Michael Okoko
Co-Founder Software Engineer at Bayse Markets (formerly Gowagr)
Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Okoko is a Co-Founder and software engineer with a decade of experience building observability, infrastructure, and low-level systems, currently based in Osun State, Nigeria. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—contributing to prominent open-source projects like MariaDB and Percona PMM—with startup leadership at Bayse Markets. His technical focus spans Go, databases, telemetry and backups, and he has shipped features such as JSON histogram support for MariaDB and MongoDB backup integrations for PMM. Michael has repeatedly improved system reliability and observability in production (e.g., SQS/SNS notification services and Prometheus exporters) and routinely participates in on-call rotations and community triage. He pairs a strong systems mindset with practical tooling experience (including FPGAs and cloud-native stacks), making him effective at turning complex infrastructure challenges into measurable product improvements.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science with Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science with Mathematics at Obafemi Awolowo University
Github Skills (27)
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mariadb10
cicd10
mongodb-database10
backup10
go10
sql10
database-management10
re-store10
mongodb10
relational-databases10
admin9
c-language9
apidoc9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
percona/pmm
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:695 reviews, 94 commits, 137 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the `pmm` repository by implementing features, refactoring code, and improving the build process. A significant portion of the user's work focused on adding new functionalities related to MongoDB physical backups and integrating them with the PMM system. The user also made substantial changes in the area of CI/CD, updating field names, fixing nginx configurations, and upgrading grpc-gateway. These efforts reflect a dual role encompassing both backend development and DevOps responsibilities.
databasemonitoringobservabilityperconapmm
MariaDB/server
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 81 commits, 8 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the MariaDB server, focusing on enhancing database statistics and JSON handling. Their work involved modifying SQL scripts and core database code to accommodate JSON data types within the statistics framework. Key contributions include the implementation of a JSON histogram builder, fixing parsing issues, and improving the range and point selectivity for JSON histograms, and optimizing the functionality of the MariaDB server.
mariadbmysqlmysql-serversql-serveramazon-web-services
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