Afolabi Kayode
Lead Linux Unix Engineer at MTN BENIN
Cotonou, Littoral, Nigeria
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Top SchoolAfolabi Kayode is a Lead Linux/Unix Engineer with over 10 years of hands-on experience designing, operating and modernizing large-scale Linux and cloud infrastructures across telecommunications, finance and manufacturing. He combines deep Linux/Unix administration, virtualization and Oracle DBA background with practical DevOps skills—Ansible, Jenkins, Docker and AWS—to automate CI/CD and infrastructure at scale. At MTN he led a team delivering 99.9% uptime across 700+ systems, accelerated incident response by 70% through monitoring improvements, and modernized VM platforms with Dell EMC solutions to boost scalability. Comfortable moving between scripting, playbooks and build tooling (Maven/NPM/Ant), he bridges traditional enterprise operations and cloud-native practices while owning ITSM and CMDB maturity efforts. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has repeatedly reduced recurring incidents and deployment times through root-cause analysis and automation, and holds a Cloud DevOps Nanodegree alongside formal Computer Science qualifications.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
WASSCE, Science, WASSCE, Science at Omole Grammar SchoolNanodegree, Cloud DevOps Engineer, Nanodegree, Cloud DevOps Engineer at UdacityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 2.1, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 2.1 at Southwestern UniversityHigher National Diploma, Computer Science, Upper Credit, Higher National Diploma, Computer Science, Upper Credit at Federal Polytechnic,Offa
English, Yoruba
Github Skills (13)
refresh2
sap-cap2
logging2
gatling2
cloud-foundry2
spring2
jenkins2
monitoring1
kubernetes1
devops1
continuous-integration1
docker1
cicd1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
afkgit/HelloWorld
Feb 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
afkgit/alx-low_level_programming
Sep 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:74 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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