David Ogbonnah | DevOps Engineer | Platform Engineer | Solution Architect

I lead DevOps and Platform Engineering initiatives, shaping architecture and delivering solutions that scale.

My work helps organisations improve delivery confidence, reduce operational drag, and build stronger foundations for change. Hands-on where needed, architectural where it matters.

9+ years DevOps, platform engineering, and delivery leadership with commercial accountability
6 sectors Banking, fintech, telecoms, pharmaceutical, consulting, and public sector
4 certifications AWS and Google Cloud credentials across architecture, cloud, and AI
AWS + GCP Multi-cloud delivery across infrastructure, containers, automation, and observability

Tooling in context

Tools are only useful when they support a delivery model. This is the stack I tend to group around the platform outcomes a team actually needs.

Cloud foundations

Account, network, platform, and runtime foundations that teams can build on without reinventing the baseline.

AWS GCP EKS GKE ECS
Repeatable delivery

Infrastructure and release paths that make changes easier to review, promote, recover, and explain.

Terraform Atlantis Ansible CloudFormation GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins
Operations and enablement

Signals, scripts, and service patterns that help teams own what they ship after deployment.

Kubernetes OTel Docker Python Bash/Shell

Delivery Lifecycle

This is usually the shape of the work: clarify the problem, design the right solution, build the platform foundations, automate the delivery path, and leave teams with something they can run confidently without crossing their fingers first.

Clarify Understand the problem, the delivery constraints, and what good actually needs to look like.
Architect Shape the solution, the platform patterns, and the tradeoffs before teams disappear into implementation.
Platform Build the cloud, IaC, Kubernetes, and operating foundations that make the rest of the work possible.
Automate Put CI/CD, guardrails, observability, and repeatable workflows in place so delivery does not rely on luck.
Deliver Carry the solution through to something usable, supportable, and easier for teams to own over time.

How I Help

The technical work matters, but the commercial point is simpler: improve delivery speed, reduce avoidable platform friction, and leave teams with foundations they can keep using after the project has stopped being everybody's favourite topic in Slack.

Platform Strategy and Architecture

Shape cloud and platform decisions that balance speed, resilience, governance, and the reality of how delivery teams actually work.

Cloud Foundation Delivery

Build reusable AWS and GCP foundations that reduce setup overhead, standardise delivery, and make new environments faster to stand up and easier to operate.

DevOps Improvement and CI/CD Enablement

Improve pipelines, release paths, and delivery controls so teams can ship more confidently without turning every deployment into a group trust exercise.

Platform Standards and Team Enablement

Introduce reusable patterns, operating guardrails, and clearer ways of working that improve developer experience without losing sight of risk, supportability, or cost.

Selected projects

These projects reflect the blend I work in most often: DevOps and Platform Engineering with clear ownership across leadership, architecture, and delivery, so the result is not just well designed but commercially useful, adopted by teams, and actually shipped.

Tier 1 Bank Platform Enablement

Led DevOps and Platform Engineering direction for a complex banking environment through reusable patterns, stronger standards, and a more coherent path from architecture to delivery, reducing duplication across teams and improving release consistency.

Outcome: one shared Terraform and Kubernetes delivery baseline, adopted across multiple delivery teams, with DORA metrics brought into the delivery conversation.

Terraform GKE DevOps Standards & Best Practices DORA Metrics Multiple Teams

Remittance/Fintech Start Up Cloud Foundation and EKS Build-Out

Architected and delivered AWS platform foundations for cloud transition work, balancing solution design, DevOps control points, and a delivery model that helped product teams move faster on a stronger baseline.

Outcome: delivered 4 core AWS building blocks, VPCs, EKS, transit gateways, and peering, to give product teams a usable platform foundation faster.

AWS EKS Jenkins Atlantis 4 Core Foundations

Telecommunications Company Data Platform and Self-Service Tooling

Combined platform architecture and self-service DevOps tooling to reduce operational drag and make infrastructure rollout more scalable, repeatable, and easier for teams to own without constant intervention from the same few people.

Outcome: improved 3 delivery layers at once, data workflows, monitoring, and self-service deployment tooling, so rollout work became more repeatable and less manual.

ECS Python Jenkins 3 Delivery Layers

Sector Reach & Platform Capability

The environments have varied, but the pattern is familiar: take a delivery problem that is part architecture, part platform, part DevOps, and turn it into something teams can actually operate, scale, and justify commercially without needing a sacrificial spreadsheet and a hopeful Slack thread.

Sector Reach

Sector map

Delivery experience across regulated, high-change, consulting-led, and pharmaceutical environments where platform decisions need to balance speed, controls, and a realistic path for teams to work well.

