Ikenna Chifo

Engineer, Tinkerer & Writer

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I build and run the infrastructure that large-scale systems depend on. Distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud platforms — from the scheduler to the wire.

Experience

Spotify / Senior Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Aug 2022 — Present

Toronto, ON

Own the Kubernetes platform that runs thousands of services across a fleet of GKE clusters. Redesigned cluster autoscaling to cut compute costs by hundreds of thousands a month. Built policy enforcement and governance into the platform so teams ship safely without slowing down. Led a zero-downtime dual-stack network migration across the fleet.

Amazon Web Services / Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Jun 2020 — Jul 2022

Toronto, ON

Helped enterprise customers rethink how they build and run infrastructure on AWS. Designed cloud-native architectures, built observability stacks that cut incident response times sharply, and found cost savings teams did not know they were leaving on the table.

Total E&P / Software Engineer

Apr 2017 — May 2020

Victoria Island

Moved a portfolio of finance applications from on-premises datacentres to the cloud with zero downtime. Built the internal tooling that tied it all together — from database migrations to a transaction management portal handling eight-figure real estate deals.

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

Elsewhere