Aanuoluwapo (Aanu) Akinyera

Brampton ON, L6X 5R6, Canada · (647) 425-8272 · aanuoluwapoakinyera@gmail.com

I am a Lead DevOps Engineer with almost 14 years of experience providing innovative IT solutions for various industries and sectors. I have over 5 years of experience in creating systems to support automation and IT infrastructure across projects, using Kubernetes, AWS Cloud Infrastructure, Azure, GCP and Infrastructure as a Code (Terraform). I have also successfully implemented IT service delivery strategies to ensure successful software delivery across various environments and seamless collaboration with the Product Management team.

I am an Alumni of Harvard Business School and University of Liverpool. I am also a Certified Project Manager, a Professional Scrum Master, and an IT Service Manager, with the skills and credentials to plan, execute, and deliver complex and agile projects, while ensuring high standards of quality, performance, and customer satisfaction. I have successfully led and contributed to multiple projects that involved tracking human mobility, developing biometric capture software, and deploying technology for migrants. I am passionate about using my technical and managerial expertise to solve real-world problems and create positive social impact.

Experience

DevOps Lead

AAT Technologies

Collaborated with developers to establish end-to-end automation workflows using CI/CD pipelines. Implemented secure storage of environment variables and automated systems. Maintained and expanded cloud infrastructure and provided team leadership and mentorship.

  • ▶ Strategic Transformation: Transitioned monolithic, waterfall project management style to Agile methodology and microservices architecture. Tripled project capacity, improved stakeholder satisfaction, and increased referrals by 70%.
  • ▶ Infrastructure Management: Utilized Terraform and Ansible for deploying dockerized containers from Amazon ECR to Amazon Kubernetes (EKS) with serverless resources, ensuring scalability and robustness of applications.
  • ▶ Uptime Achievement: Achieved 99.9% uptime in deployed projects through robust monitoring mechanisms, ensuring reliable service delivery.
Feb 2019 - Present

Agile Project Manager

IOM - The United Nations Migration Agency

Planned and coordinated project activities to ensure alignment, managing budgets, and timely technology deployment. Delegated to balance team workload and maintain team cohesion. Facilitated Scrum framework and supervised containerization of applications. Codebase management using GitHub and database administration.

  • ▶ Leadership & Budget Management: Guided team of 400 members with a $2M budget to successfully deploy a technology tracking human mobility nationwide.
  • ▶ Application Development: Oversaw development of robust application managing over 1M events and entries in a dynamic SQL database, achieving millisecond retrieval times.
  • ▶ Database Management: Designed, administered, and managed MSSQL database, ensuring optimal performance, data integrity, and security throughout the software development lifecycle.
October 2017 - April 2020

Senior Software Developer

IOM - The United Nations Migration Agency

Developed and deployed complex applications. Mentored junior developers, database administrators, and data analysts, collaborated with project managers, and led ad-hoc requests for database and program development.

  • ▶ Project Management: Led end-to-end project activities for technology tracking over 2M migrants, including planning, software development, data gathering, geo coordinates mapping, and data analysis using R and Python.
  • ▶ Biometric Data Management: Contributed to the development of the organization's Biometric capture software, managing data for over 1M affected populations in the region.
  • ▶ Data Analysis: Designed Data models, produced analytics from database and created infographics for stakeholders in an easy-to-interpret manner.
November 2014 - October 2017

Software and Platform Engineer

NASENI

Led the digitization initiative within the organization by developing in-house standalone applications (e-payroll, e-procurement, HR management, Staff cooperative), automating operational processes. Also supported in deploying and configuring the organization's servers (Apache, Nginx, Email servers, SSH, LDAP). Received a letter of commendation from the organization for leading the drive for digitization. • • • Designed and managed MySQL databases, ensuring efficient performance and integrity, utilizing tools like phpMyAdmin. • Conducted training sessions for colleagues in Database Development, Computer Programming, Software Development, Website Design, and Server Administration. •

  • ▶ Led a team of software developers, DB administrators, UI/UX designers, programmers, and server-side engineers to develop web-based applications for various units in the organisation.
  • ▶ Oversaw the design and development of databases and web applications, including the e-procurement and payroll-related applications, utilizing PHP MVC frameworks such as Yii, Symfony, and CakePHP.
  • ▶ Handled server administration tasks for both Windows and Linux environments (Redhat, CentOS, Zentyal, Ubuntu, Debian), ensuring servers were operational and ready for significant data analysis. Ensured high uptime for hosted applications, mail servers, and other IT-related services.
April 2012 - October 2014

Education

Harvard Business School

Certificate
Data Privacy and Technology

Essential Modules: Legality of Privacy, AI and Data, Social Media and Data

October 2023 - November 2023

University of Liverpool

Master of Science - Information Systems Management

Grade: Pass with Distinction

September 2018 - June 2021

University of Ado-Ekiti

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Graduated top 10% in class

September 2018 - June 2021

Skills

Programming Languages, DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Tools
Workflow
  • Mobile-First, Responsive Design
  • Cross Browser Testing & Debugging
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Agile Development & Scrum

Interests

Outside my professional life, I spend my free time building capacity of my community so I can transfer knowledge and can develop out more professionals in the cloud infrastructure space. I also like to mentor teenagers and young adults in order to encourage to become the best version of themselves in Business, Career, Life etc

I currently volunteer in Winners Chapel International Toronto as a Web Development and Social Media team member where we make efforts to digitize a lot of the processes within the church by building and deploying applications that makes it easy for members to get information. My agile project management experience has also been instrumental in setting achievable increments and minimum viable products that do the job but can always be improved on the fly

Awards & Certifications

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Professional Scrum Master - PSM
  • AWS Solution Architect Certification - AWS CloudQuest
  • IT Service Delivery Certification (ITSM)
  • Kubernetes Certification (TestDome)
  • Ansible Certification (TestDome)