Malcolm Akinje
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMalcolm Akinje is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems, infrastructure automation, and database reliability, currently at Airbnb after a high-impact tenure at Slack. He led automation to horizontally scale an 11k-instance MySQL deployment—cutting a longest-running schema change from seven days to three hours—and built a one-click scaling workflow using Go and AWS Step Functions. Comfortable across Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm/Terragrunt, and cloud-native tooling, he has migrated tier‑0 services to Kubernetes and explored alternative storage engines for stateful workloads. His background includes contributions to Vitess and a personal WebRTC project, reflecting a mix of production-scale engineering and hands-on experimentation. Notably, he transitioned from an intern who boosted concurrent schema-change capacity by 2200% to the domain expert running quarterly roadmaps and mentoring engineers. Based in Houston, he also consults on EKS, Terraform, and CI for an NFT project, showing breadth beyond core platform responsibilities.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Groton SchoolEngineer’s Degree Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree Computer Science at Tufts University
Github Skills (61)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
data-center10
mysql10
yandex10
ftp10
plugin10
consul10
go10
service-discovery10
api-gateway10
ethereum10
vault10
blockchain10
database-cluster10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
makinje16/AirSignals
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
AirSignals is a basic signaling server using Golangs Gin-Gonic and Gorilla
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 7 months
golanggingin-gonicgonicserver
Aero-Arc/aero-arc-relay
Oct 2025 - Jul 2026
Real-time telemetry gateway for Aero Arc. Authenticating Agent streams, applying backpressure, normalizing MAVLink data for InfluxDB, and reporting fleet presence to the Registry over gRPC.
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 16 PRs in 8 months
backpressuregrpcinfluxdbmavlinktelemetry
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