Ade A.

Hello, I am Ade, an Enterprise Solutions Architect focused on AI, Application and Infrastructure solutions. I design and deliver cloud-native platforms, AI/ML systems, and scalable enterprise architectures that turn complex technical problems into measurable business outcomes.

About me

I have spent 15+ years at the intersection of infrastructure, cloud, and software — starting with physical data centres and routing tables in Lagos, and working my way through DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, and now Enterprise Solutions Architecture. Each role taught me that the best technical decisions are the ones grounded in real-world constraints, not just what looks clean on a whiteboard.

Today I work as a Customer Architect at Elastic, helping enterprise teams unlock the full potential of the Elastic Stack across Search, Observability, and Security. That means designing AI-powered search pipelines with vector embeddings and ELSER, building petabyte-scale log analytics platforms with OpenTelemetry and LogsDB, and architecting SIEM and threat-detection solutions for Fortune 500 environments.

The thread running through all of it is the same: I like hard problems. Whether it is shaving 65% off Elasticsearch storage costs, wiring up an AI/ML inference pipeline in the cloud, or helping a platform team get their first real SLO in place — I get satisfaction from making complex systems simpler and more reliable for the people who depend on them.

My projects

Pulumi Infra App

A python based app that allows you to create and destroy storage buckets on AWS and GCP using Pulumi

GCP
AWS
Pulumi
Python

Demo - AWS Serverless Deployment

Simple terraform deployment for a REST API with AWS serverless infrastructure, API Gateway, s3 and Lambda

AWS
Serverless
Lambda
API-Gatewway
Terraform

K8s Multitenant App

A simple containerized based application packaged with helm and deployed with kubenetes as a multi-tenant application on kubernetes

Python
Terraform
Kubernetes
K3d
Helm

RAG Local Chat Assistant

Simple Chat interface to implement RAG using a local Vectordb, documents and GPT4AllEmbeddings

Python
AI Chatbot
LLM
RAG
Hugginface
Embeddings
VectorDB

Arch Chat Bot

A Streamlit Chat interface that uses RAG to create architectural diagrams from python diagram module

Python
AI
RAG
OpenAI
Streamlit

Rag Chat Bot

React Chat interface to implement RAG using personal documents on AWS Bedrock and perform agent based actions

React
AI
RAG
AWS Bedrock
lambda

Aspirehub.org

Web development, management and deployment for Aspirehub.org with the creation of google workspace and best practice for cloud and security adoption

Webhosting
Infrastructure Security
Security+
Workspace

Technology Skills

AWS
GCP
Azure
IBM
Git
Linux
Windows
Ubuntu
Apple
Cisco
PaloAlto
HP
DELL
Vmware
Wordpress
Cpanel
Server
Virtualization
Networking
Security
Database
Mysql
Postgres
Mongodb
Docker
k8s
Helm
Istio
Cilium
Github
GithubAction
Gitea
AzureDevOps
CircleCI
TravisCI
Jenkins
Sonaqube
Synk
Artifactory
Prisma
AquaSecurity
Spinnaker
Gitlab
BitBucket
Buildkite
Terraform
Vagrant
Ansible
Pulumi
Python
Bash
Powershell
go
Nodejs
React
PHP
nextjs
Java
API
LoadBalancer
Nginx
Apache
Consul
Dev
Splunk
Elastic
Logstash
Kibanna
Prometheus
Grafana
DynaTrace
NewRelic
Datadog
Sentry
pagerDuty
Opentelemetry

My experience

Customer Architect

Elastic, CA, US

Serve as a Trusted Technical Advisor, driving adoption and expansion of Elastic solutions across Search, Observability, and Security. Design and deliver AI-powered architectures leveraging Elasticsearch enterprise-grade features. Architect enterprise-grade observability platforms using defined solutions for petabyte-scale log analytics. Lead Security use-case deployments integrating SIEM, threat detection, and Attack Discovery for Fortune 500 customers. Define Technical Success Plans aligned to customer business outcomes, translating complex Elastic capabilities into measurable ROI.

2024 - Present

Lead Cloud Solutions Architect

360ace Tech, AB, CA

As a consultant and owner of 360ace Tech, I helped multiple small and large-scale customers in their cloud adoption journey, implementing foundation, migration, security, and integration solutions based on their business requirements.

2021 - 2024

Cloud Architect

SADA, CA, US

Designed and implemented large-scale foundational cloud architectural solutions for enterprise customers. Performed large-scale workload migration, implementing infrastructure and application modernization requirements for customers. Performed training and workshops for internal and external stakeholders with an emphasis on cloud adoption strategies.

2021 - 2023

Customer Engineer, Reliability Engineer

Tetrate, Milpitas, US

Implemented application modernization solutions with dockerized workloads and Kubernetes across large scale enterprise, leveraging istio service mesh for network security and traffic management, with Otel, for trace visibility and logging, and Elasticsearch for search and analytics. Implemented SRE solutions for customers across multiple cloud platforms for day-2 operations of Tetrate service bridge and Istio solutions.

2021 - 2021

DevOps Specialist

Telus, Edmonton, CA

Designed and implemented application modernization, CI/CD, and platform engineering for workloads across multiple frameworks. Architected and implemented containerized workloads across various Kubernetes platforms - AKS, GKE, EKS, and OpenShift. Designed, implemented, and managed SDDC (virtualization, storage, networking) solutions for CDN workloads required for content delivery. Leveraged IaC for automated deployments across the enterprise.

2019 - 2021

Senior Network and Systems Administrator

Calgary Parking Authority, Calgary, CA

Redesigned the enterprise IT infrastructure and implemented key security solutions to meet PCI and SOC standards. Implemented Office 365 integrations and migration of internal services to cloud platforms on AWS and Azure. Designed, implemented and managed SDDC (virtualization, storage, networking) solutions. Implemented application modernization solutions with dockerized workloads and Kubernetes accross the enterprise

2018 - 2019

Manager Infrastructure and Enterprise Solution

Web4Africa, Johannesburg, ZA

Implemented data center collocation across multiple regions in Africa. Designed and implemented IPv6 adoption across the enterprise with internet (BGP) and internet exchange integration across multiple data centers. Designed and implemented large-scale infrastructure automation and proactive management across the web hosting platform improving customer retention and overall business revenue

2016 - 2018

Infrastructure and DevOps Specialist

Konga Online, Capetown, ZA

Implemented campus area infrastructure solution for the company warehouse. Developed and implemented hybrid cloud solutions for VPN, authentication, database and ETL solutions across on-premise end-users and the cloud infrastructure. Developed and implemented CICD solutions, monitoring and management of local and cloud-based infrastructure and application.

2014 - 2016

Enterprise Network Infrastructure Engineer

Swift Networks, Lagos, NG

Expanded Data Center Infrastructure, integrating new Servers, networking devices and WAN connectivity. Managed over 200 cell sites and integrated LTE solutions across the metropolis and other regions in the country. Coordinated and managed 5 - 10 engineers providing training, mentorship and guidance for improving their work efficiently

2011 - 2014