Devon Okafor
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Solid platform engineer with real EKS migration experience, but has not owned distributed-systems design decisions at the depth the JD implies — more migration/operations than architecture.
- +Led a full EC2-to-EKS migration across 30+ services
- +Built the CD pipeline used org-wide
- +PostgreSQL read-replica experience under real production load
- −No mention of distributed systems design tradeoffs (consistency, queuing) beyond infra migration
- −4 years total backend experience vs. the JD's 6+ year bar
Resume
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Summary
Platform engineer focused on Kubernetes infrastructure and developer tooling. Enjoys turning fragile deploy processes into boring, reliable ones.
Experience
Senior Platform Engineer, Ridgeline Health (2022–2026): Migrated 30+ services from EC2 to EKS; built the internal CD pipeline used by every product team. On-call lead for platform incidents. Software Engineer, Bexar Systems (2019–2022): Built internal APIs in Python/Django; introduced PostgreSQL read replicas to fix a recurring outage pattern under Black Friday traffic.
Skills
Python, Kubernetes, AWS (EKS, RDS, S3), Terraform, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, Docker.
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