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Gbemileke Niniola

@gbemilekeniniola

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Senior software engineer specializing in scalable recommendation systems and ML infrastructure.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building scalable, low-latency recommendation or data/ML infrastructure in collaborative, product-focused teams where I can mentor engineers and improve system performance.

I am a results-driven senior software engineer with 10+ years building large-scale distributed systems, search and recommendation platforms, and data-intensive applications. I have delivered high-impact features at Pinterest and Electronic Arts, improving user engagement, reducing latency, and enhancing ML model performance.

I specialize in full-stack development (React, Java, GraphQL), backend microservices (Java, gRPC, Redis), and ML infrastructure (TensorFlow, Faiss, Airflow), and I enjoy mentoring engineers, optimizing systems, and shipping resilient cloud-native solutions on GCP and AWS.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Mar 2019 - Present (6 years 7 months)

Led development of retrieval, recommendation, and search systems, driving a 40%+ increase in user engagement and improving shopping CTR by 35%; reduced tail latency of ranking pipelines by 45% and accelerated embedding index refresh times by 60%.

Java Python React GraphQL gRPC Kubernetes Redis Machine Learning Distributed Systems

Software Engineer

Electronic Arts

Jul 2015 - Mar 2019 (3 years 8 months)

Built EA's global big data analytics platform and ETL pipelines processing 3B+ daily events with 99.9% uptime, improved analytic response times by 60%, and enabled churn models that improved retention predictions by 25%.

Spring Boot Kafka Hadoop Hive Redshift MySQL AngularJS ETL Data Pipelines

Software Engineer Intern

Amazon

Jun 2014 - Aug 2014 (2 months)

Built a web service to send referral emails for global Amazon programs, contributing to cross-region referral workflows and integration with internal systems.

REST APIs Web Services Backend Development Java AWS

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Stony Brook University

Master of Science, Computer Science

2013 - 2015

Completed a Master of Science in Computer Science focusing on advanced algorithms, machine learning, and scalable systems from 2013 to 2015.

Sun Yat-sen University

Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering

2009 - 2013

Earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering with coursework in software development, data structures, and systems engineering from 2009 to 2013.