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Olusola Akinsulere

@olusolaakinsulere

Engineering leader building reliable, scalable backend systems and data-driven products.

Finland
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What I'm looking for

I seek leadership roles where I can build resilient backend platforms, improve observability and SLOs, mentor engineers, and deliver measurable business impact in scalable product teams.

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

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Current

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.

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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.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Lagos logoUL

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.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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