# Ibukun Olatayo Dairo

Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering and Site Reliability

Email: hello@ibukundairo.com
Website: https://ibukundairo.com
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ibukundairo
GitHub: https://github.com/hibeekaey
Location: Remote, worldwide. EMEA and Americas time zones.

## Professional Summary

**Principal engineer** in platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE) and infrastructure reliability, building software since April 2015. **Platform Engineer at Paramount Skydance (Pluto TV)**, where SLO-driven monitoring cut critical incidents by **35%** and mean time to recovery (MTTR) by **40%**. Former founding SRE at Traive, founder of **Cuesoft Inc.**, an AI company that builds its own engineers, and a top-10 contributor to a 7,500-star open-source platform. PhD researcher at the **University of North Dakota** since August 2026, researching **AI-driven methods for infrastructure reliability** that turn monitoring data into preventative insight.

## Key Technologies & Expertise

- **Reliability and Observability:** Site reliability engineering (SRE), SLOs, golden-signal dashboards, monitoring and alerting, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Prometheus, PagerDuty
- **Platform and Cloud Infrastructure:** Platform engineering, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform (infrastructure as code), ArgoCD, GitOps, AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), Docker, Linux, multi-tenant architecture
- **CI/CD:** GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab
- **Languages and Frameworks:** Go, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, JavaScript, Bash, Next.js, React, Angular, Vue.js, Ionic, Flutter
- **Data and Streaming:** PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, Kafka, Firebase
- **Leadership:** Technical leadership, system design, engineering management, business strategy, coaching and mentoring, open-source software

## Work Experience

### Paramount Skydance (Pluto TV) | September 2021 - Present

_Platform Engineer (Contract via Andela) | California, United States (Remote)_

- Led the organization-wide migration to **OpenTelemetry**, personally authoring the logging library that keeps telemetry consistent across **70+ microservices**.
- Drove **SLO-driven monitoring** with golden-signal dashboards and monitors, reducing critical incidents by **35%** and mean time to recovery (MTTR) by **40%**.
- Oversee platform infrastructure and library upgrades for web applications and a video streaming platform serving millions of users.

### Cuesoft Inc. | April 2017 - Present

_Founder & CEO, Principal Engineer | Delaware, United States and Lagos, Nigeria_

- Built Cuesoft from a services practice into an **AI company that builds its own engineers**, with three divisions: CueTA trains engineers on live AI work, CueLABS proves them in public on open-source products and CueHIRE delivers them to companies.
- Co-founded **CueTA**, the talent academy, and mentored **100+ engineers** through Cuesoft Inc. since 2017, across all three divisions.
- Delivered **Cueprise**, a business management system for accounting, inventory, sales, customers and staff, licensed per business and deployed on each client's own cloud.
- Secured over **$250,000** in cloud credits and partner support from AWS, Google Cloud, Datadog and GitHub.
- Host **The CueShow**, the Cuesoft podcast, on a YouTube channel with **20,000+ subscribers**.

### Traive Inc. | September 2021 - April 2025

_Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract via HackerBay) | Massachusetts, United States (Remote)_

- Designed the entire cloud strategy as **founding SRE**, the sole DevOps and reliability engineer from pre-seed onward, supporting **20+ engineers** across three continents.
- Architected and deployed a secure **multi-tenant** IAM and platform system on **Kubernetes**, giving every client an isolated environment and a dedicated database.
- Managed AWS infrastructure as **Terraform modules** and established organization-wide CI/CD practice with **GitHub Actions** and Datadog, cutting infrastructure downtime by **90%**.

### HackerBay Inc. (OneUptime) | August 2019 - August 2021

_Senior Software Engineer (Contract) | Massachusetts, United States (Remote)_

- Built core pieces of the **OneUptime** open-source SRE and monitoring platform: real-time alerting infrastructure and monitoring probes.
- Developed the **Server Monitor** npm package, a daemon that reports CPU, memory and temperature from client machines for alerting.
- Made the platform's website fully **mobile responsive**, removing the immediate need for a separate mobile application.

### Creditclan | December 2017 - July 2019

_Lead Software Developer | Nigeria_

- Led development of fintech applications for lenders, including the **700lenders** marketplace.

### CloudWare Technologies | August 2016 - November 2017

_Web Developer | Nigeria_

### Orbi | April 2015 - July 2016

_Software Developer | Nigeria_

## Education

### University of North Dakota | August 2026 - Present

_PhD in Computer Science_

- Research: **AI-driven methods for infrastructure reliability**.

### Nexford University | August 2023 - July 2025

_MBA, Business Administration_

- Focus: international business, e-commerce and artificial intelligence.

### Udacity | April 2021 - May 2021

_AI Programming with Python Nanodegree_

### University of Ibadan | May 2014 - February 2018

_BSc in Computer Science_

## Certifications & Training

- **LLM Engineering: Master AI, Large Language Models and Agents**
- **GitHub Copilot**
- **Management Essentials**
- **Agile Foundations**

## Projects

- **agent-sync (author):** single-file POSIX sh command-line tool that keeps 17 AI coding agents on one synthesized memory file, installable through Homebrew. https://github.com/hibeekaey/agent-sync
- **OneUptime (core contributor, 2019 to 2021):** open-source observability platform. https://github.com/OneUptime/oneuptime
- **oss-engineering-standards (maintainer):** the engineering standard behind the CueLABS portfolio, with a dependency-free manifest CLI. https://github.com/cuesoftinc/oss-engineering-standards