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Amara Okafor

Principal Platform Engineer · Kubernetes & developer platforms

Lisbon, Portugal · she/her · 1st

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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.

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Principal Platform Engineer

Meridian Cloud · Full-time

2022Present · Remote

Lead the internal developer platform serving 600 engineers — golden paths on Kubernetes, Backstage portal, progressive delivery with Argo.

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Staff SRE

Northwind Systems · Full-time

20172022 · Berlin

Owned reliability for a multi-region platform; drove the migration to GitOps.

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University of Lagos

B.Sc., Computer Science

20072011

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Kubernetes· 142Platform Engineering· 98GitOps· 76Go· 54Observability· 61

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Amara Okafor

Principal Platform Engineer · Kubernetes & developer platforms

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#Platform Engineering

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.

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