Dipo Oginni
Building platforms that scale companies, not just infrastructure
Senior Platform Engineer with 7+ years building internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, and cost-optimized cloud systems. I reduce developer friction, cut operational costs, and build resilient systems that handle millions of users.
What I Do
I build internal developer platforms that let engineering teams move fast without breaking things. Instead of having developers spend time wrestling with Kubernetes YAML or fighting with infrastructure, I create self-service tools where they push code and everything else happens automatically.
My focus is platform engineering—building the foundation that makes everyone else more productive. I've reduced cloud costs by 30% through FinOps practices, cut incident response time by 70% with proper observability, and automated away thousands of hours of manual work. I've managed infrastructure serving millions of users across healthcare, finance, and SaaS products.
Beyond infrastructure, I mentor engineers, set technical direction for platform teams, and translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. I work primarily with AWS and Azure, specialize in Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps, and handle compliance for SOC2, HIPAA, and PCI.
Core Expertise
Platform Engineering & IDPs
Build internal developer platforms with self-service infrastructure provisioning, automated deployments, and golden paths. Reduce cognitive load by abstracting Kubernetes complexity behind simple interfaces. Enable teams to ship faster without needing deep infrastructure knowledge.
FinOps & Cost Optimization
Cut cloud spending by 30%+ through rightsizing, commitment management, and waste reduction. Implement showback/chargeback systems, optimize Kubernetes resource allocation, and build cost-aware CI/CD pipelines. Saved over $1M in cloud costs.
Observability Engineering
Build observability platforms with distributed tracing, service mesh monitoring, and real-time SLO tracking. Move beyond basic monitoring to understand system behavior—logs, metrics, and traces correlated for root cause analysis in minutes, not hours.
Kubernetes at Scale
Multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms with GitOps, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), and custom operators. Handle multi-tenancy, policy enforcement, and cluster federation. Zero-downtime upgrades across hundreds of services.
Chaos Engineering & SRE
Implement chaos experiments to prove system resilience. Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and build self-healing systems. Reduced MTTR by 70% through automated incident response and blameless postmortems.
Infrastructure Automation
Everything as code—Terraform for infrastructure, Ansible for config, GitOps for deployments. Automated 2,000+ servers with zero-touch provisioning. Build CI/CD pipelines that detect drift and self-remediate.
Featured Projects
Enterprise Observability Platform
Platform EngineeringLed the design and implementation of a unified observability platform serving 15+ SaaS products and 100+ engineers. Built distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, real-time SLO tracking, and automated incident response that correlates logs, metrics, and traces across multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.
Self-Service Infrastructure Platform
Architected and led implementation of a self-service infrastructure platform managing 2,000+ servers across multiple data centers. Eliminated manual provisioning with zero-touch automation, Infrastructure-as-Code workflows, and policy-as-code enforcement for SOC2/HIPAA compliance.
Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Platform
Led platform team building a production-ready Kubernetes IDP serving millions of users. Implemented GitOps, service mesh, progressive delivery, and multi-cluster federation. Developers deploy via self-service portal without knowing Kubernetes internals—reduced deployment time from days to minutes.
Let's Connect
Open to senior/staff platform engineering and SRE roles where I can build teams, set technical direction, and solve complex infrastructure challenges at scale. Also available for technical advisory and consulting.