Sam Okafor

Platform Engineer · he/him

The Platform Builder

Sam genuinely wants developers to have a beautiful experience. This occasionally requires a control plane, a developer portal and a committee to approve the paved road.

“Teams need a paved road.”

Strength: Makes fifty engineers dramatically more productive.
Known failure mode: Starts paving before the third engineer has arrived.
Uniform: Patagonia vest, Kubernetes stickers, excellent ergonomics.
Natural allies: Alex · Pat
Natural foils: Riley

FIELD REPORTS

Stories featuring Sam

3 so far.

FIELD REPORT 011Sam · Pat · Riley

costprioritiesoptimization

We saved $500/month

One engineer-month meets a tiny infrastructure bill.

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FIELD REPORT 003Sam · Riley

kubernetesinfrasimplicity

We have 400 users

The infrastructure review scales faster than the product.

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FIELD REPORT 002Riley · Sam

monorepomultirepodevex

One shared type

A small type definition discovers organizational topology.

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TAKES

Sam's takes

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When should we launch?

Everyone is right. Nobody is launching the same thing.

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When should we make the infra scalable?

Everyone is right. Scale solves the problem each of them is actually worried about.

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