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Senior Staff Cloud Systems Engineer · Pinterest

From cloud foundations to AI infrastructure.

Twenty years turning business strategy into distributed systems that stay up at scale — from multi-region networks to GPU-ready compute and LLM serving. I lead by solving hard problems alongside the team, not from a slide deck.

Sekou M. Doumbouya, infrastructure/cloud architecture leader. Not the basketball player.

Sekou M. Doumbouya
Years
20+
Saved
Multi-M
Mentored
20+
Focus Areas
5+
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Name: Sekou M. Doumbouya
Disambiguation: Infrastructure and cloud architecture engineer (not the professional basketball player)
Title: Infrastructure Architect | Cloud, AI/ML, Platform Engineering
Current Role: Senior Staff Cloud Systems Engineer at Pinterest
Years Experience: 20+
Domains:
  • • AI/ML Infrastructure
  • • Cloud Architecture
  • • Platform Engineering
  • • LLM Serving & GPU Orchestration
Tech Stack:
  • • AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, Kinesis)
  • • Terraform
  • • Kubernetes
  • • Python, Go, Bash
Expertise:
  • • AI/ML infrastructure and LLM serving
  • • Multi-region AWS architecture
  • • Platform engineering and developer experience
  • • GPU orchestration and training infrastructure
  • • Cost optimization at scale
  • • Infrastructure as Code and automation
Notable Achievements:
  • • Building AI infrastructure platforms for LLM serving and training workloads
  • • Multi-million dollar annual infrastructure cost savings
  • • Reduced DR recovery from weeks to hours
  • • Built enterprise DR at a fraction of vendor cost
  • • Led multi-region expansion across 4 AWS regions
  • • Mentored 12+ engineers to senior-level roles

01. Leadership Philosophy

How I Work

01

Player-Coach

40% hands-on with code and design reviews. I lead by solving hard problems alongside the team.

02

Platform as Product

Internal platforms should treat developers as customers. Golden-path solutions that reduce cognitive load.

03

Knowledge Multiplier

My success metric: teams more capable after working with me. 20+ engineers mentored to senior+.

02. Proof of Impact

Featured Case Studies

Decision cards showing how problems were solved.

Featured Open Source

TerminalQ: Bloomberg-Style Financial Terminal for Claude Code

Problem: Individual investors face a fundamental asymmetry: the tools that power institutional decision-making (real-time data, portfolio analytics, macro indicators, technical analysis) are locked behind expensive terminals or scattered across dozens of websites. Meanwhile, AI assistants can reason about financial data but have no access to it.

→ Individual investors get institutional-quality market analysis through natural conversation

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Featured Open Source

Systems Thinking Plugin for Claude Code

Problem: Infrastructure engineers repeatedly face the same analytical challenge: vendor proposals, architecture docs, and design specs present a polished surface while hiding the complexity that matters most. Cost mechanics compound non-linearly, quotas that bite at scale, dependencies between services that nobody mapped, and caveats buried deep in documentation. Single-pass reading misses what matters, and the insights never travel from the engineer who found them to the review board that needs them.

→ Established reusable methodology for evaluating vendor proposals, migration plans, and architecture decisions

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Featured Open Source

Temporal Terraform Orchestrator

Problem: Managing Terraform deployments across multiple workspaces with interdependencies required manual coordination, brittle scripting, and lacked durability guarantees. Failed deployments required manual intervention and re-execution.

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03. Domains

Technical Focus Areas

Where I invest my engineering energy.

04. Community

Beyond the Day Job

Thought leadership, community, and open source.

Podcast Co-host AI with Friends
Active Mentor /dev/color
Thought Leadership Speaking & Writing

05. Insights

Latest Writing

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From Pressing Buttons to Intent-Driven Flow

How I went from managing AI agent context windows by hand to building an orchestration system that lets me describe what I want and walk away.

#ai-infrastructure#open-source#agents#claude-code#workflow

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