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Michael Akin-Ademola

@michaelakin-ademola

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Senior Kubernetes/Platform Engineer delivering multi-cloud GitOps automation and production AI tooling at scale.

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a platform/SRE role where I can own Kubernetes and GitOps delivery at scale, modernize CI/CD and IaC with strong security, and apply AI-first tooling to production engineering workflows.

I’m a senior Kubernetes / Platform Engineer with 8 years running Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure at scale, with a strong bias for automation, reliability, and repeatable delivery.

I’ve operated ~70 customer Kubernetes clusters across GKE, AWS, and Azure under a strict GitOps model using Argo CD and Flux CD, including building a custom Kubernetes operator to automate deployments.

On the platform side, I’ve owned end-to-end release management for a large open-source AI/ML ecosystem—delivering 6 consecutive on-time releases with hundreds of build artifacts per release across conda, PyPI, Docker Hub, and a private registry.

AI-first matters to me in practice: I’ve built engineering workflows that use agentic AI (CLI coding agents, MCP tool orchestration, sub-agents) and I ship production AI products. I currently support work spanning CI/CD modernization, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform + OIDC), security hardening, and SRE-grade operations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior DevOps Engineer

Swoom

Jun 2022 - Feb 2026 (3 years 8 months)

Owned end-to-end release engineering and CI/CD process improvements for a large open-source AI/ML ecosystem, delivering multiple on-time releases. Led modernization across tooling, automation, and infrastructure-as-code, including multi-architecture builds and secure AWS authentication.

Release Management CI CD Jenkins GitHub Actions Ansible Terraform OIDC AWS S3 Nginx PyPI Trusted Publishing Multi Architecture Builds Hotfix Management Infrastructure as Code

Site Reliability Engineer

Twitter

Feb 2022 - May 2022 (3 months)

SRE embedded with the source control team to run federated git infrastructure for the engineering organization. Implemented encryption-at-rest, improved git backup safety, and replaced legacy tooling with a multithreaded Python automation packaged via Pants/Commons.

Python Mesos Phabricator Puppet HDFS Based Git Storage Pants Twitter Commons

Cloud Operations / SRE Engineer

LucidWorks

Jul 2021 - Jan 2022 (6 months)

Operated and evolved a GitOps-based cloud platform for LucidWorks Fusion serving ~70 customer Kubernetes clusters across GKE and Azure. Built a custom Kubernetes operator and automated provisioning, scaling, and performance tuning for production search workloads.

GitOps Terraform Google CloudBuild Flux CD Kubernetes Helm Kubernetes Operators GKE AWS Azure Apache SOLR Apache Pulsar Prometheus Grafana Datadog

Senior Software Developer

Vas2nets Technologies

Apr 2021 - Jul 2021 (3 months)

Worked as a senior software developer using Java/Jakarta EE, Spring Boot, and web application technologies across backend and frontend stacks.

Java Spring Boot Laravel PHP Angular

Senior Software Dev Consultant

Pixels Solution LTD

Sep 2020 - Apr 2021 (7 months)

Served as a senior software developer/consultant building applications using .NET/C#, Java, Blazor, and JavaScript frameworks, including cloud integrations on GCP and Azure.

C#.NET Java Blazor Angular GCP Azure

Software Architect

Crossover for Work

Jul 2020 - Sep 2020 (2 months)

Provided software architecture using .NET/C#, Spring Boot, Angular/TypeScript, and AWS for cloud-based systems.

.NET C#Spring Boot Angular TypeScript AWS

Lead Full Stack Developer

Quomodo Systems Limited

Apr 2019 - Jul 2020 (1 year 3 months)

Led full-stack development using C# and ASP.NET Core with Angular/TypeScript, and supported containerized deployments with Docker and Kubernetes on Azure.

C#ASP.NET Core Angular TypeScript Docker Kubernetes Azure

Software Engineer Intern

Staunton and Lycett

Jul 2018 - Nov 2018 (4 months)

Built and supported software development tasks as an intern, working with PHP and a Yii2-based stack backed by MySQL.

PHP MySQL

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Andela

AI Engineering Bootcamp, AI Engineering

Completed an AI Engineering Bootcamp focused on LLM application development, including LangChain, OpenAI APIs, vector databases, RAG, and agentic systems.