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Staff Platform Engineer at Meta · Platform engineering

Meta
Accra, Ghana · GMT (UTC+0)
11+ years experience
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
English, Twi, Arabic
Advising
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Overview

I've spent 13 years on platform engineering - first at Microsoft, now at Meta. Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 2. I play football every Sunday.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on platform engineering
  • Questions about platform engineering
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
KubernetesBackstageBazelGoobservabilityCI/CDCombine
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for new engineering managers: platform engineering and Combine

Topics
platform engineering, Bazel, CI/CD
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

13 years of platform engineering. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Accra, Ghana · remote OKci/cdkubernetesbackstage
Open

Experience

  1. Staff Platform Engineer
    Jan 2025 - Present
    Meta · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 37% in two quarters.
    • Built the experimentation framework 19 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Engineering Manager
    May 2023 - Jan 2025
    Dangote Group · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
    • Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 649ms to 80ms.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2021 - May 2023
    Microsoft · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
    • Grew the developer platform team from 4 to 16 engineers.
  4. Platform Engineer
    May 2018 - Sep 2021
    Mastercard · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 25 a week to 4.
    • Shipped 27 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
  5. Platform Engineer
    Mar 2016 - May 2018
    Microsoft · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
    • Moved 63% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. University of Nigeria, Nsukka
    BEng, Computer Science
    2009 - 2013

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