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Technical lead building cloud infrastructure, network architecture, reliability systems, and agentic developer tooling.

2 Short Bio (~100 words)

Sekou M. Doumbouya is a Technical Lead and Senior Staff Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience building infrastructure at scale. He leads cloud networking, capacity, multi-region, and disaster recovery initiatives, and builds open-source infrastructure for reliable human and AI-agent workflows. Previously, he held senior engineering roles at Quip (Salesforce), Oracle, Groupon, and LiveOps.

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Sekou M. Doumbouya is a Technical Lead and Senior Staff Software Engineer at a hyperscale consumer platform. With over 20 years of experience, Sekou works where architecture meets execution across cloud networking, capacity, multi-region infrastructure, disaster recovery, and developer platforms. In his current role, he led a major network architecture transformation delivering multi-million dollar annual savings, shaped next-generation multi-account networking, and helped build disaster recovery capability that reduced a critical recovery path from 20 days to 8 hours at a fraction of vendor cost. He also created the capacity model and strategy used to de-risk IPv4 exhaustion and guide an IPv6 migration. Before Pinterest, Sekou served as Technical Lead – Data Platform SRE at Quip (Salesforce), where he improved system reliability by 15%. At Oracle, he was Principal Systems Engineer developing CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based container deployments. Earlier roles include Senior Systems Engineer at Groupon, Senior Systems Administrator at LiveOps (where he received the Amsterdam Datacenter Creation Award), and Director of Network Operations at Telvue Corporation. Sekou builds open-source agentic developer infrastructure, writes about reliable AI-assisted engineering, mentors in the /dev/color community, and co-hosts the "AI with Friends" podcast. Sekou M. Doumbouya is not affiliated with Sekou Doumbouya, the professional basketball player.

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Talk Topics

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Reliable Infrastructure for AI Coding Agents

What mature infrastructure practice can teach us about agent orchestration. Covers durable project state, evidence-gated completion, runtime-neutral workflows, local model routing, and the failure modes that appear when autonomous work meets shared systems.

30-45 min Infrastructure Engineers, Platform Teams, Engineering Leaders

Multi-Region Architecture at Hyperscale

A deep dive into building resilient multi-region systems for hundreds of millions of users. Covers VPC architecture patterns, disaster recovery strategies, and the tradeoffs between Transit Gateway and VPC peering at scale.

30-45 min Platform Engineers, SREs, Cloud Architects

The Multi-Million-Dollar Migration: Cost Optimization Without Downtime

Case study of a major infrastructure transformation that delivered multi-million dollar annual savings while maintaining zero production downtime. Discusses parallel migration strategies, rollback planning, and stakeholder communication.

30 min Engineering Leaders, Cloud Architects, Finance Partners

Player-Coach Leadership in Platform Engineering

How to stay technically relevant while leading at the staff+ level. Balancing hands-on work with strategic influence, building trust through expertise, and mentoring without micromanaging.

30 min Senior Engineers, Engineering Managers, Tech Leads

Building DR Capability at a Fraction of Vendor Cost

Building enterprise-grade DR capability in-house instead of buying. Covers tool selection, automation patterns, testing strategies, and the business case for building vs. buying.

45 min SREs, Platform Engineers, Engineering Leaders

Podcast

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AI With Friends

Your weekly launchpad into the world of Artificial Intelligence

Three industry experts bring together GenAI innovation strategy, engineering leadership, and cloud systems expertise to make AI insights accessible, actionable, and exciting.

Co-host · Live on LinkedIn every Wednesday at 10:00 AM ET · 24 episodes

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Co-hosts

Marlon Avery

GenAI Innovation Strategist

Adrian Green

VP of Engineering, LiveNation

Sekou Doumbouya

Technical Lead, Senior Staff Software Engineer

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