Kofo Okesola
Senior Software Engineer at Tyk
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolKofo Okesola is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating high-throughput backend systems, primarily in Go and Laravel, and is currently open only to fully remote roles. He has led engineering and SRE efforts across startups and larger teams—designing APIs, migrating orchestration to Kubernetes, and improving CI/CD, observability and developer experience on cloud platforms. As a contributor to the popular Tyk API Gateway he enhanced GraphQL federation, improved analytics and implemented sub-request tracing, and he’s a TOP-rated Upwork freelancer with varied client work. An active community mentor and speaker (GoLagos, GopherCon Berlin), he also writes a widely read technical blog (kofo.dev), blending practical production experience with developer education.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
IU International University of Applied Sciences
Stackoverflow
557reputation
83kreached
24answers
12questions
Github Skills (20)
api-management10
wpgraphql10
go10
api-gateway10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
reverse-proxy9
go-modules9
microservices-application9
microservices9
api8
kubernetes7
kubernetes-pods7
routes6
php6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TykTechnologies/tyk
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 reviews, 35 commits, 149 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kofo primarily contributed to the Tyk API Gateway, focusing on enhancing its GraphQL capabilities and addressing related issues. Their work involved fixing bugs in core functions, updating GraphQL tools, and integrating API schema into error and success handlers to provide better analytics. They also addressed issues related to batching requests in GraphQL API federation settings and implemented a sub-request ID feature.
api-gatewaygrpcreverse-proxyapi-managementcloudnative
kofoworola/kofo
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:56 commits in 1 month
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