David Olorundare is a founder and multidisciplinary technologist with a decade of experience building AI, cloud, games, and data-driven systems aimed at social impact across Africa. He combines hands-on software engineering—contributing security enhancements and tests to high-profile open-source projects like Jenkins—with product vision for decentralized, planet-scale solutions and game-focused experiences. At Google he worked across cloud AI, gaming, and data infrastructure, and he now runs stealth ventures and a transmedia podcast mapping tech ecosystems in Nigerian cities. His background in electrical engineering and advanced AI/game studies (DePaul MS, multiple specialized programs) underpins work spanning ML research, wearables, and decentralized audio infrastructure. Passionate about using games, art, and nature to inspire sustainable solutions, he’s particularly focused on making Africa a leading frontier for the games industry. An often-overlooked strength: he frames civic problems as digital-twin and OS-style design challenges, blending systems thinking with creative media to find unusual, scalable interventions.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Game Systems and Level Design, Game Systems and Level Design at edX
Product Management, Product Management at Udacity
Master of Science - MS Computer Science (AI Concentration), Master of Science - MS Computer Science (AI Concentration) at DePaul University
Advanced Certificate Video Game Publishing, Advanced Certificate Video Game Publishing at DigiPen Institute of Technology
Product Management Certificate Product Management, Product Management Certificate Product Management at Product School
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Ibadan
Game Design Specialization, Game Design Specialization at CG Spectrum
Game Design Game and Interactive Media Design, Game Design Game and Interactive Media Design at MIT Professional Education
AI Research Engineering, AI Research Engineering at ELVTR
Contributions summary:David's contributions focus on enhancing Jenkins' core security features. They added methods to the `SecurityListener` class for handling user creation events and integrated these changes within the `HudsonPrivateSecurityRealm` class, enabling notifications upon user account creation. Furthermore, the user implemented unit tests to validate the new user creation workflows and ensured proper functionality of the user creation process with hashed passwords, integrating with technologies like BCrypt. The changes directly impact how Jenkins manages user accounts and the system's overall security.
Contributions:1014 commits, 1 PR, 423 pushes in 1 month
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