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Divine Odazie

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The Founder of EverythingDevOps, Divine Odazie, is a Developer Relations Professional and Technical Writer with over 8+ years of experience in Technology and a track record in Backend Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Native, and Developer Relations on a global scale. He has given talks/workshops at developer conferences like Open Source Summit Europe, KubeCon North America, Cloud Native Rejekts, and Ansible Contributor Summit.

He also supports the cloud native community in Africa as a KCD (Kubernetes Community Days) Organizer, and other communities empowering Africa with Technology.

Posts (6)

Nov 26, 2025 ∙ 7 min

Securing the Golden Paths of Your Platform

As more teams embrace platform engineering, golden paths have become the go-to approach for streamlining developer workflows. Fundamentally, it solves the “how can/should I do this?” problem for developers in engineering teams. The goal is to set up a complete development environment, with the networking, integration, security, governance, compliance, and deployment aspects of the software delivery pipeline —

Oct 15, 2025 ∙ 5 min

Cost Optimisation Strategies for Platform Engineering Teams

Platform engineering promises to accelerate delivery and reduce complexity, but if not approached deliberately, it can quickly become a cost sink. This article examines the hidden costs in platform engineering and explores cost-optimisation strategies to maintain a lean approach without compromising innovation.

Sep 15, 2025 ∙ 5 min

The Engineering Manager’s Guide to Establishing Platform Buy-In (Before You Build Anything)

When building a platform, engineering leaders often focus on technology choices without first building a shared vision with developers, specialist teams and other stakeholders. This results in low adoption or, in the worst case, wasted investment. This article will provide a practical leadership framework for securing developer support before a single platform component is built.