Owolade Sobowale, Developer in Baltimore, MD, United States
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Owolade Sobowale

Verified Expert  in Engineering

DevOps and Developer

Location
Baltimore, MD, United States
Toptal Member Since
December 8, 2021

Lade is an enthusiast and advocate of everything DevOps, with over nine years of experience in the DevOps space. He has worked with startups and big corporations. As a subject matter expert in Terraform and AWS services, he holds all AWS associate certifications. Lade has a solid background in networking and automating everything.

Portfolio

Notarize
CI/CD Pipelines, DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Jenkins, Containers...
SparkPost
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub...
Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT Lab)
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, Ansible, Bash, Python...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash, Jenkins, Git, Docker, Networking

The most amazing...

...project I've undertaken is re-architecting an organization's terraform infrastructure resulting in a substantial reduction in system deployment time.

Work Experience

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

2022 - 2022
Notarize
  • Architected and built a multi-environment AWS ECS cluster using Terraform.
  • Migrated all microservice containers from Heroku to AWS ECS.
  • Configured Telegraf to run inside containers in AWS ECS, collect application logs, and ship to AWS CloudWatch. Designed Datadog dashboards to inject the application logs from CloudWatch.
  • Wrote bash scripts to enable SSM running on AWS ECS containers.
  • Configured Sumo Logic to collect the AWS ECS container logs.
  • Wrote Terraform configurations and modules to manage the organization's GitHub repositories. Imported all existing repositories into Terraform to be managed through Terraform.
Technologies: CI/CD Pipelines, DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Jenkins, Containers, Terraform, Amazon EKS, CircleCI, New Relic, Kubernetes, Azure, Heroku, Datadog, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, NoSQL, Sumo Logic, Telegraf, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Microservices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Serverless Architecture, Amazon CloudWatch, Resource Management, Cloud Services

Site Reliability Engineer

2017 - 2022
SparkPost
  • Configured and managed various AWS services including EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and Route 53.
  • Utilized Terraform and Terragrunt to implement a microservices-based serverless architecture in multiple environments.
  • Provisioned and architected infrastructure on AWS by automation using Terraform and then triggered changes with Jenkins.
  • Wrote Python and Bash code to automate the deployment of services, onboard and set up new developer environments.
  • Implemented CI/CD using CodeBuild, Jenkins, Git, Docker, Ansible, and Bash.
  • Set up monitoring and alerting on critical services and integrated alerts with CloudWatch, alert logic, Opsgenie, and Slack.
  • Worked on configuration and administration of Elastic Load Balancers, Route 53, network, and autoscaling for high availability.
  • Configured AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) groups and permissions based on security best practices.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment, Amazon EKS, Nomad, CI/CD Pipelines, Bash, Kubernetes, Vault, Vagrant, Ansible, SaltStack, Datadog, PagerDuty, Amazon RDS, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), REST APIs, Serverless Architecture, REST, Amazon CloudWatch, Linux Server Administration, Resource Management, Unix, Cloud Services

DevOps Engineer

2015 - 2017
Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT Lab)
  • Worked on infrastructure development on AWS using various services like EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, IAM, and VPC.
  • Utilized CloudWatch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB Services, and EBS volumes.
  • Configured Jenkins to automate the build deployments based on the changes captured in Version Control.
  • Gained knowledge in Ansible playbook, YAML for maintaining roles, inventory files, and groups variables.
  • Configured various performance metrics using AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
  • Used Git for branching, tagging, and maintenance of version control and source code management.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, Ansible, Bash, Python, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, Linux Server Administration, Resource Management, Unix, Cloud Services

Solutions Architect

2011 - 2014
Intertel
  • Automated and managed AWS infrastructure and deployment processes, including production, testing, and development environments.
  • Worked on automation continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline processes for multiple projects using GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, and Docker.
  • Configured and managed Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for fault tolerance and to avoid single point of failure of applications, providing high availability.
  • Implemented identity and access management solutions for infrastructure and applications, to ensure that appropriate access controls are in place and applied effectively and continuously.
  • Managed and automated all aspects of our AWS infrastructure, including compute, storage, network, permissions, and cost using shell scripts and configuration management tools like Ansible.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, Bash, Ansible, Docker, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, Linux Server Administration, Resource Management, Unix, Cloud Services

Terraform Architecture for Nike

The project involved the Terraform infrastructure for Nike's core ERP systems across all business units worldwide. I took ownership and re-architected the Terraform infrastructure automation, which resulted in reducing the deployment of parallel systems from 2-3 days to less than an hour. This Terraform architecture deploys and manages thousands of virtual machines in AWS and Azure.

Container Migration from Heroku to AWS ECS

http://www.notarize.com
I architected and built a multi-environment AWS ECS cluster using Terraform and migrated all microservice containers from Heroku to AWS ECS. Furthermore, I configured the application logging using Telegraf, AWS CloudWatch, and Datadog and the container logging in sumo logic.

Cloud Infrastructure and Pipeline for an Email Analytics Company

http://www.sparkpost.com
A web-based application for an email analytics company. I designed and built the cloud network infrastructure, the global database cluster, replication across multiple regions, and the CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and ECS clusters.

Tools

Git, Terraform, GitHub, Amazon CloudWatch, Ansible, Jenkins, Amazon EKS, CircleCI, Sumo Logic, Telegraf, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Puppet, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Vault, Vagrant, SaltStack, AWS CloudFormation, Travis CI, AWS IAM, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

Paradigms

Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Serverless Architecture, Microservices, REST

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Unix, Docker, New Relic, Kubernetes, Azure, Heroku, PagerDuty, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Other

Networking, Cloud, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Resource Management, Cloud Services, Cisco, Linux Server Administration, CI/CD Pipelines, Containers, Nomad, Amazon RDS, IBM Cloud, GitHub Actions, Consul

Languages

A+, HTML, Python, Bash, Java, Go

Industry Expertise

Network Security

Libraries/APIs

REST APIs

Storage

Datadog, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, NoSQL, Amazon Aurora

2014 - 2016

Master's Degree in Telecommunications and Networking

Stratford University - Falls Church, VA

2007 - 2011

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

Babcock University - Nigeria

MAY 2021 - PRESENT

Certified Jenkins Engineer

Jenkins Project

APRIL 2021 - APRIL 2023

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Hashicorp

MARCH 2021 - MARCH 2024

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

Amazon Web Services

JANUARY 2021 - JANUARY 2024

AWS Certified Developer

Amazon Web Services

JUNE 2020 - JUNE 2023

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS

NOVEMBER 2015 - MAY 2022

Cisco Certified Network Associate (Security)

Cisco

DECEMBER 2012 - MAY 2022

Cisco Certified Network Associate

Cisco