Alex Idowu
Founder & CTO (Techstars 23) at PipeOps
Lagos, Lagos State, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Idowu is a founder and CTO with a decade-plus background in software engineering and DevOps, currently leading PipeOps (Techstars ’23) to simplify cloud deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure. He blends hands-on cloud infrastructure and security expertise with product leadership, having built and scaled engineering teams across fintech and SaaS startups in Africa and the UK. Alex is passionate about cloud governance, automation and secure CI/CD, and holds multiple Google Developer certifications alongside a degree in mathematics and computer science. Known for turning legacy stacks into modern, maintainable platforms, he often acts as the de facto DevOps engineer for teams that lack dedicated ops resources. Based in Lagos, his career combines developer-first craftsmanship with strategic technical vision that accelerates product delivery.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of the People
English, French
Stackoverflow
99reputation
14kreached
10answers
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Github Skills (54)
filesystem10
sdk10
pipe10
s3-bucket10
docker-image9
docker9
aws9
twilio9
cli9
namespaces9
rust8
operator8
tenancy8
google-cloud-storage8
kubernetes-operator8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pipeops-dev/pipeops-docs
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 25 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year
9trocode/node_triple_des
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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