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I’m Tayo Afolabi, a results-driven Site Reliability/Infrastructure Engineer specializing in building scalable, secure cloud and virtualization platforms. I design and operate OpenStack and Kubernetes clusters and lead automation with Terraform, Ansible, FluxCD, and GitOps. I’m passionate about delivering highly available systems and helping teams move faster through reliable foundations. I enjoy collaborating with developers and operators to optimize performance, security, and cost, and I’m always learning new cloud-native patterns to share with the community.…I’m Tayo Afolabi, a results-driven Site Reliability/Infrastructure Engineer specializing in building scalable, secure cloud and virtualization platforms. I design and operate OpenStack and Kubernetes clusters and lead automation with Terraform, Ansible, FluxCD, and GitOps. I’m passionate about delivering highly available systems and helping teams move faster through reliable foundations. I enjoy collaborating with developers and operators to optimize performance, security, and cost, and I’m always learning new cloud-native patterns to share with the community.

Tayo Afolabi

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I’m Tayo Afolabi, a results-driven Site Reliability/Infrastructure Engineer specializing in building scalable, secure cloud and virtualization platforms. I design and operate OpenStack and Kubernetes clusters and lead automation with Terraform, Ansible, FluxCD, and GitOps. I’m passionate about delivering highly available systems and helping teams move faster through reliable foundations. I enjoy collaborating with developers and operators to optimize performance, security, and cost, and I’m always learning new cloud-native patterns to share with the community.…I’m Tayo Afolabi, a results-driven Site Reliability/Infrastructure Engineer specializing in building scalable, secure cloud and virtualization platforms. I design and operate OpenStack and Kubernetes clusters and lead automation with Terraform, Ansible, FluxCD, and GitOps. I’m passionate about delivering highly available systems and helping teams move faster through reliable foundations. I enjoy collaborating with developers and operators to optimize performance, security, and cost, and I’m always learning new cloud-native patterns to share with the community.

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I’m Tayo Afolabi, a results-driven Site Reliability/Infrastructure Engineer specializing in building scalable, secure cloud and virtualization platforms. I design and operate OpenStack and Kubernetes clusters and lead automation with Terraform, Ansible, FluxCD, and GitOps. I’m passionate about delivering highly available systems and helping teams move faster through reliable foundations.

I enjoy collaborating with developers and operators to optimize performance, security, and cost, and I’m always learning new cloud-native patterns to share with the community.

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Work Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer at Genesis Cloud

February 1, 2022 - Present

Providing and operating large-scale OpenStack and Kubernetes clusters, ensuring scalability, high availability, and reliable performance. Building and maintaining custom Kubernetes operators; automating lifecycle management of complex workloads. Managing HPC servers with NVIDIA GPUs (A100, B200) and configuring NVIDIA UFM switches for fabric management and optimized GPU interconnects. Automating virtualization with KVM and KubeVirt; configuring Ceph storage. Implementing monitoring/observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK). Configuring SONiC switches for high-performance networking. Applying security patches and hardening. Automating infrastructure and delivery with FluxCD GitOps, GitHub Actions, and Git; automating routine operations with Ansible and Python. Providing technical leadership on scaling, performance optimization, and capacity planning.

Lead Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Consultant) at Seamless Distribution Systems SDS

April 1, 2019 - January 1, 2022

Implemented and maintained automated systems for incident response, monitoring, and performance tuning. Collaborated with development teams to design scalable and reliable systems; identified bottlenecks and inefficiencies; built and maintained tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations. Developed runbooks and incident response procedures; participated in on-call rotation; drove changes to improve service availability and performance; provided guidance and training on reliability best practices.

DevOps Engineer at Erp soft app Limited

May 1, 2017 - December 1, 2018

Designed, configured and deployed AWS multi-tier environments focusing on high availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling. Migrated on-premise applications to AWS; collaborated with developers to bring new features into production. Implemented automation, provisioning, deployment, and scaling with Jenkins. Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monoliths into microservices; managed configuration with Ansible.

Linux System / Infrastructure Engineer at Qrios Networks Limited

March 1, 2013 - December 1, 2015

Designed, installed, configured and maintained Linux servers and services; managed Linux systems in cloud infrastructure; storage and backup solutions (local and remote, RAID, LVM); virtualization (KVM, Xen, VMware); networking (routing, switching, VPN); participated in on-call rotation; implemented security improvements and ongoing hardening; mentored teams.