Dara Shoyinka — DevOps & Platform Engineer

// 01 — about

Who I Am

I'm Dara Shoyinka, a DevOps & Platform Engineer with 6 years of experience based in New Jersey. I build and maintain the infrastructure, pipelines, and platforms that engineering teams rely on to ship software fast and reliably.

My work sits at the intersection of infrastructure automation, container orchestration, and developer experience — designing systems that scale, self-heal, and get out of developers' way.

I hold a B.Sc. in Physiology and was formerly a Certified Medical Coder before pivoting fully into tech. I completed my software engineering foundation at Flatiron School, which gave me the coding instincts that now make me a stronger infrastructure engineer.

New Jersey, USA Open to Remote GitHub: Dara16

// 02 — skills

What I Do

⚙️

CI/CD Pipelines

Design and maintain automated build, test, and deploy pipelines that reduce release cycle times and eliminate manual toil.

🐳

Containerization

Containerize applications with Docker and orchestrate workloads at scale using Kubernetes across dev, staging, and production.

🏗️

Infrastructure as Code

Provision and manage cloud infrastructure declaratively with Terraform — versioned, repeatable, and peer-reviewable like application code.

🔭

Observability

Instrument systems for visibility using metrics, logs, and traces. Build dashboards and alerting that surface the right signal at the right time.

🔐

Platform Security

Implement secrets management, RBAC, network policies, and supply chain security practices across the platform layer.

🧩

Developer Experience

Build internal platforms and tooling that reduce cognitive load for engineering teams — from local dev environments to production deploy workflows.

// 03 — tools & technologies

My Stack

🐳

Docker

☸️

Kubernetes

🏗️

Terraform

⚡

CI/CD

🐙

GitHub Actions

🔧

Jenkins

☁️

AWS

🐧

Linux

📜

Bash

🐍

Python

📦

Helm

🔍

Prometheus

📊

Grafana

🗃️

Git

🌐

Nginx

🔑

Vault

dara@platform-eng ~

dara@platform:~$ kubectl get nodes

NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION

prod-node-01 Ready control-plane 42d v1.28.0

prod-node-02 Ready worker 42d v1.28.0

prod-node-03 Ready worker 42d v1.28.0

dara@platform:~$ terraform plan

Plan: 3 to add, 1 to change, 0 to destroy.

dara@platform:~$ docker ps --format "table {{.Names}}\t{{.Status}}"

NAMES STATUS

api-gateway Up 3 days

auth-service Up 3 days

redis-cache Up 3 days

dara@platform:~$ ▋

// 04 — what i work with

How I Work

// container orchestration

Kubernetes

Designing, deploying, and managing production Kubernetes clusters. From workload scheduling and auto-scaling to RBAC, network policies, ingress controllers, and multi-namespace environments.

K8s Helm kubectl RBAC Ingress

// continuous delivery

CI/CD Pipelines

Building end-to-end automated pipelines that take code from commit to production — lint, test, build, containerize, push, deploy. Rollback strategies and environment promotion built in.

Jenkins GitHub Actions Docker ECR ECS

// infrastructure as code

Terraform

Provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure declaratively. VPCs, IAM roles and policies, compute, storage, DNS, and CDN — versioned, peer-reviewed, and repeatable across environments.

Terraform AWS VPC IAM CloudFormation

// observability

Monitoring & Alerting

Instrumenting systems for full observability — metrics, logs, and traces. Building dashboards that surface the right signal and alerting that pages on what matters, not noise.

Prometheus Grafana ELK CloudWatch

// security

Platform Security

Implementing least-privilege IAM frameworks, secrets management, container image scanning, vulnerability remediation, and network segmentation across the platform layer.

IAM Vault VPC SSL/TLS Scanning

// automation

Scripting & Automation

Eliminating toil through automation — from Bash scripts and Python tooling to Ansible playbooks for configuration management across fleets of servers and environments.

Python Bash Ansible Linux Node.js