PLATFORM ENGINEER  /  SRE  /  GDE CLOUD

TIMOTHY OLALEKE

Simplifying Cloud Infrastructure

Kigali, Rwanda
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CHAPTER 01

The Engineer

I build cutting-edge cloud infrastructure that makes products secure, reliable, and highly available. From CI/CD pipelines to Kubernetes clusters, I design the systems that let engineering teams ship fast and sleep well.

As a Google Developer Expert for Cloud, I share what I learn through writing, open source, and speaking at communities across Africa and beyond. I founded HostSpaceCloud to make cloud hosting simple, scalable, and affordable for African businesses.

0 + YEARS BUILDING
0 + GITHUB REPOS
0 + YEARS AS GDE
0 CERTIFICATIONS

CHAPTER 02

The Journey

From a university in Kano to cloud infrastructure across three continents.

2026 — PRESENT

Platform Engineer

O Foundation (o.xyz)

Building the world's first free Super AI. DevOps and platform engineering for the Stealth ADE product.

2024 — PRESENT

Co-Founder & DevOps Consultant

HostSpace Cloud Solutions

Cloud PaaS for African businesses. Kubernetes Engine, Container Services, Managed Databases. Making cloud simple and affordable.

2023 — 2024

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Diagrid

Managed cloud infrastructure for Dapr-based distributed systems. Observability, incident response, and platform reliability.

2022 — 2025

DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Energy Web Foundation & TLScontact

Contract roles building cloud infrastructure for energy decarbonization and visa processing platforms.

2021 — 2023

Site Reliability Engineer

Fireflies.ai

Infrastructure for AI-powered meeting assistant. Scaled systems handling millions of meeting transcriptions.

2020 — 2021

DevOps Engineer

Nomba (Kudi)

Infrastructure for one of Nigeria's leading fintech platforms. Payment processing, high availability, zero-downtime deployments.

2019 — 2020

Cloud & Software Engineer

Mercurie

Full-stack cloud engineering for logistics platform. First deep dive into cloud-native architecture.

2019

Google Summer of Code Intern

Ushahidi

Open source crisis-mapping platform. Where the open source journey truly began.

2017

Founded HostSpaceNG

The Beginning

Started building cloud solutions for African businesses while still at Bayero University, Kano. DSC Lead, Django Girls organizer, community builder.

CHAPTER 03

The Craft

Tools and technologies shaped by years of building in production.

LANGUAGES

Go Python Rust TypeScript Bash

INFRASTRUCTURE

Kubernetes Docker Terraform Helm Ansible ArgoCD GitOps

CLOUD PLATFORMS

Google Cloud AWS Azure

OBSERVABILITY

Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry

FRAMEWORKS

FastAPI Django React Next.js Vue.js

CERTIFICATIONS

CKA CKAD GCP Pro Cloud Architect Google Developer Expert

CHAPTER 04

The Builder

From cloud platforms to AI agents, always building.

CHAPTER 05

The Voice

Writing, speaking, and building communities.

SPEAKING & COMMUNITY

MAR 2026 Building Personalized AI Agents with Gemini, ADK, and MCP Build With AI Kigali / GDG Kigali
2019 Cloud & DevOps Talks DevFest Kano, Kaduna, Abuja
2018 Python & Open Source Workshops PyCon Nigeria, DevFest NorthWest, Django Girls Kano
ONGOING Google Developer Expert for Cloud Since December 2019 — community advocacy, content creation
2020 BellaNaija MCM Feature Recognized for contributions to tech community
2018 — 2019 Developer Student Club Lead Bayero University, Kano

CHAPTER 06

Let's Build
Something.

Always open to interesting conversations about cloud, infrastructure, and what's next.