BUKOLA JIMOH
Birmingham,UK
Summary
Innovative and impact-driven Platform & DevOps Engineer with over 6 years’ experience in cloud infrastructure, systems automation, and backend architecture. Passionate about accelerating team velocity by automating operational toil, embedding self-service platforms and tooling into developer workflows, and taking ownership of end-to-end deployment processes. Adept at implementing infrastructure as code, continuous delivery, and creating reliable engineering systems that scale. Also experienced at building scalable, secure, and high- performance cloud-native and IoT platforms using Go, AWS, Linux internals, and distributed systems.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Senior Software Engineer
DoiT International
Remote
10.2025 - Current
- Co-developed resource-level FinOps insights.
- Implemented data migration for accounts permissions, optimising performance of Insights data ingestion.
- Created Looker permissions dashboard for tracking customer on-boarding and engagements with Insights.
- Implemented and managed Composer infrastructure as code using Terraform, ensuring deployments are configurable for different environments in AWS
Senior Software Engineer (DevOps & IoT)
Covatic Ltd
Remote, Birmingham
07.2023 - 09.2025
- Led backend engineering efforts for Connected TVs (Samsung TV, Titan OS), designing and developing Go daemon applications for Linux IoT whilst ensuring portability across different architectures
- Developed client-targeted self-service build pipelines with integrated E2E tests, streamlining deployment for cross-platform environments
- Integrated telemetry for integrated models with support for remote monitoring and observability in AWS.
- Implemented data reliability and systems resilience using NATS for queues during database management and rotation.
- Implemented features for local model integration whilst still maintaining high application performance.
- Secured system operations through credential vaulting, health monitors, and encrypted data storage.
- Optimised AWS billing efficiency, resulting in savings of $7,000/month by migrating company's AWS-hosted service layer using less resource-intensive AWS services.
- Built end-to-end logging and diagnostics with custom Go log shipper, enhancing traceability and quicker issue resolution across devices.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Iceland Foods Ltd
Remote, UK
07.2022 - 06.2023
- Designed and developed self-service interactive deployment tools to optimise feedback loops.
- Architected and led implementation of insights platform using Postgres, DynamoDB, Athena, and Glue, and created real-time monitoring dashboards using Grafana for accelerated business decision-making.
- Designed, architected and led implementation of customer notification service which improved order completion rate by 10%.
- Increased deployment speed by almost 60% by parallelising pipeline processes for E2E testing.
- Led and introduced on Behaviour-Driven Development testing by working closely with test engineers and product managers.
DevOps Engineer
Iceland Foods Ltd
Remote, UK
07.2021 - 07.2022
- Executed QA transformations and DevOps integrations, implementing BDD and automated deployment across teams.
- Reduced test execution time from 90 minutes to 15 minutes by modernising CI pipelines and test architecture for parallelisation.
- Improved platform reliability through InfluxDB, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Athena dashboards.
- Hardened AWS security with custom IAM roles and infrastructure repeatability using CloudFormation and Service Catalog.
- Managed multi-account AWS environments using AWS Control Tower and SSO integrations, with carefully implemented governance and security policies across all accounts.
Backend Software Engineer
Glowday
Birmingham, UK
10.2020 - 06.2021
- Enhanced site reliability by reducing latency through building internal caching service for reviews system.
- Boosted booking efficiency through implementing real-time event-driven infrastructure on Azure and Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch).
- Deployed containerised web applicatons via Azure App Services; built and maintained CI/CD with Azure DevOps and monitored with AppInsights
- Developed and maintained new features for SaaS product.
Software Engineer
The Economist
Birmingham, UK
07.2019 - 10.2020
- Wrote and maintained infrastructure code (AWS CloudFormation and Terraform) for microservices and created CI/CD pipelines with CircleCI and GitHub Actions.
- Built observability features including Slack-integrated release alerts and Lambda-based log shippers to Logzio.
- Secured AWS services with custom IAM and increased test coverage with integration and service-level testing.
- Developed and maintained new features for the Economist account management service website.
Junior Software Engineer
School of Code
Birmingham, UK
02.2019 - 05.2019
- Built an HR management grid using MERN stack in agile sprints
- Continuous pair programming
- Test-driven development (TDD)
Education
Master of Arts - TESOL and Translation Studies
Aston University
Birmingham UK 09.2010 - 09.2011
Websites
Certification
- AWS Solutions Architect (Associate)
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
- AWS Machine Learning Engineer (Associate)
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
- Cost Reduction Achievement: Reduced operational costs by $7,000 per month through system-level optimization.
- CI Pipeline Optimisation: Improved test execution from 90 minutes to 15 minutes through CI pipeline modernisation.
- Cross-Architecture Deployment: Deployed multi-architecture builds, enhancing AWS Greengrass solution compatibility.
- Improved Developer Velocity: Created a self-service platform and tooling for requesting and managing virtual machines for development, triggering E2E tests for a working branch and deployment reports for improving visibility across the company.
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
DoiT International
10.2025 - Current
Senior Software Engineer (DevOps & IoT)
Covatic Ltd
07.2023 - 09.2025
Lead DevOps Engineer
Iceland Foods Ltd
07.2022 - 06.2023
DevOps Engineer
Iceland Foods Ltd
07.2021 - 07.2022
Backend Software Engineer
Glowday
10.2020 - 06.2021
Software Engineer
The Economist
07.2019 - 10.2020
Junior Software Engineer
School of Code
02.2019 - 05.2019
Master of Arts - TESOL and Translation Studies
Aston University
09.2010 - 09.2011