Olusola Akinsulere
@olusolaakinsulere
Engineering leader building reliable, scalable backend systems and data-driven products.
What I'm looking for
I am an engineering leader with deep backend and systems experience, focused on designing scalable, reliable services and data pipelines that drive measurable business outcomes.
Across roles I have led teams to split monoliths, build multi-tenant event pipelines, and migrate systems to service architectures—delivering faster deployments, higher throughput, and reduced defaults.
I emphasize observability, SLIs/SLOs, runbooks and robust on-call practices to improve recovery times and reduce regressions, while mentoring engineers from junior to staff levels in system design and DSA.
My work blends hands-on technical contributions (Node.js, Go, Python, databases, cloud platforms) with people leadership—improving forecasting accuracy, increasing transaction success, and scaling infrastructure to support growth.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Engineering Lead
Retailloop
May 2022 - Present (3 years 6 months)
Designed multi-tenant retail event pipelines and forecasting workflows that improved sales forecast accuracy ~70% and scaled cloud infrastructure to support increased users and transactions while maintaining high release cadence.
Team Lead (Payroll and Personal Banking)
Zedcrest
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025 (1 year 9 months)
Built payroll ingestion and credit decision APIs that reduced processing time 75% (48h→12h), increased monthly throughput 50%, lowered approval delays 30%, and reduced risk defaults from 8% to 5% using ML signals.
Lead Backend Developer
Slide
May 2022 - Jun 2023 (1 year 1 month)
Extracted POS into a separate domain from the monolith, driving a 60% increase in transaction success and improving team output ~80% through documentation, runbooks, and onboarding improvements.
Lead Backend
Terragon
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022 (9 months)
Maintained 99.9% uptime on data and marketing pipelines while scaling systems ~3×, accelerating key queries ~70%, and expanding telco integrations ~75% through async jobs and caching layers.
Engineering Lead
Retailar
Jul 2019 - Jun 2021 (1 year 11 months)
Delivered APIs and MVPs in 3 months, migrated a monolith to services achieving ~3× performance and ~50% faster deployments, and integrated credit scoring that reduced defaults ~20%.
Software Engineer
FieldInsight
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019 (1 year 2 months)
Built dynamic-forms backend serving 15k+ field users, implemented batch reporting over ~1TB with Celery/RabbitMQ and retries/backpressure, and raised test coverage from ~30% to 70%+ reducing production bugs ~60%.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Lagos
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2012 - 2017
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework and projects covering software engineering, data structures, and distributed systems.
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Portfolio
github.com/lanreyJob categories
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