Abdulbasit Kabir
Head, Platform Engineering
Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolAbdulbasit Kabir is a Head of Platform Engineering with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling resilient, cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures across startups and large enterprises. He blends deep DevOps expertise—CI/CD automation, Kubernetes platform engineering, and observability pipelines—with strategic leadership that turned delivery processes into self-service platforms at Interswitch. His progression from individual contributor to team lead and now head of platform demonstrates a track record of improving reliability for high-availability applications serving thousands of users. Known for driving developer workflow standardization and internal tooling, he pairs practical engineering with process change to accelerate teams. Based in Nigeria, he brings regional insight into building robust systems in emerging markets. An organizer of DevOpsNG, he is active in the local community, helping bridge industry best practices with real-world operational constraints.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Ahmadu Bello University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (72)
jenkins-api-plugin10
jenkins-plugin10
remoting10
jenkins10
javascript9
redux-thunk9
docker9
react9
spinnaker9
nodejs9
bakery8
velocity8
css8
asciidoctor8
continuous-deployment8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
abdulbasitkay/FoodieRater
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
abdulbasitkay/dbunit_extractor
May 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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