Reminder that a platform team's job is not to run Kubernetes. It's to make sure the other 600 engineers never have to think about it. The cluster is a means; the developer's afternoon is the end. If your internal docs start with "first, kubectl apply", you've already lost the morning.
Amara Okafor
Principal Platform Engineer · Kubernetes & developer platforms
Lisbon, Portugal · she/her · 1st
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About
I build the paved roads other engineers ship on. Fifteen years turning sprawling infrastructure into platforms people actually enjoy using — most of it in the open. Currently obsessed with making Kubernetes invisible to the developers who depend on it.
Experience
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Lead the internal developer platform serving 600 engineers — golden paths on Kubernetes, Backstage portal, progressive delivery with Argo.
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Owned reliability for a multi-region platform; drove the migration to GitOps.
Education
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University of Lagos
B.Sc., Computer Science
2007 – 2011
Skills
Kubernetes· 142Platform Engineering· 98GitOps· 76Go· 54Observability· 61
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