Ikenna Chifo

Engineer & Speaker

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Cloud and software engineer with 10+ years architecting and maintaining distributed infrastructure at scale.

Experience

Spotify / Senior Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Aug 2022 — Present

Toronto, ON

Kubernetes autoscaler optimizations saving $600K+/month. Operating 40+ GKE clusters (1.2M+ cores, 3000+ services). Governance frameworks with Kyverno and OPA. Zero-downtime dual-stack migration for 2000+ services.

Amazon Web Services / Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Jun 2020 — Jul 2022

Toronto, ON

Architecture modernization for 20+ enterprise clients using Terraform, CDK, and CI/CD. Observability with Prometheus and Grafana reducing MTTR by 60%. Cost optimization achieving $165K+ annual savings.

Total E&P / Software Engineer

Apr 2017 — May 2020

Victoria Island

Migrated 11 finance applications from on-prem to AWS and Azure. Zero-downtime PostgreSQL migrations (200GB+). Built full-stack portal managing $10M+ in real estate transactions.

Skills

Infrastructure / Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, Ansible, GitOps
Cloud / AWS, GCP, Azure
Languages / Go, Python, JavaScript, Bash, SQL
Observability / Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Fluentbit
Practices / SRE, Distributed Systems, Cloud Security, Performance Tuning

Certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • AWS Solutions Architect — Professional
  • AWS Certified Security — Specialty
  • GCP Professional Cloud Architect
  • ITIL 4 Foundation

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