Hello! I am Faizudeen Kajogbola. A tech enthusiast who is passionate about leveraging software engineering (and the cloud) to solve real world problems and automating the way they're solved. Here, you can find information about my experience, certifications, education, projects, and more!

Work Experience

Senior Platform Engineer

Bitly EU GmbH, Berlin

10.2023 - present

Platform Engineering

  • Support engineers with infrastructure provisioning and maintenance
  • Participate actively in application maintenance and incident resolution
  • Develop “glue” services to tie together independent services and functionailties
  • Enhance development experience & velocity by supporting and establishing functional and efficient CI pipelines
  • Secure, monitor, and optimize high traffic platform spanning over multiple services and serving thousands of requests per minute
Golang
Terraform
AWS
MySQL
Bash
GitHub Actions
Linux
AWS ECS
SDLC

Software Developer / DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Codecreek Limited

09.2019 - present

Fullstack web development and deployment

  • Conceptualization, design, and implementation of software solutions
  • RESTful API development using the Laravel PHP framework
  • Full stack development with Python and JavaScript
  • Development of Java desktop application for business management using the JavaFX GUI library
  • Application deployment and infrastructure management on DigitalOcean cloud
Node.js
Github Actions
Laravel
Azure
Python
JavaScript

Cloud Systems Developer

Cloudreach GmbH (an Eviden company), Munich

09.2022 - 09.2023

Infrastructure + DevOps Engineering

  • Automated provisioning and management of cloud resources and infrastructure on AWS and Azure Cloud
  • Curated AWS landing zone templates to enforce ogranization-wide usage policies
  • Configured muti-account security policies including identity and access management and automated thread detection and mitigation
  • Designed cross-region, multi-account VPC networks
  • Developed cloud-native software
  • Supported junior associates with task delivery and helped them prepare for certification exams
Python
Azure
AWS
PHP
Bash
Linux
AWS EKS
Terraform

Web Developer

Smart Mobile Factory GmbH, Berlin

03.2021 - 04.2022

Backend web development + DevOps

  • Multi-service chat application comprising of a PHP backend based on Laravel framework, a Synapse matrix server, a Keycloak IAM server, and backed by a PostgreSQL database
  • Golang web application based on QOR admin and Cobra backed by a PostgreSQL database
  • Java backend service based on Spring framework and backed by a MySQL database
  • Database migrations for schema definitions and updates
  • Containerized applications by creating Dockerfiles and Kubernetes configurations
  • Provisioned Kubernetes cluster on AWS EKS using Terraform IaC and Ansible for configuration management
  • Built, tested, and released applications on AWS Cloud via CI/CD operations with Jenkins
  • Developed web applications in Golang, PHP, Java, and Python
  • Developed GraphQL and REST API Endpoints
Golang
MySQL
Docker
PHP
Ansible
GraphQL
Kubernetes
Java
Symfony
AWS EKS
PostgreSQL
Terraform

Web Application Developer

SuccessTrend Marketing, Nigeria

08.2018 - 11.2018

Hosting, Design, Implementation, and Management of Websites.

  • Managed Wordpress-based websites
  • Handled web hosting
Wordpress
PHP
HTML/CSS

Certifications

07.2024 - 04.2027
02.2024 - 02.2027
02.2023 - 03.2026
10.2022 - 07.2025

Education

Master of Science

TU Kaiserslautern

04.2019 - 09.2022

Automation and Control- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Bachelor of Engineering

    University of Ilorin

    08.2012 - 09.2017

    Control Engineering- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

      Projects

      Code Demos

      A catalog of demonstrational applications for learning & illustrational purposes.

      Docker
      Golang
      OpenAPI 3.0
      React

      Cloud Learnings

      A catalog of AWS and Azure Cloud architecture implementations.

      AWS
      Azure
      Golang
      Terraform
      Python
      Bash
      Websocket

      IP Location Changer

      Reliable IP location changer using OpenVPN and WhatIsMyIP.

      Python
      Linux

      Servicing Application on AWS

      Skeleton code for a servicing application that is deployed on AWS.

      Golang
      Bash
      AWS
      Next.js

      Go Password Generator

      REST API (and CLI tool) to generate passwords written in Go.

      Golang
      Kubernetes

      EC2 Instance Scheduler

      A unique combination of Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.

      AWS
      Terraform
      CloudFormation

      Node.js Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline Boilerplate

      Boilerplate code for Node.js CI/CD using Jenkins, implemented as Docker containers and orchestrated using Docker Compose.

      Docker
      CI/CD
      Jenkins
      Node.js
      Docker Compose

      Design, Implementation, and Control of a Virtual Factory using Soft PLC

      Model, design, validate, and verify logic control systems to fulfil specified control requirements. Design and implementation of indeustrial processes using Factory IO.

      Python
      Heroku
      TDD

      SMV and ST Generator

      Automatically generates NuSMV language for model checking and IEC 61131 Structured Text (ST) PLC code from JSON representation of Signal Interpreted Petri Nets (SIPN).

      Python
      Heroku
      TDD