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James Olaitan — systems and infrastructure engineer

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Experience

Meta

Production Engineering Fellow, SRE (MLH Fellow)

June 2026 – September 2026

Extended Meta’s open-source Linux resource monitor with inline process expansion, then built and operated a production-style Linux service behind NGINX—automated through GitHub Actions and observed with Prometheus and Grafana.

Red Hat

Open Source Contributor, Konflux · Google Summer of Code

May 2026 – August 2026

Made container builds reproducible in Konflux, Red Hat’s security-focused CI/CD platform: authored ADR-0069, shipped reproducibility controls across six upstream pipelines, and built a verifier that rebuilds images from signed SLSA provenance.

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UL Solutions

Compliance Engineer Intern

May 2025 – July 2025

Programmed power targets and ran FCC/ETSI radio-emissions testing across 30+ IoT devices, separating script faults from hardware failures and catching a violation that stopped a noncompliant feature before release.

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