Kunle Ogunlana

Platform Engineer  ·  Distributed Systems  ·  Production Kubernetes  ·  Observability-Native Design

☸️ Platform Engineering
🔗 Distributed Systems Design
🔭 Production Observability
📋 Contract-Driven APIs
🚀 CI/CD Governance
🔒 Zero-Trust Security
🗄️ Polyglot Persistence
🐳 GitOps · Helm · Kubernetes
Production Observability Stack Diagram

Full-Stack Observability on Kubernetes

Enterprise observability architecture: OpenTelemetry Collector, Jaeger distributed tracing, Prometheus + Grafana metrics, and Elasticsearch/Kibana (ECK) for log aggregation. Deployed with Helm operators, secured with Cloudflare Zero Trust + OAuth2 Proxy — no public endpoints.

OpenTelemetry Jaeger Prometheus Grafana ECK Helm
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Production Database as a Service on Kubernetes

Database-as-a-Service on Kubernetes

Kubernetes-native deployments for Oracle DB 23c, PostgreSQL 17, MS SQL Server 2022, and MySQL 8 InnoDBCluster. Automated schema lifecycle (deploy → schema-load → seed → rollback), least-privilege app users per service, in-memory password substitution, and namespace isolation. Powers the ShopEase polyglot persistence layer.

Oracle DB 23c PostgreSQL 17 MS SQL Server MySQL 8 Kubernetes Helm
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DevOps CI/CD Pipeline Diagram

GitLab CI/CD Pipeline Automation

Multi-stage GitLab CI/CD pipeline for containerised Java applications. Custom Docker CI image preloaded with Vault, Helm, kubectl, and deployment tooling. Automated image builds, registry pushes to GHCR, and Helm-driven Kubernetes deployments with environment-specific values.

GitLab CI/CD Docker Helm Vault Kubernetes
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Earlier projects demonstrating core software engineering principles — application architecture, design patterns, and full-stack fundamentals.

Foundation Microservices Architecture

Twitter-Clone Microservices

Spring Boot microservices (User, Message, Gateway) on Kubernetes with GitLab CI/CD, Helm deployments, JWT authentication, and an integrated observability stack (OTel + Jaeger + Prometheus).

Spring Boot Kubernetes Helm JWT
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Foundation Java EE App Screenshot

Java EE Grocery Web Application

Monolithic dynamic web application using JSP, Servlets, JDBC, and MySQL/HSQLDB. Demonstrated full-stack Java EE patterns as the baseline for microservice decomposition.

Java EE JSP JDBC MySQL
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Foundation Swing Solitaire

Java Swing Solitaire Game

Desktop Solitaire implementing MVC architecture with Java Swing and AWT. Drag-and-drop interface, game state machine, and scoring logic — demonstrating core OOP design principles.

Java Swing AWT MVC
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Platform Engineering · Architecture

Building a Production-Grade Microservices Platform on Kubernetes

An architectural deep dive into ShopEase — covering Domain-Driven design decisions, polyglot language choices, contract-driven API testing, CI/CD governance, OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation, and zero-trust NetworkPolicies. The thinking behind 330+ tests across five layers and a five-minute GitOps deployment loop.

March 2026 18 min read DDD Kubernetes Observability Contract Testing CI/CD
Observability · DevOps

Designing a Production-Grade Observability Stack on Kubernetes

How I built a cloud-native observability system with full coverage across logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry Collector, Jaeger, Prometheus/Grafana, and ECK — secured behind Cloudflare Zero Trust.

June 2025 4 min read
CI/CD · Kubernetes

Implementing CI/CD and Helm for Cloud-Native Application Deployment

How CI/CD pipelines and Helm charts combine to create robust, repeatable Kubernetes deployments — secrets management, multi-service dependencies, and idempotent release strategies.

June 2025 4 min read
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I am Kunle Ogunlana — a platform engineer, software developer, and cybersecurity professional building cloud-native systems that are production-ready from day one.

My engineering practice centres on building systems that are independently deployable, jointly observable, and collectively trustworthy. I apply Domain-Driven Design to service boundaries, enforce API contracts between teams through automated testing, instrument every service for distributed tracing from the start, and treat the network as untrusted by default.

ShopEase is the culmination of this practice — a live, deployed platform demonstrating enterprise-grade patterns across the full stack: microservice decomposition, polyglot persistence, Testcontainers integration testing, five-layer CI/CD governance, auto-instrumented observability, and zero-trust Kubernetes networking.

info.cideveloper@gmail.com  ·  GitHub ↗

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