Bolaji Akande
Senior Software Engineer at Yelp
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBolaji Akande is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with eight years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer workflows across Python, Node.js, JavaScript, Laravel/PHP and both SQL and NoSQL databases. Currently at Yelp, he has held senior backend and technical lead roles at LottieFiles, Iconscout and Gokada, where he architected globally scalable services and led teams through fast-paced launches. He pairs cloud expertise across AWS and Google Cloud with front-end fluency in React and Vue to deliver end-to-end solutions and operational resilience. Bolaji also champions automation—his contributions to Iconscout’s popular Unicons project focused on CI/CD and GitHub Actions to streamline releases—and has a track record of improving search and discovery using ElasticSearch and Algolia. A certified AWS and Google Cloud practitioner, he mentors emerging engineers on ADPList and speaks regularly on cloud and developer best practices, blending hands-on engineering with community-driven impact.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Btech Building, Building Construction Technology, Btech Building, Building Construction Technology at Federal University of Technology Akure
Github Skills (10)
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githubaction-workflow10
scripting10
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npm9
git9
css6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Iconscout/unicons
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Unicons by IconScout offers 7,000+ free 3D and animated icons plus icon fonts in line, monochrome, solid and thin line styles. Use them in your web, iOS or Android design projects.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 22 commits, 3 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Bolaji primarily focused on automating the release and deployment process for the `unicons` repository. Their commits revolve around creating and modifying GitHub Actions workflows to update package dependencies, manage versioning, and create pull requests for releases. They consistently debugged and refined the CI/CD pipeline, addressing errors related to package versioning, git push operations, and the overall workflow execution, ensuring efficient and automated releases.
vector-iconswebfontsperfectfonticonsvector
akandeBolaji/cccatalog-frontend
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
CC Search is a search tool for CC-licensed and public domain content across the internet.
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
licensedpublic-domainsearch-toolsearch-enginedomain
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