Temitayo Charles Akinniranye

Senior DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer

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.

Professional Experience

Senior DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer
April 2021 - Present
EK Tech Software Solutions
  • 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%, maintaining 99.99% SLA for infrastructure serving 2M+ API requests/day with MTTR under 30 minutes
  • 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% and led infrastructure-as-code initiative achieving 100% environment parity
  • Drove GitOps adoption using ArgoCD and Helm, enabling 40+ production releases/week without weekend work
  • Implemented zero-trust security model using Istio service mesh and Vault, achieving SOC2 compliance 3 months ahead of schedule
  • Mentored 5 junior engineers; 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

Tech: AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation, S3), Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Trivy, Checkov, SonarQube

DevOps Engineer
June 2018 - March 2021
EK Tech Software Solutions
  • Led cloud migration of 12 monolithic applications from on-prem to AWS microservices, reducing deployment cycles by 60% and costs by 35%
  • Automated provisioning with Terraform + Ansible, cutting manual intervention and errors by 85%
  • Built GitLab CI/CD pipelines for 15+ microservices with 98.5% deployment success rate handling 500K+ daily transactions
  • Optimized image storage costs by 30% via Docker/ECR lifecycle management
  • Improved data processing throughput by 40% with AWS Lambda + Step Functions
  • Reduced MTTR from 2 hours to 25 minutes through improved monitoring and runbook automation

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

Linux Systems Engineer & Scrum Facilitator
February 2014 - May 2018
British Council
  • Administered 200+ Linux servers achieving 99.7% uptime supporting 50K+ global users across 6 countries with zero security breaches
  • 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%
  • Developed SOPs and disaster recovery plans ensuring audit readiness and compliance
  • Trained junior sysadmins on automation and IT change management best practices

Tech: Linux (RHEL, CentOS), Bash, Python, Active Directory, Apache, Samba, Puppet, Jira

Key Achievements

💰 Cost Optimization Excellence
Delivered $216K+ annual savings through AWS infrastructure optimization, Spot Instance adoption, and compute rightsizing across 150+ EC2 instances
🎯 Reliability & Performance
Increased platform reliability from 99.9% to 99.99% with MTTR under 30 minutes for P0 incidents, serving 2M+ API requests/day
🚀 Deployment Transformation
Reduced deployment time from 4 hours to 15 minutes with zero rollback incidents across 200+ monthly deployments using GitHub Actions and Jenkins
🔒 Security & Compliance
Achieved SOC2 compliance 3 months ahead of schedule through zero-trust security model implementation with Istio service mesh and Vault
👥 Team Leadership & Mentorship
Mentored 5 engineers with 3 promoted to senior roles within 18 months, improving team retention by 40% through internal training program