I am Temitayo Charles Akinniranye, an enterprise DevOps and cloud platform engineer with over 11 years in IT, including 7+ years in DevOps and cloud automation. I specialize in fintech and SaaS environments and have a proven track record of cutting deployment times, eliminating production incidents, and enabling rapid, secure delivery at scale. I have delivered substantial cost savings while improving platform reliability and security posture across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I am passionate about mentoring engineers, reducing costs, and building resilient infrastructures that drive business outcomes. Throughout my career I have driven GitOps, DevSecOps, and SRE practices, implemented zero-trust security models, and designed multi-region disaster recovery strategies. I thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy translating complex technical concepts into practical, scalable solutions that enable teams to ship safely and frequently.

Temitayo Charles Akinniranye

I am Temitayo Charles Akinniranye, an enterprise DevOps and cloud platform engineer with over 11 years in IT, including 7+ years in DevOps and cloud automation. I specialize in fintech and SaaS environments and have a proven track record of cutting deployment times, eliminating production incidents, and enabling rapid, secure delivery at scale. I have delivered substantial cost savings while improving platform reliability and security posture across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I am passionate about mentoring engineers, reducing costs, and building resilient infrastructures that drive business outcomes. Throughout my career I have driven GitOps, DevSecOps, and SRE practices, implemented zero-trust security models, and designed multi-region disaster recovery strategies. I thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy translating complex technical concepts into practical, scalable solutions that enable teams to ship safely and frequently.

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I am Temitayo Charles Akinniranye, an enterprise DevOps and cloud platform engineer with over 11 years in IT, including 7+ years in DevOps and cloud automation. I specialize in fintech and SaaS environments and have a proven track record of cutting deployment times, eliminating production incidents, and enabling rapid, secure delivery at scale. I have delivered substantial cost savings while improving platform reliability and security posture across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I am passionate about mentoring engineers, reducing costs, and building resilient infrastructures that drive business outcomes.

Throughout my career I have driven GitOps, DevSecOps, and SRE practices, implemented zero-trust security models, and designed multi-region disaster recovery strategies. I thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy translating complex technical concepts into practical, scalable solutions that enable teams to ship safely and frequently.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer at Kanshe Info tech
April 1, 2021 - Present
Led GitOps adoption with ArgoCD and Helm; reduced deployment time from 4 hours to 15 minutes, enabling 200+ production deployments per month with zero rollback incidents. Increased platform reliability from 99.9% to 99.99% and delivered ~$216K annual AWS cost savings through infrastructure audits, Spot Instance adoption, and rightsizing across 150+ EC2 instances. Built reusable Terraform modules, implemented multi-region disaster recovery (RTO 15 minutes for 8 production services), and embedded security checks (Trivy, Checkov, SonarQube, Vault) in CI/CD pipelines. Mentored 5 junior engineers, reducing turnover and promoting 3 to senior roles. Implemented zero-trust security with Istio and Vault, achieving SOC2 readiness ahead of schedule. Maintained 99.99% SLA for infrastructure serving 2M+ API requests/day with MTTR < 30 minutes for P0 incidents.
DevOps Engineer at Kanshe Infotech
June 1, 2018 - March 31, 2021
Led cloud migration strategy, moving 12 monolithic applications to AWS-based microservices, reducing deployment cycles by 60% and infrastructure costs by 35%. Automated provisioning with Terraform + Ansible; built GitLab CI/CD pipelines enabling 15+ microservices to deploy independently. Enforced secrets management with AWS SSM Parameter Store and IAM policies. Optimized image storage costs via Docker/ECR lifecycle management. Improved data processing throughput with AWS Lambda + Step Functions; reduced MTTR from 2 hours to 25 minutes through enhanced monitoring and runbook automation. Achieved 98.5% deployment success across 15+ microservices handling 500K+ daily transactions.
Linux Systems Engineer & Scrum Facilitator at British Council Bahrain
February 1, 2014 - May 31, 2018
Administered 200+ Linux servers ensuring uptime and compliance for international applications. Automated backups, log rotation, and monitoring with Bash/Python, reducing workload by 40%. Led Agile ceremonies as Scrum Master, increasing sprint delivery velocity by 20%. Developed SOPs and DR plans ensuring audit readiness and compliance. Trained junior sysadmins on automation and IT change management best practices. Achieved 99.7% uptime across 200+ Linux servers supporting 50K+ global users across 6 countries with zero security breaches.

Education

B.Sc. Geology and Applied Geophysics at University of Ado-Ekiti
January 11, 2030 - January 31, 2026
National Certificate in Computer/Integrated Sciences at Bamidele Olumilua University
January 11, 2030 - January 31, 2026

Qualifications

HashiCorp Vault Associate
January 11, 2030 - January 31, 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
January 11, 2030 - January 31, 2026
PMP
January 11, 2030 - January 31, 2026
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
January 11, 2030 - January 31, 2026
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
January 11, 2030 - January 31, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
January 11, 2030 - January 31, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services