Damilola Ola

About Damilola Ola

I work across infrastructure, automation, and system reliability, mostly in cloud environments. My background spans enterprise systems where reliability and operational clarity matter, and most of my time is spent keeping systems running after deployment.A lot of my work is about building something and then staying close to it once it is running. That includes cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Linux environments, and the identity and networking pieces that connect everything. I focus on how systems behave once people start using them.I pay attention to where systems break and how those failures show up in practice. When automation is introduced, I look at what changes and what does not. Over time, that usually leads to systems that are easier to understand and less frustrating to operate.Outside of day to day work, I document systems I build by recreating real environments and working through what fails when things do not behave the way they should.Website:

Experience

1. Cloud & Devops Engineer

   Delta Air Lines

   Aug 2023 — Present

   Work on cloud-connected and enterprise infrastructure supporting internal engineering, operations, and business systems. The role focuses on operating and supporting production environments.Build and support CI/CD workflows, infrastructure automation, and monitoring used to deploy and maintain services within controlled change windows. A large part of the work involves troubleshooting service issues across infrastructure and application layers using logs, metrics, and alerts.Maintain runbooks and operational documentation to standardize responses to recurring issues and reduce operational friction over time.

Education

• University of Ilorin, Nigeria

  Bachelor's degree, Geology

• Midwestern State University

  Master's degree, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences