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I build useful products and the infrastructure that runs them.

I'm Mayowa Babatola, a cloud infrastructure engineer with 15+ years in enterprise IT. I build and run products like CivicGrid and ByeByeBalance, and write practical notes on AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Python.

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CivicGrid

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A civic-data API for U.S. local government, starting with verified city leadership for 3,064 cities.

  • Python and FastAPI
  • Supabase Postgres
  • Next.js on Vercel
  • DigitalOcean Kubernetes
  • Terraform Cloud
  • Argo CD (GitOps, app-of-apps pattern)
  • Helm
  • Envoy Gateway and cert-manager
  • Cloudflare DNS and TLS
  • GitHub Actions
  • Prometheus, Alertmanager and Grafana (kube-prometheus-stack)
  • Redis (rate limiting)
  • Healthchecks.io (dead-man's switch)

ByeByeBalance

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A free, open-source debt payoff planner, with calculators, a budget and home-buying tools. No sign-up; every calculation runs in your browser, and your plans stay on your device.

  • Next.js (App Router) and React
  • Vercel
  • Browser local storage (no backend, no accounts)
  • Pure-function finance logic in lib/finance
  • Jest tests against independently computed values
  • GitHub Actions (lint, build, test)
  • Security headers (Content Security Policy and HSTS)
  • Open source (AGPL-3.0)

What I'm doing now

  • Studying for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam.

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· 8 min read · Cloud & DevOps

AWS landing zones, explained

What an AWS landing zone is, what goes into one, and how to build one, with diagrams and plain-language analogies.

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