I'm James Olaitan, and I build the layer underneath.

Infrastructure & systems engineer.

I work across Linux internals, distributed systems, and reliability.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area · Open to engineering roles

Experience

In progress May 2026 – Aug 2026

Open Source Contributor, Konflux (Google Summer of Code)

Red Hat

Authored a reproducible-build architecture (ADR-0069, under Red Hat review) to keep tampered builds from shipping, wiring opt-in buildah flags through a verification pipeline.

  • Tekton
  • Go
  • buildah
  • Bash
ADR: Reproducible Builds (PR #360) github.com
In progress Jun 2026 – Sep 2026

Production Engineering Fellow, SRE (Meta × MLH)

Meta

A 12-week Linux Foundation SRE curriculum under Meta Production Engineers: containerizing and deploying a Flask service through a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline, instrumented with Prometheus and Grafana.

  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Flask
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • CI/CD
Apr 2024 – Aug 2024 · May 2025 – Jul 2025

Engineering Intern

UL Solutions

Debugged firmware-flashing pipelines across 30+ IoT variants in FCC/ETSI-certified product lines, tracing calibration drift in Linux RF/EMC test environments to raise throughput 20%.

  • Linux
  • Bash
  • RF/EMC Testing

Want someone who lives in the infrastructure layer? Let's talk.