Inside DevOps with Oluwateniola Olubowale from United Capital

Oluwateniola Olubowale, a DevOps Engineer at United Capital, discusses the cultural shift and collaborative nature of DevOps, emphasizing automation, transparency, and continuous feedback to drive business outcomes. He shares his journey from backend development to DevOps, motivated by curiosity about inefficiencies in deployment processes, which led him to explore Continuous Integration and Infrastructure as Code. Olubowale highlights the challenges of changing organizational culture to embrace shared ownership and continuous learning, and the rewards of evolving deployment processes to be automated and dependable. He is currently interested in GitOps and Platform Engineering and notes that his organization has implemented several best practices, such as Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and blue/green deployments. Olubowale praises Octopus for streamlining deployment workflows and advises newcomers to focus on DevOps principles before tools, recommending "The Phoenix Project" as a foundational read. He also shares that his initial aspiration to become a marine engineer influenced his approach to software engineering, maintaining a problem-solving mindset.