Olaide Agboola
Senior Software Engineer at Shara
Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolOlaide Agboola is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and fintech systems across startups and established companies, currently driving engineering work at Shara in Lagos. He combines backend expertise (Node.js, NestJS, AdonisJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL) with front-end experience (React) and cloud platforms (AWS, SQS, Google Scheduler) to deliver production features like direct-debit integrations, CRMs, and bulk notification systems. Olaide has a strong track record in team leadership and mentoring—from Technical Team Lead roles at Andela to leading small engineering teams at ShipStation—focusing on code quality, pair programming, and process improvements. He has repeatedly modernized architectures through microservices, containerization and message queues, and is comfortable shipping GraphQL APIs and TDD-driven services. Pragmatic and product-focused, he tends to translate complex business needs into reliable engineering solutions that improve operational metrics such as loan collection and application review time. Based in Lagos and grounded in a Computer Science degree from Covenant University, he’s continually seeking technically challenging roles that accelerate both product impact and his professional growth.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Covenant University
Github Skills (31)
nodejs6
recipe6
react5
dataloader5
gift5
typescript5
beam5
postgresql4
orm4
knockoutjs3
redbrick2
desktop2
windows2
docker2
factories2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
andela-oagboola/propertyList
May 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:110 PRs, 80 pushes, 36 branches in 4 months
oagboola/bookedUp
Sep 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:27 PRs, 19 pushes, 25 branches in 7 months
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