachelor of Science: Geology and Applied Geophysics

National Certificate: Computer/Integrated Sciences

Certifications

• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Professional Development

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) - Udemy/KodeKloud & Linux Foundation (In Progress)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional - AWS (Planned Q1 2026)
• HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate - HashiCorp (In Progress)
• GitOps with ArgoCD and Helm - KodeKloud
• DevSecOps Essentials - Pluralsight
• Site Reliability Engineering Foundations - LinkedIn Learning
• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert - A Cloud Guru
• Continuous Delivery with Jenkins - Coursera
• Debugging Kubernetes - LinkedIn Learning

Key Achievements & Impact

• Cost Optimization: Delivered $216K+ annual savings through AWS infrastructure optimization, Spot Instance adoption, and compute rightsizing
• Reliability Improvement: Increased platform reliability from 99.9% to 99.99% with MTTR under 30 minutes for P0 incidents
• Deployment Excellence: Reduced deployment time from 4 hours to 15 minutes with zero rollback incidents across 200+ monthly deployments
• Security & Compliance: Achieved SOC2 compliance 3 months ahead of schedule through zero-trust security model implementation
• Team Leadership: Mentored 5 engineers with 3 promoted to senior roles, improving team retention by 40%
• Multi-Region DR: Architected disaster recovery solution reducing RTO from 4 hours to 15 minutes across 8 production services