Cloud Engineer Toronto, ON

Joseph
Olutimehin

Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer.


I build and secure infrastructure on Google Cloud: Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, VPC and IAM, provisioned with Terraform and released through approval-gated Cloud Build pipelines. Four-plus years of production work sits behind that: blockchain security at Coinbase, backend systems in TypeScript and Node, and an on-call rotation that taught me what reliability actually costs.

The security background is not a detour. I have completed 30+ security reviews of money-moving systems and led architecture reviews where the failure mode was irreversible. I bring that same posture to cloud work: least-privilege IAM, segmented networks, immutable releases, and logging you can answer questions with at 3am.

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Certification

Associate Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud

Issued
27 July 2026
Expires
27 July 2029
Certification ID
0e97354c793b4d6ea3186b77d3674f48
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Cloud projects

Stablecoin Whale Monitor v3

Live

Event-driven platform on Google Cloud

A Terraform-managed GCP platform that indexes confirmed USDC and USDT transfers on Ethereum mainnet into immutable NDJSON objects in private Cloud Storage, and serves them from its own store rather than a third-party API. Generation-guarded checkpoints make crash recovery idempotent: a restart re-reads its own position instead of double-writing.

  • Node.js indexer, Express API and Nodemailer alerter containerised with Docker. Continuous processing runs on a Cloud Run Worker Pool, with least-privilege Cloud Run services behind Pub/Sub OIDC push, Secret Manager, lifecycle retention, retries and dead-letter handling.
  • Statically exported Next.js and React dashboard served from a private GCS origin through a global HTTPS load balancer, Cloud CDN and Cloud Armor; /api/* routed to Cloud Run through a serverless NEG.
  • Approval-gated Cloud Build CI/CD with tests, typechecking, Terraform validation, immutable Artifact Registry digests, release-tag deployment and smoke tests.
  • Cloud Monitoring and Logging alerts on uptime, p99 latency, degraded health, Pub/Sub backlog, dead-letter depth and indexer liveness.

Second project

In progress

Currently in build. This space is reserved for it.

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Technical skills

Cloud platforms
Google Cloud (GCP)Compute EngineCloud Run services & worker poolsGKECloud StorageArtifact RegistryCloud SQLPub/SubCloud BuildCloud ArmorCloud CDNCloud MonitoringCloud LoggingSecret ManagerIAMVPC
IaC, CI/CD & automation
TerraformCloud BuildGitHub ActionsDockerKubernetesLinuxBash scriptinggcloud CLIYAMLApproval-gated CI/CDImmutable releasesSmoke testing
Languages & runtime
TypeScriptJavaScript (Node.js)PythonSolidityBashpnpm
Networking
VPC designSubnettingFirewall rulesIngress & egress policyDNSCloud NATGlobal HTTPS load balancingServerless NEGsTLS & certificate management
Security
IAM least privilegeService accountsWorkload IdentityOIDC service authenticationSecret ManagerNetwork segmentationThreat modellingStatic analysisSecure SDLC
Data & messaging
Cloud Storage (GCS)Cloud SQLPub/SubRedisNDJSON
Observability
Cloud MonitoringCloud LoggingStructured loggingUptime checksp99 latencySLO & alerting designPub/Sub backlog & dead-letter monitoring
Web & backend
ExpressNestJSNext.jsReactNodemailerREST APIs
04

Experience

Blockchain Security Engineer

Feb 2025 - Jun 2026

Coinbase

  • Led smart contract security reviews for the Base-Solana Bridge, the x402 payment protocol, the Base Azul network upgrade and numerous other Coinbase core projects, assessing smart contract vulnerabilities, trust boundaries, cross-chain security failures, upgradeability issues, and integration and rollout risk.
  • Conducted 20+ ecosystem security reviews for protocols integrating with Base, defining remediation requirements and release gates before integration or launch.
  • Built and maintained internal AI-powered smart contract auditing tooling used across the security organisation to support repeatable review workflows.
  • Served on call for security incident response, triaging live security incidents and coordinating resolution across engineering and security teams.

Smart Contract Security Researcher

Jan 2023 - Jan 2025

Independent · Code4rena, Cantina, Sherlock, Immunefi, Codehawks, QuillAudits

  • Completed 30+ smart contract security reviews, identifying 50 High- and Medium-severity vulnerabilities validated and accepted by protocol teams.
  • Reviewed a broad mix of DeFi and interoperability protocols including AMMs, lending markets, stablecoins, vaults, bridges and omnichain infrastructure, applying threat modelling and secure-SDLC analysis.

Developer Advocate

Oct 2023 - Mar 2024

INTMAX

  • Contributed to zero-knowledge developer documentation for a ZK rollup, covering protocol concepts, integration guides and onboarding material for external teams building on the network.
  • Drove protocol education and developer onboarding through technical presentations at Google DevFest Lagos and Africa Tech Summit in Nairobi.

Blockchain Developer

Sep 2022 - Jan 2023

Astra Metaverse

  • Designed and deployed ERC-1155 token contracts for a marketplace platform.
  • Built supporting Node.js and TypeScript APIs, integrating backend services with deployed contracts through Ethers.js and Wagmi.

Blockchain Developer

May 2022 - Sep 2022

Collect Waves

  • Built NFT and marketplace contracts with ERC-20 token integration, and the API services supporting them.
  • Delivered the full application stack around the contracts: a frontend connected to on-chain state, and Node.js and TypeScript REST APIs for off-chain data.
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Writing & speaking

Article · Hashnode · Stablecoin Whale Monitor
Building and Deploying a Blockchain Indexer on Google Cloud
Article · Hashnode · Stablecoin Whale Monitor
From Two VMs to Cloud Run: Evolving My Blockchain Indexer on Google Cloud
Talk · DeFi Security Summit
Speaker, representing the Coinbase Security team
2025
Talks · Google DevFest Lagos · Africa Tech Summit Nairobi
Protocol education and developer onboarding
2023 - 2024
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Education

B.Sc. Mathematics

Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria

2018 - 2022

Hiring for cloud infrastructure? Let's talk.

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