O'brien Alaribe
Blockchain DevOps Lead | Substrate | #blockchain #solidity #substrate #polkadot #rust #web3 #smartcontract #defi #nft #dao
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer- Blockchain RPC Node
2022 - 2024
Polkadot Blockchain Academy -Rust
2023 - 2023
Programming Merkle Tree Proofs in Rust Engineering a Quadratic Voting protocol using FRAME Benchmarking Runtime FRAME pallets Building FRAME and FRAMEless pallets in Substrate XCM MultiLocations and teleporting assets Experience with Smart Contracts in Ink
Lead DevOps Engineer -Blockchain/Rust/Substrate (AWS)
2021 - 2022
Experience programming in Rust Experience working with Substrate Blockchains Experience with Zombienet, & Forkless Runtime Upgrades Networking experience with RPC, Websockets, DNS, VPN, TCP/IP, Libp2p Building & Maintaining Private Testnet Experience with Substrate Telemetry & Monitoring
Senior Devops Architect [GCP]
2020 - 2021
Architecting and implementing secure enterprise solutions for global Banking & Financial Services like HSBC, Deutsche Bank, London Stock Exchange etc Managing and deploying Kubernetes at scale with Istio as a Service Mesh Some experience with Anthos Authoring secure Terraform modules that meet CIS Benchmarks Client engagement skills and stakeholder management
Google Cloud Platform Authorised Trainer
2019 - 2020
Understanding Google Cloud Platform architecture on a deep level Training Google Engineers on Cloud tech & certifications
ROI offers specialized management and technology training programs for large businesses and governmental organizations.
Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP)
2020 - 2020
Building CI/CD pipelines and managing Kubernetes clusters Templating and Patching k8s manifests with Helm & Kustomize Semantic Versioning of microservices Managing On-call Incidents
Senior Pre-Sales Engineer (GCP)
2019 - 2020
• Certified: Professional Google Cloud Architect • Onboarding new customers unto GCP and leading a project from pre-sales to production • Migrating legacy data-centre applications to the Cloud • Securing & Solutionizing Robust Enterprise Services • Running technical workshops at customer site to educate engineering teams on the DevOps culture and how to achieve this on GCP • Upskilling internal staff members by leading “Lunch and Learn” sessions, and offering one-on-one support as necessary • Supporting engineering/project teams to automate legacy solutions and reduce tech debt • IaC with Terraform & Container Orchestration with Kubernetes
DevOps Engineer (AWS)
2018 - 2019
CI/CD using Jenkins, Vault & Artifactory Container Orchestration with Kubernetes Load balancing solutions using Nginx, HAProxy and F5 Implementing Security & Tech Compliance when working with PII/PCI data Infrastructure planning and developing highly available services Using Chef/Packer to configure AMI builds for AWS Deploying a Prometheus monitoring stack into ECS Using Terraform to deploy infrastructure as code Configuring Grafana dashboards Working with Elastic Stack (ELK) Log aggregation using API Gateway & Kinesis streams
Automation Engineer (AWS)
2017 - 2018
Grew a team of two to six after successfully completing MVP for the business Building automation services that communicate with Salesforce CI/CD using Jenkins, Hashicorp Vault and Artifactory Using Atlassian products like Jira, Stash & Confluence Log aggregation using ELK stack
Cloud Engineer (AWS)
2016 - 2017
Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure & Security Deploying fault tolerant systems Managing infrastructure with Terraform Distributed storage using EFS Managing a distributed infrastructure on AWS
Founder
2015 - 2016