Alex Oladele

Technical Leadership:

• Technical Owner for GitHub Enterprise Server: Maintain high availability for 65k+ users on GitHub Enterprise Server. Accelerated upgrade timeline to perform 4 major version upgrades in just 6 months, delivering new features faster while ensuring platform security. Leverage extensive Ansible, shell, and Python automation to cut deployment time by 60% and eliminate configuration drift across 90+ immutable Linux servers.
• Drive infrastructure migrations: Implement new logging solutions using OpenTelemetry Collector and automate 90+ Linux servers using Ansible and Terraform, improving system visibility and reducing manual maintenance by 40%.
• Enhance security operations: Conduct quarterly security/privacy assessments and risk remediation, ensuring compliance and protecting sensitive intellectual property.
• Lead cross-functional teams: Manage sprint planning, roadmap development, and blameless postmortem sessions following service incidents. Facilitate collaborative analysis that identifies systemic improvements rather than individual errors, resulting in 50% reduction in recurring issues while ensuring alignment with IBM's strategic technology goals.
• Orchestrate change management: Minimize service disruptions through formal change board presentations, maintaining zero unplanned outages during major upgrades.

Community Engagement & Professional Development:

• Govern IBM Eminence Community of Practice: Co-lead the development of a conference database with a custom FastAPI backend, enhancing the visibility of speaking opportunities across the organization and strengthening IBM's industry presence.
• Facilitate monthly developer community meetings: Foster an inclusive forum for 30+ monthly participants, promoting knowledge sharing and confidence building through technical and non-technical presentations.
• IBM Developer Profession Contributions: Lead public help sessions for IBM Developer Profession certification candidates, review professional certification submissions, and provide guidance to help colleagues advance their technical careers, contributing to IBM's culture of continuous professional development and technical excellence.
• Create onboarding videos for developer new-hire program: Develop content on public speaking and presentation skills, impacting 100+ global entry-level developers and supporting professional development initiatives.

• Developed and deployed multi-threaded data pipelines (Kafka) to optimize Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) process, supporting $1B+ annual revenue.

  • Quote-to-Cash is a business process pipeline that transforms service quotes into final contracts through streamlined negotiation, review, and execution

• Managed automated deployments to Kubernetes/OpenShift (IBM Cloud) via Jenkins, with monitoring via New Relic and LogDNA.

• Ensured system stability through on-call support (PagerDuty) and code triage, while providing onboarding and coaching to new team members.

• Led development within a four-person team to create an automated software tool that transformed the manual business rules implementation process, significantly accelerating the Quote to Cash workflow and enhancing efficiency for Pricing Services operations
• Gained specialized expertise in Apttus CRM, a sophisticated Salesforce plugin, developing proficiency in configuring and optimizing this enterprise solution to streamline the conversion of sales opportunities into executable contracts on the Salesforce platform

• Direct day-to-day operations of InspireNC non-profit, overseeing strategic initiatives and program execution to maintain organizational effectiveness and maximize student impact
• Develop and deliver a comprehensive Java programming curriculum to new members, establishing the technical foundation required for successful FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) participation.
• Facilitate monthly design and build workshops that provide structured environments for hands-on learning, collaborative problem-solving, and practical application of engineering principles.

• Mentor students in technical problem-solving approaches for robotics engineering challenges, fostering critical thinking skills that translate to academic and professional growth