🌩️ Alex Idowu | @9trocode

Cloud Architect • Infrastructure Poet • Open Source Advocate
Building the future of cloud infrastructure from Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬

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👋 Hey there, I'm Alex

I'm Alex Idowu, a Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineer passionate about making DevOps invisible and delightful.
At @PipeOpsHQ, I help developers deploy anywhere—seamlessly, securely, and with confidence.

🌳 “I am Groot.” — My philosophy: Start small, grow strong, and keep reaching for the clouds.

alex_idowu: location: Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬role: Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineercompany: @PipeOpsHQmission: - Democratize cloud infrastructure for all developers - Build tools that make DevOps feel like magic, not maintenance - Contribute meaningfully to open sourcesuperpower: Turning infrastructure chaos into elegant orchestrationmotto: "Automate everything — even coffee ☕"

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🏗️ What I Build

Area	Project	Description	Stack
🌀 Orchestration	pipeops-controller	Kubernetes operator managing deployment workflows	Go • K8s • Cloud Native
⚙️ Execution Engine	pipeops-runner	High-performance CI/CD job executor	Go • Distributed Systems
☁️ Infrastructure as Code	infra	IaC templates and automation for AWS/GCP/Azure	Terraform • IaC
💬 Messaging	messaging-service	Event-driven microservices backbone	Go • Kafka • Microservices

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🧠 Tech Arsenal

Languages

Cloud & Infrastructure

Architecture Patterns

Cloud-Native • Event-Driven • Serverless • GitOps • IaC • Microservices

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📊 Developer Footprint

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🚀 Currently Exploring

🔭	Building next-gen deployment automation with the PipeOps Control Plane
🧠	eBPF, Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd), and Kubernetes Operators
🤝	Collaborating on open-source DevOps and platform engineering tools
☕	Automating life — even my coffee routine via Kubernetes CronJobs

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💡 My Engineering Manifesto

Infrastructure is poetry.
Each line of YAML is a verse. Each commit, a note in the symphony of automation.

constalexIdowu={languages: ["Go","Python","TypeScript","Bash"],principles: ["Automate or deprecate","Security is not optional","Documentation is love for your future self","Every deployment should feel like magic"],motto: "Infrastructure as Code is art in motion."}

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🌐 Connect with Me

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✨ Open Source • Cloud Native • Infrastructure as Poetry

Building the future of cloud infrastructure — one commit at a time.

⭐️ From @9trocode with 💜