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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

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
BUKOLA JIMOH