Summary
Olivier Kouame is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building platform and cloud engineering organisations across enterprise and high-growth product companies. Currently Director, Developer Lifecycle at Deliveroo, he has a track record of creating internal developer platforms, developer experience teams and embedded platform engineering models that shift teams to self-service and production ownership. He’s led cross-cloud platform initiatives at GSK and Salesforce, delivering automation, observability and secure governance for Azure, GCP and on-prem environments. Olivier pairs hands-on technical fluency (infrastructure as code, container orchestration and DevOps tooling) with people-focused leadership, scaling multidisciplinary teams in complex regulated settings. Notably, he combines an academic background in organisational behaviour with deep platform experience—bringing both change management and engineering rigor to platform transformation. Based in London, he thrives on mentoring engineering leaders while driving measurable developer productivity improvements.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bac S, Physics, Bac S, Physics at Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle
Master's degree, Organizational Behavior Studies, Master's degree, Organizational Behavior Studies at Birkbeck, University of London
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at McGill University