Bukola Okafor
SSenior Platform Engineer at Access Bank · Platform engineering · observability, Backstage
- Access Bank
- Abuja, Nigeria · WAT (UTC+1)
- 3+ years experience
- University of Lagos
- English, Yoruba
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Overview
I've spent 3 years on platform engineering, now at Access Bank. Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 36 million requests a day. Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion. Most at home with service mesh and Kubernetes. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.
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service meshBazelobservabilityBackstageKubernetes
Experience
- Senior Platform EngineerOct 2023 - PresentAccess Bank · 3 yr · Full-time · Abuja, Nigeria
- Grew the developer platform team from 3 to 33 engineers.
- Wrote the observability service that now handles 21 million requests a day.
- Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 14 a week to 3.
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Write-up: platform engineering in practice
2024A long-form guide to platform engineering for people starting out.
Platform engineering benchmark
2023Reproducible benchmarks comparing Backstage and observability on real workloads.
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Education
- University of LagosBSc, Electrical Engineering2018 - 2022
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