Funmilayo Olaiya
Founding Product Engineer at Fernsology
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolFunmilayo Olaiya is a founding product engineer and MMath computer scientist from the University of Waterloo with seven years of full-stack experience building web applications and shipping product-focused infrastructure. She pairs hands-on engineering with technical writing—having improved and expanded documentation for high-profile open-source projects like Hasura’s GraphQL engine—to make complex systems more accessible. As a founder and prolific tech blogger (Fernsology) she communicates engineering ideas clearly while mentoring junior developers through organizations like Code the Dream. Currently at a stealth startup, she combines AI/ML curiosity with practical product delivery and a knack for translating backend capabilities into polished user-facing features.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc Computer Science at Bowen University IwoMaster of Mathematics - MMath Computer Science, Master of Mathematics - MMath Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Yoruba
Github Skills (8)
graphql10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
documentation10
hasura10
api9
sql8
postgresql8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hasura/graphql-engine
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:54 reviews, 48 commits, 27 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Funmilayo primarily contributed to the project by updating and expanding the documentation. Their commits involved modifying various documentation files, including those related to scheduled triggers, schema examples, query filters, and API references. They added notes, clarified examples, and generally improved the clarity and completeness of the documentation across multiple areas of the project. Furthermore, the user was responsible for pluralizing names and updating documentation related to Hasura's migration features.
realtimefine-grained-access-controlgraphql-serversql-serverhaskell
feobaby/funmiolaiya.com
Nov 2021 - Jan 2025
This Repo holds the code used in developing my personal Website. :rocket:
Contributions:35 PRs, 33 pushes, 36 branches in 3 years 2 months
cssjavascriptdeveloping
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