Summary
James Olinya is a pragmatic engineering leader and Senior Software/AI Engineer with 8 years of experience delivering scalable web, mobile, and cloud products across fintech, Web3, and AI. He has repeatedly taken products from architecture to production—launching a full suite in 7 months at Sana, migrating monoliths to microservices with 250% performance gains, and building NFT off-chain tracking that processed 100k+ blockchain transactions. Hands-on in JavaScript, Node.js, React Native, Python and AWS, he blends coding (7k+ LOC at Sana) with people leadership, mentoring engineers and hiring cross-functional teams. His work balances product impact and developer experience, demonstrated by driving 75% user adoption improvements and helping platforms process half a million CAD in transactions. Based in Birmingham with an MSc in AI, he’s equally comfortable iterating on ML-enabled features and shaping long-term architecture—often choosing pragmatic, test-driven solutions that cut bugs and accelerate delivery.
8 years of coding experience