Abiola Malik
Staff Software Engineer at Payrails
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAbiola Malik is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11+ years of experience building cloud-native backend systems and leading cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, cost-efficient platforms. He combines hands-on Go and PHP development with systems design expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, observability, and CI/CD to drive operational excellence and measurable cost savings (e.g., cutting DynamoDB spend by €9,000/month). At Delivery Hero he architected and grew the Server-Driven UI backend, authored RFCs, and scaled a backend team while mentoring engineers and simplifying SDK integrations for product teams. Previously at HelloFresh he migrated monoliths to Go services, implemented observability, and led retention-focused experiments that improved customer lifecycle metrics. Known for pragmatic architecture, a focus on developer productivity, and a mentorship-first leadership style, he also brings a background of building APIs and event-driven microservices across e-commerce and high-growth platforms.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Ibadan
English, Yoruba
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Github Skills (3)
paystack9
sdk8
php6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MalikAbiola/paystack-php-lib
Feb 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:5 releases, 64 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 4 months
phppaystacksdkphp-sdk
DC-Dev-Team/opensourcepos
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Open Source Point of Sale is a web based point of sale application written in PHP using CodeIgniter framework. It uses MySQL as the data back end and has a Bootstrap 3 based user interface.
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 11 months
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