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Maya Okafor
Senior MLOps Engineer
[email protected] · +44 7700 900418 · London, UK
Professional Summary
Senior MLOps engineer with 9 years in software and 6 in MLOps. Runs the model lifecycle for 14 production models at a payments company, from MLflow-tracked promotion to KServe serving and on-call. Cut experiment-to-production lead time from 3 weeks to 4 days and GPU serving cost per request by 38% without loosening latency targets.
Work Experience
Senior MLOps Engineer
Quayside Payments
Mar 2023 - Present
- Built a model promotion pipeline with MLflow, ArgoCD and automated validation gates, cutting experiment-to-production lead time for fraud models from 3 weeks to 4 days
- Moved real-time fraud scoring onto KServe with canary releases and automatic rollback, holding p95 latency under 60 ms at 2,500 requests per second
- Right-sized the GPU fleet for an internal LLM assistant served with vLLM, lowering cost per 1,000 requests by 38% with the latency SLO and evaluation scores unchanged
- Added drift and data-quality monitoring in Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry that flagged a broken upstream feed within 10 minutes instead of the next morning
- Wrote the incident runbook and led on-call for 14 production models, bringing rollback time down from 45 minutes to under 5
MLOps Engineer
Fernhill Analytics
Jun 2020 - Feb 2023
- Replaced notebook hand-offs with Kubeflow pipelines on Terraform-managed Kubernetes, used by 6 data science teams
- Versioned training data, config and model artifacts for every run, so any production model could be rebuilt from its exact inputs for an audit
- Standardised Docker templates for training and serving, cutting onboarding for a new model team from 3 weeks to 5 days
- Added pipeline checks for schema and data freshness that cut failed nightly training runs from about 20 a month to 3
Backend Software Engineer
Brightmoor Retail
Sep 2017 - May 2020
- Built Python services and CI/CD pipelines for the pricing platform, handling 12M requests a day
- Packaged the data science team's demand-forecast model as a Docker service with latency and input monitoring, the company's first model in production
- Shared on-call for checkout and pricing APIs, and wrote the alerting rules the team still uses
Education
BSc Computer Science
University of Leeds
2017
Skills
Python · Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · AWS (SageMaker) · ArgoCD · MLflow · Kubeflow · Airflow · KServe · vLLM · Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry · CI/CD
Certifications
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)