Ayodeji Akinola
Senior Software Engineer at Terrace
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Top SchoolAyodeji Akinola is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable backend and distributed systems, currently pursuing an MSc in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. He designs robust, well-documented systems across languages (Go, Rust, Python, JS/TS, C/C++, Ruby) and has shipped low-latency trading infrastructure and modular libraries for backend and decentralized protocols. Ayodeji contributes to high-profile open-source projects like Reth (Ethereum client) and Cloudflare Pingora, where his work improved RPC performance and transaction handling—demonstrating a focus on practical performance optimizations. Now at Terrace after senior roles at Gandalf and Helicarrier, he blends research-minded engineering with production-grade systems thinking. He publishes technical writing and maintains an active GitHub, signaling a commitment to reproducible, community-facing engineering.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.TECH) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.TECH) Computer Science at Federal University of Technology AkureMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
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Github Skills (11)
distributed-systems10
rpc10
rust10
back-end-development10
ethereum10
blockchain10
json-rpc9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
paradigmxyz/reth
Jul 2024 - Dec 2024
Modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol, in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 PRs, 13 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ayodeji's commits primarily focus on enhancing the `reth` project's back-end functionality. They added a compression layer for JSON-RPC, optimized sender recovery, and introduced a broadcast stream for incoming raw transactions. Furthermore, the user made utility function changes for headers and added a helper type for evm cfg and env tuples. These modifications indicate a focus on improving performance, and adding core RPC functionality.
contributor-friendlyblazingethereump2prust
TheDhejavu/reth
Jul 2024 - Feb 2025
Modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol, in Rust
Contributions:76 pushes, 16 branches in 7 months
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