About
Ibidapo Awosanya is a Senior Cloud / Platform Engineer and the founder of ForgeStack AI. With a career spanning 15+ years in cloud architecture, platform engineering and DevOps, he designs and operates production infrastructure across AWS and Azure. Previously, as a Senior Cloud Engineer at British Airways / IAG Tech, he delivered multi-cloud platform engineering across BA Digital Core IT.
Enterprise Experience
Ibidapo has architected and operated high-availability, multi-cloud infrastructure for FTSE 100 organizations, global fintechs and the public sector. His work spans British Airways / IAG Tech, SEGRO plc, Slimming World and Merton Council, delivering platform reliability, security and scale for systems serving hundreds of thousands of users.
Technical Expertise
| Cloud Infrastructure | AWS: EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudFormation. Azure: AKS, DevOps, Functions, Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Monitor, Key Vault, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL. |
| Containerization | Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Docker, Microservices Architecture, Helm, Istio Service Mesh |
| Infrastructure as Code | Terraform, Ansible, Bicep, ARM Templates |
| CI/CD & DevSecOps | GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, RBAC, HashiCorp Vault, Network Policies |
| Observability & Data | Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, Splunk, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, ETL Pipelines |
Education
Ibidapo holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Birmingham.
Current focus
Alongside cloud and platform engineering, I founded
ForgeStack AI Ltd. ForgeStack's current work focuses on release evidence for regulated software teams using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions and AWS-native CI/CD: preserving the link between a change, its approval, testing and production deployment.