Cloud Architect • Infrastructure Poet • Open Source Advocate
Building the future of cloud infrastructure from Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬
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 Engineer
company: @PipeOpsHQ
mission:
- Democratize cloud infrastructure for all developers
- Build tools that make DevOps feel like magic, not maintenance
- Contribute meaningfully to open source
superpower: Turning infrastructure chaos into elegant orchestration
motto: "Automate everything — even coffee ☕"| 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 |
Cloud-Native • Event-Driven • Serverless • GitOps • IaC • Microservices
| 🔭 | 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 |
Infrastructure is poetry.
Each line of YAML is a verse. Each commit, a note in the symphony of automation.
const alexIdowu = {
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."
}
Building the future of cloud infrastructure — one commit at a time.
⭐️ From @9trocode with 💜