Summary
Blessing Pariola is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building distributed systems and backend services using Go and Rust, currently based in Rotterdam. He has driven production workloads at fast-moving product companies—most recently leading backend efforts at Typeform and Bird—working with Kafka, AWS/Kubernetes, gRPC and cloud-native messaging patterns. His background spans fintech-like platforms (Gigs), automation engines for marketing workflows, and internal ops tooling, reflecting a knack for reliable event-driven architectures and high-throughput pipelines. A digital nomad at heart, he combines pragmatic engineering with a preference for lightweight, polyglot stacks (Go, Ruby, Elixir) and has repeatedly moved from prototype to scalable production. He brings hands-on technical leadership, having served as a technical lead and consistently shipping systems that connect services, queues and data stores across cloud providers.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at KWARA STATE UNIVERSITY, MALETE
English, Yoruba