A field journal, not a blog.
Most cloud writing is one of two things: marketing or motivation. This is neither. It's a working journal of patterns from real Azure, AKS, and AI-platform engagements — written for the next person who has to ship the same thing.
DevOps · 2025The numbers, in plain words
Pipelines that don't break on Friday. Bicep that compiles the first time. Foundry agents behind a private link. Most of it written down so you don't have to learn it the hard way.
Career timeline
- Jan 2023 — Sep 2025Experian PlcSenior DevOps Engineer
Hybrid-cloud DR/BCP across Azure, AWS and VMware. Wrote a Go automation that scales Azure SQL service tiers on schedule, and centralised reusable Terraform modules across global teams.
- Jan 2022 — Jan 2023Wolters KluwerSenior DevOps Engineer
Azure DevOps pipelines across multiple subscriptions, Terragrunt-based IaC stages (40% faster provisioning), and a blue/green migration of production App Gateway from v1 to v2.
- Jun 2018 — Nov 2020CyberSoc AfricaSenior DevOps & Security Engineer
Built CI/CD and IaC roadmaps with Packer, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes. Scaled customer K8s + KubeVirt clusters for zero-downtime traffic peaks.
- Jan 2018 — Jun 2018RedtechDevOps & Cloud Engineer
Migrated Jive customers off VMware legacy infrastructure to AWS. Reduced time-to-ship by 26% through CI/CD work.
- Jan 2016 — Jan 2018Firstbank NigeriaInformation Security Analyst
Online/mobile banking fraud detection. Team won two of three Nigerian Electronic Fraud Forum awards in 2017.
- Apr 2014 — Jul 2016Microsoft (Tek Experts)Azure Cloud Engineer — Identity
Advanced support for Azure Identity, Active Directory, ADFS, ADDS, ADCS, O365 — 4.6/5 customer satisfaction. Where the Azure habit started.
The stack I work in
Certifications & recognitions
- 01Microsoft MVP — DevOps (2025)
- 02Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
- 03Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
- 04Microsoft Certified Trainer
- 05Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- 06Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- 07Certified Kubernetes Security (CKS) — In progress
- 08Linux Foundation Certified Systems Administrator (LFCS)
- 09HashiCorp Terraform Associate
- 10GitHub Foundation
- 11GitHub Administration
- 12MCSA Windows Server 2012
- 13CCNA Routing & Switching
- 14CCNA Cyber Ops
What this site covers
Working on something Azure- or AKS-shaped?
I take on a small number of advisory engagements each quarter. If your team is wrestling with landing zones, AKS platform work, or Azure AI workloads, get in touch.