Summary
Emmanuel Awotunde is a seasoned backend engineer with 9 years' experience building and scaling high-availability systems across fintech and talent platforms, currently contributing at Adyen from the Netherlands. He has repeatedly improved reliability and delivery — driving API uptime to 99.99%, introducing CI/CD and automated AWS provisioning, and leading a fintech team that grew users from 2,000 to over 30,000 in months. Comfortable with microservices, GraphQL federation, Kubernetes and Docker, he blends architecture-level thinking with hands-on implementation. A collaborative leader and mentor, he boosts team bus factors through pair programming and documentation while helping others via mock interviews and portfolio reviews. Outside work he co-hosts a tech podcast and contributes to open source, reflecting a curiosity for community and knowledge-sharing beyond day-to-day engineering.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First-class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First-class Honours at Covenant University