Platform delivery at the centre Lead, architect, and deliver across teams with different constraints but very similar ambitions.
Banking Controls, resilience, release confidence
Fintech Cloud foundations and faster product change
Consulting Reusable patterns and sharp delivery context-switching
Public Sector Auditability, repeatability, and dependable change
Telecoms Data platforms, service integration, operational clarity
Pharmaceutical Controlled change, compliant delivery, and reliable platform foundations
Platform Capability

Platform Capability Matrix

The markers show where I typically operate: helping shape direction, defining the architecture, building the thing properly, and leaving teams with working patterns rather than another well-meaning slide deck.

Cloud AWS and GCP foundations, landing zones, networking, and account structure.
Strategy through operation
Containers Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, and ECS platforms that can survive real delivery traffic.
Platform-first delivery
CI/CD Pipelines, release workflows, guardrails, and enough automation to reduce human improvisation.
Release path ownership
Observability OTel, ELK, DORA metrics, and the visibility needed to spot trouble before it turns theatrical.
Metrics with context
IaC Terraform-led foundations, reusable modules, standards, and deployment patterns.
Reusable by design
Security Secure defaults, access boundaries, and delivery patterns that do not treat controls as an afterthought.
Guardrails that still ship
Ways of Working Standards, inner-source, platform enablement, and coaching that help teams work with less friction.
Enablement with delivery teeth
Capability Focus

Cloud

I typically work across the full cloud lifecycle here: shaping landing zones, defining account structure, and helping delivery teams build on something that is stable rather than improvised.

Strategy through operation GUIDE • ARCHITECT • BUILD • ENABLE

Experience Timeline

The progression moves from core DevOps automation into broader Platform Engineering, solution architecture, and delivery leadership, with each role carrying more responsibility for direction, commercial outcomes, and execution. Fewer shell scripts, more strategic decisions, but still plenty of shell scripts.

2021 to Present

Capco | Senior DevOps Engineer / DevOps Lead

London | Jul 2021 to present

Led DevOps and Platform Engineering direction for delivery teams by strengthening engineering standards, reusable patterns, and the architecture behind change-to-release workflows, helping teams deliver more consistently at scale.

Leadership Architecture Platform Engineering
2020 to 2021

WorldRemit | DevOps Engineer

London | Apr 2020 to Jul 2021

Built core AWS foundations and helped shape a DevOps and Platform Engineering delivery model where platform controls and solution design supported faster, safer change and reduced environment setup drag for product teams.

AWS Foundations EKS DevOps Delivery
2019 to 2020

Accenture | DevOps Engineer / Consultant

London | Jan 2019 to Apr 2020

Worked across consulting engagements with a consistent focus on clarifying architecture, improving platform usability, and creating DevOps delivery approaches that teams could sustain, adopt quickly, and get commercial value from.

Consulting Solution Design Reusable Assets
2017 to 2019

Capgemini | DevOps Engineer

Telford | Apr 2017 to Jan 2019

Built early infrastructure and automation foundations that introduced more structured DevOps thinking, stronger platform habits, and more repeatable delivery practices with less manual overhead.

Automation CI/CD Platform Foundations

Recognition, Certifications & Education

A few concrete credibility markers alongside the hands-on work: industry recognition, current cloud certifications, and the formal computer science foundation behind the delivery experience.

Computing DevOps Excellence Awards 2025 finalist badge for DevOps Rising Star of the Year
Award Recognition

Computing DevOps Excellence Awards 2025 Finalist

Finalist for DevOps Rising Star of the Year, recognising delivery impact, platform leadership, and the kind of DevOps work that leaves teams with a calmer platform and fewer pipeline dramas.

Computing March 2025 London
Qualifications Cloud credentials across Google Cloud and AWS, together with the academic foundation that sits behind the practical delivery work.

Education

BSc (Hons) Computer Science

University of Hertfordshire 2015

Additional certification

AWS Solution Architect Associate

AWS 2017
Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification badge

Google Associate Cloud Engineer

Certification aligned with practical GCP delivery work across infrastructure, services, and operations.

Google Cloud 2024
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner badge

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Foundational AWS certification covering core cloud concepts, platform services, and operating principles.

AWS 2025
AWS Certified AI Practitioner badge

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Foundational AWS AI certification covering practical AI concepts, services, and responsible adoption.

AWS 2025

Useful links and shareable profile

If you are here for the quick version, start with the public profile. If you want the fuller story, LinkedIn is the best place to continue the conversation. I keep the complete CV off the open internet, but the essentials are still easy to review, share, and follow up on.

Public resume

The polished, shareable version: who I am, the platform problems I solve, and the delivery strengths that usually matter before a first conversation.

Full CV by request

The complete version is available for relevant roles and proper conversations. I prefer to share the detailed timeline when there is useful context, not leave it floating around forever.

GitHub

A look at the hands-on side: public repositories, experiments, infrastructure work, and the occasional reminder that tidy engineering usually starts with untidy problems.

LinkedIn

The broader professional picture: role history, sectors, recommendations, and the easiest route to start a sensible conversation without guessing which inbox I am watching.