Korede Aderele
Software Engineer at Chime
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKorede Aderele is a Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack systems and developer infrastructure, currently based in Oakland and working at Chime. He has a strong background in backend and frontend engineering from roles at Notion, Metronome, and internships at Google and Coinbase, and contributed UI and integration improvements to the notable Darklang open-source project. Beyond product engineering he runs Surulere.dev, an editorial and archival project exploring Africa’s future through essays, visualizations, and tools, showing a blend of technical craft and humanities-minded curation. Comfortable shipping across stacks, Korede pairs infrastructure and security experience with UX-focused front-end fixes, and brings a curious maker’s streak reflected in interests like archiving, cycling, gardening and jiujitsu.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
WASSCE, WASSCE at Olashore International SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Drexel University
Yoruba, English, creoles and pidgins, english-based
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
programming-language10
autocomplete10
front-end-development10
functional-programming10
go6
google-cloud-sql6
rest6
package6
typescript6
kubernetes6
google-kubernetes-engine6
google-cloud-platform6
google-apps-script6
pulumi6
editor5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
darklang/dark
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Darklang main repo, including language, backend, and infra
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:285 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Korede primarily contributed to the Darklang project, focusing on improvements to the client-side code. Their commits involved removing unnecessary slashes in event handler names, fixing drag-and-drop issues within the UI, and enhancing the autocomplete feature, including the addition of constructor-based autocompletion. They also implemented functionality for a cron trigger button within the UI, indicating work across both frontend and backend components.
backendprogramming-languagecloudfunctional-programmingeditor
suruleredotdev/dotdev
Oct 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 72 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
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