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Mofesola Babalola

@mofesolababalola

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Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on scalable, reliable systems.

Ireland

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for a hands-on SRE/Platform role where I can drive reliability, observability, automation, and scale systems for millions while mentoring teams and improving incident and SLO practices.

I'm a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with deep experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available systems for millions of users.

I architect observability and service mesh solutions using Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Istio, and manage AWS/EKS infrastructure while optimizing cost and reliability.

I automate deployments and infrastructure with Terraform, Helm, Argo and have built Kubernetes operators in Go to govern complex production deployments.

I champion SRE practices—SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, incident response, and on-call improvements—while contributing to open source and data-driven decisions that improve product and infrastructure performance.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Staff Engineer

Current

Tempo

Mar 2023 - Present (3 years 3 months)

Architected and implemented observability solutions monitoring over 200 microservices and maintained 99.999% uptime while managing service mesh handling 5M+ requests/day and optimizing cloud cost across AWS/EKS.

Observability Datadog Prometheus Istio Terraform Helm Argo Service Mesh

Staff Engineer

Wayfair

Sep 2021 - Feb 2023 (1 year 5 months)

Managed service mesh infrastructure with Istio on Kubernetes and built Kubernetes operators in Go to gate deployments and manage production ingress/gateway objects at scale.

Istio Kubernetes Go Operator Terraform CI CD Kubernetes Operators

Lead, Site Reliability Engineer

Wargaming

Jan 2019 - Aug 2021 (2 years 7 months)

Coordinated infrastructure best practices across global studios, set SLOs/SLIs, and improved on-call and incident response while managing multi-cloud deployments using DevOps tooling.

SRE Incident Response Terraform Observability DevOps CI CD

Senior Software Engineer

eHealth Africa

Nov 2016 - Oct 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Built one-click deployment pipelines and automated application monitoring and SSO for HospitalRun using Docker, Terraform, AWS ECS and New Relic to enable scalable HIPAA-compliant deployments.

Docker Terraform AWS ECS New Relic CI CD Ansible Elasticsearch CouchDB BASH

Team Lead, DevOps And Automation

Venture Garden Group

Jul 2014 - Nov 2016 (2 years 4 months)

Led migrations from single-instance servers to multi-server architectures and created one-click deployment pipelines using Octopus Deploy, Jenkins and GoCD to standardize deployments across the group.

Octopus Deploy Jenkins GoCD CI CD Automation Docker Configuration Management

Team Lead

Topupxtra

Aug 2011 - May 2014 (2 years 9 months)

Built public-facing APIs for topups and bulk recharge integrations, managed scheduled topups across time zones, and operated infrastructure using Nginx and SQL/NoSQL datastores.

API Development Nginx MySQL MongoDB Redis RabbitMQ BASH Linux