Ade Adekoya Enterprise Solutions Architect
Summary Enterprise Solutions Architect with 15+ years across infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering. Currently at Elastic as a Customer Architect, designing AI-powered search, petabyte-scale observability, and enterprise SIEM architectures for Fortune 500 clients. Proven track record across AWS, GCP, and Azure — from data centre foundations to cloud-native Kubernetes platforms to intelligent AI/ML inference pipelines.
Core Competencies Enterprise Architecture AI/ML Platforms Elasticsearch & Elastic Stack Vector Search & RAG Observability (OTel / LogsDB) SIEM & Threat Detection Kubernetes (AKS / EKS / GKE / OpenShift) Platform Engineering Cloud Platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure) Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / Pulumi) GitOps (ArgoCD / FluxCD) DevSecOps Distributed Systems Python / Bash / Go CI/CD (GitHub Actions / GitLab / ArgoCD)
Experience
Customer Architect — Elastic, CA, US Serve as Trusted Technical Advisor for enterprise accounts across Search, Observability, and Security use cases. Design AI-powered architectures using Elasticsearch vector search, ELSER semantic embeddings, and inference endpoints. Architect petabyte-scale log analytics platforms with OpenTelemetry, LogsDB, and OTLP ingestion pipelines. Lead SIEM and threat-detection deployments — 1,895+ detection rules, Attack Discovery, and SOAR integrations — for Fortune 500 environments. Build Technical Success Plans aligned to measurable business outcomes, translating Elastic capabilities into quantified ROI. 2024 – Present
Lead Cloud Solutions Architect — 360ace Tech, AB, Canada Delivered end-to-end cloud adoption, migration, and platform engineering engagements for SMB and enterprise customers. Reduced infrastructure provisioning time by 50% via IaC-first delivery on Terraform and Pulumi across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Led multi-cloud Kubernetes modernisation — AKS, EKS, GKE, OpenShift — including GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD and FluxCD. Designed and implemented AI-based solutions for improved infrastructure delivery and end-user experience. Provided cloud security governance: PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2 compliance posture across multiple customer environments. 2021 – 2024
Cloud Architect — SADA Systems, CA, US Led large-scale workload migration and application modernisation for enterprise GCP customers. Transformed monolithic applications to cloud-native Kubernetes microservices, improving DevOps efficiency by 40%. Delivered internal and external workshops on cloud adoption strategy, landing zone design, and DevSecOps practices. Coordinated hybrid network solutions — Direct Connect, VPN, WAN — across multi-cloud topologies. 2021 – 2023
Customer Engineer – SRE / Service Mesh — Tetrate.io, Milpitas, CA, US Trained enterprise DevOps and SRE teams on Istio and Tetrate Service Bridge at scale. Guided application telemetry adoption (OpenTelemetry traces, metrics) within service mesh for observability. Deployed and upgraded Kubernetes-based workloads with CI/CD tooling across GCP, AWS, and Azure. 2021
DevOps Specialist — TELUS Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada Architected highly available containerised infrastructure for CDN workloads on AKS, Tanzu, and OpenShift. Implemented CI/CD automation reducing release windows for cloud deployments by 50%. Integrated APM and logging solutions (Splunk, New Relic) to improve application performance monitoring. 2019 – 2021
Senior Network & Systems Administrator — Calgary Parking Authority, Calgary, AB, Canada Redesigned enterprise IT infrastructure to meet PCI DSS and SOC compliance requirements. Implemented SSO (Okta) and VPN solutions; integrated Office 365 and Azure cloud services. 2018 – 2019
Manager, Infrastructure & Enterprise Solutions — Web4Africa, Johannesburg, ZA Managed data centre colocation and BGP routing across 4 African data centres including IPv6 adoption. Led automation initiatives reducing deployment times by 25%; improved customer retention and business ROI. 2016 – 2018
Infrastructure & DevOps Specialist — Konga Online Shopping, Cape Town, ZA Implemented hybrid cloud solutions and CI/CD pipelines for warehouse and logistics infrastructure. Developed in-house open-source monitoring tools reducing infrastructure tooling costs by 30%. 2014 – 2016
Enterprise Network Infrastructure Engineer — Swift Networks Limited, Lagos, NG Managed 200+ cell sites and LTE deployments; maintained 99.9% network uptime across the metropolis. 2011 – 2014 Certifications Elastic
Elastic Certified Engineer Elastic Certified Practitioner Elastic Certified Observability Engineer Google Cloud
Professional Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Professional Cloud Network Engineer AWS
Solutions Architect Professional DevOps Engineer Professional Solutions Architect Associate Developer Associate Azure
Solutions Architect Expert Administrator Associate DevOps Engineer Expert Kubernetes
CKA – Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKAD – Certified Kubernetes Application Developer Other
VMware VCP-DCV, VCP-NV Cisco CCNP Enterprise, CCS-Enterprise LPI Linux Essentials IBM Cloud Kubernetes Education B.Eng, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) — Nigeria
2010 Use Save as PDF above to export, or print via your browser (Ctrl/Cmd + P ).
© 2026 Ade A.