Mayowa Pitan
Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolMayowa Pitan is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of full‑stack experience building scalable Rails and JavaScript/React systems from Nigeria. He currently drives GitHub Discussions, blending product-minded feature design with large-scale infrastructure work—Redis, Elasticsearch, and OpenAI embeddings—for improved developer discoverability. His background spans startups and enterprise teams where he shipped AI-powered media pipelines, subscription billing, and high-throughput APIs while improving test coverage and CI/CD practices. Comfortable across backend, frontend, and infra, he has a track record of mentoring engineers and raising code quality at rapid pace. Unusually for a software engineer, he began his career in mechanical engineering, which informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at University of Ibadan
English, Yoruba
Github Skills (55)
javascript10
css10
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
nodejs10
ruby-on-rails10
sublime-text9
web-development9
llm7
github-integration7
purejs7
docker-desktop7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
andela-mpitan/fly_me
Mar 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:18 PRs, 71 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 5 months
flightcheckpointbooking-app
VanPaitin/attendance-records
Dec 2019 - Jun 2026
This is a software for taking records of services attendance. This will enable us to generate reports occasionally to see how we are faring
Contributions:17 PRs, 64 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 6 months
djangoreportspythonrecords
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