Akin Olasupo
SRE | DevOps | Cloud | Architecture
Salary / Daily rate
High Wycombe, UK
Mobility: London, Paris, ...
Freelance
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
SRE/DevOps Lead with 10+ years architecting scalable cloud platforms for enterprise organizations including HMRC, Ping Identity, and The AA. Expert in Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD optimization, with proven success building resilient SaaS infrastructures and transforming teams to DevOps operating models. I deliver cloud-native solutions that drive operational excellence and accelerate your business growth.
Work experience
AWS DevOps Lead
The AA
Sep 2024 - Present
2 years 2 months
Platform Engineering Lead
StacksquadFreelance
Aug 2021 - Present
5 years 3 months
At StackSquad, we partner with organizations to design and develop bespoke developer platforms tailored to their unique needs. We specialize in building and scaling cross-functional DevOps and SRE teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, and guiding organizations in their transformation from siloed setups to a DevOps operating model. My responsibilities includes architecting solutions that align with modern app principles, ensuring applications are scalable, maintainable, and cloud-ready. I have helped organizations implement modern DevOps practices, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and adopt tools and methodologies that enhanced productivity and reliability. Whether it's enabling seamless developer experiences, driving operational excellence, or reshaping infrastructure to meet future demands, StackSquad is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams and accelerate business success.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Ping Identity
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
1 year 2 months
I led projects with a cloud-first mindset, designing infrastructure solutions that were resilient, scalable, and future-focused. My responsibilities included automation, capacity analysis and planning, traffic routing, and implementing security policies to support Ping's market-leading Single Sign-On SaaS applications.
Senior AWS/Kubernetes Platform Engineer
The AA
May 2022 - May 2023
1 year 1 month
Hoyland, Barnsley S74, UK
Leading the effort to develop and scale authentication platform on Kubernetes.
HM Revenue & Customs
Jan 2018 - May 2022
4 years 5 months
Principal Platform Lead
Jul 2019 - May 2022
2 years 11 months
Responsible for the setting technical direction and scaling the team to build decoupled, highly configurable, cloud native platform for multiple integration projects. #aws #k8s #k8soperators #k8scanary
DevOps Technical Lead
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
1 year 2 months
Southend-on-Sea, UK
I led the delivery of platform services hosted in AWS and on-premise for HMRC CDS revamp.
Senior Devops Engineer
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
7 months
Southend-on-Sea, UK
I designed and implemented several infrastructure and deployment improvements to meet the first release requirements of HMRC CDS integration platform.
Senior Automation Engineer
Barclays
Apr 2017 - Jan 2018
10 months
Hoyland, Barnsley S74, UK
Building event-driven automations for infrastructure and application lifecycle deployment and management.
Senior Cloud Systems/Site Reliability Engineer
Acquia
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
9 months
Reading, UK
Worked with teams to implement highly-available and scalable architectures for core and third-party components of Acquia’s PaaS/SaaS products
Senior Systems Administrator
Marsh & McLennan Companies
Dec 2013 - Jul 2016
2 years 8 months
London, UK
Systems Engineer in charge of the cloud infrastructure for EMEA region.
Senior Datacenter Operations Engineer
Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company
Jan 2013 - Dec 2013
1 year
Hayes, UK
Tasked with ensuring maximum system availability, ensuring adequate resolution of client issues and building clients' solutions.
Infrastructure Support Engineer
Netman Technologies Limited
Sep 2009 - Oct 2011
2 years 2 months
8600 Lagos, Portugal
Provide day-to-day build, maintenance and support for general IT infrastructure both for in-house and external clients.
Education
University of Greenwich
Master's degree, Computer Systems and Network Engineeering
2011 - 2012
2 years
Lagos State University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electronics and Computer Engineering
2001 - 2008
8 years
Licenses & certifications
RHCSA
Issued: Nov 2025
ITIL V3 Foundation
Issued: Nov 2025
CCNA
Issued: Nov 2025
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
Issued: Nov 2025