Elijah Oyekunle is a software engineer with a decade of experience building customer-focused, cloud-native systems and developer tools from frontend React apps to GraphQL backends. Based in San Francisco, he currently works on AI enablement at Splunk and previously shaped cost-management features across AppDynamics, Replex (acquired by Cisco), and Cisco itself. He’s a full-stack contributor to notable open-source projects—improving the Kubernetes Dashboard, enhancing GraphQL server behavior, and refactoring Open Collective’s Next.js frontend and Sequelize-backed API. Comfortable leading technical design and customer-facing engineering, Elijah has a track record of shipping scalable architectures, migration work (dep to go modules), and production testing pipelines. He also co-founded Unpatterned to make data and AI more human-centered, blending entrepreneurial drive with hands-on implementation.
10 years of coding experience
8 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 Akure
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Contributions:25 commits, 33 PRs, 128 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Elijah contributed to the Kubernetes Dashboard web UI, primarily focusing on frontend and backend improvements. They fixed bugs in the CPU allocation chart and implemented features related to log display, including auto-scrolling and following, and adding tooltips. Furthermore, the user added functionality to manage CRDs including object listing, detail views, and event display. These contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of both frontend and backend development within the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Open Collective's API. A GraphQL API powered by Sequelize and PostgreSQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:72 commits, 8 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Elijah primarily focused on updating and refactoring the Open Collective API codebase. Their contributions involved upgrading the `json2csv` library and fixing argument-related issues. They modified scripts related to data exports, including scripts for calculating new backers and moving subscriptions, integrating with and utilizing the `json2csv` library extensively. Additionally, they made updates to the database schema through migrations and corrected parameter ordering.
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