Summary
Michael Owonibi is a data engineer with nine years of experience building and operationalising data solutions across academia and industry, currently driving data initiatives at Meta from Milton Keynes. His career spans research data management and teaching roles through to applied analytics and engineering positions at eLife Sciences, Sentec, and prior research institutions, blending rigorous scientific training with production-grade pipelines. He holds a PhD and an MSc, giving him deep domain knowledge in research workflows and the ability to translate complex data requirements into scalable architectures. Known for bridging academia and industry, he brings a researcher’s attention to provenance and reproducibility to large-scale engineering challenges. Colleagues rely on him for turning messy, research-originated datasets into reliable, auditable data products that serve analytics and product teams alike.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at Cranfield University
PhD, PhD at Jacobs University Bremen
BTech, BTech at Federal University of Technology Minna
English, German