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O'Brien Alaribe

Blockchain DevOps Lead | Substrate | #blockchain #solidity #substrate #polkadot #rust #web3 #smartcontract #defi #nft #dao

London, England

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2022 - 2024

  • Senior DevOps Engineer- Blockchain RPC Node

    2022 - 2024

2023 - 2023

  • 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

2021 - 2022

  • 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

2020 - 2021

  • 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

2019 - 2020

  • Google Cloud Platform Authorised Trainer

    2019 - 2020

    Understanding Google Cloud Platform architecture on a deep level Training Google Engineers on Cloud tech & certifications

2020 - 2020

  • 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

2015 - 2016

  • Founder

    2015 - 2016