The technology sector is rapidly evolving, which influences the kind of skills needed based on global best practices. In recent years, the technology industry has beckoned for stringent specialization as technology-based businesses found the urgent need to optimize product delivery and operations. This is one of the reasons technology leaders are adapting their internal teams to take on these new challenges, hence the emergency of the DevOps role. As a result, a lot of Software engineers are considering the need to move into development and operations in addition to their expertise in developing enterprise solutions.
In this article, you will learn about the journey of Obiora Okoye and how he became an Enterprise DevOps Coach through his wealth of experience as Software Engineer at Sidmach Technologies.
For Obiora, becoming a DevOps coach is not a matter of happenstance. His decision to transition from being a Software Engineer to a team lead, leading the DevOps activities at Sidmach indicates that it was time to take on a new challenge and utilize his over 15 year’s experience to help other engineers excel in their roles.
Highlights of his responsibilities:
Obiora made the decision to transition into a role as an Enterprise DevOps Coach. In this capacity, he is responsible with tasks for improving their software development activities and ensuring best practices is implemented. Obiora saw it as a new opportunity to serve the company diligently, despite it will be challenging.
As an Enterprise DevOps Coach, Obiora was responsible for implementing DevOps activities such as continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
He also responsible for automating software testing and deployment processes, that improves the speed and reliability of their software releases.
He is proactive in his role by helping teams to improve their monitoring and logging systems, to promptly identify and resolve issues that arise in software production.
In summary, Obiora’s guidance and mentorship had a significant impact on the engineering teams, as they were able to shorten product features release cycles to days instead of weeks, due to pre-release issue drops significantly.
He continues to work with Sidmach Technologies and continues to drive innovation and efficiencies in the company’s software development process.
Obiora’s story should serve as an inspiration to other Software engineers who are considering taking on a leadership role, and shows that with hard work, dedication, and the right mindset, anyone can make a successful transition into technology leadership.
