Olubukola Makinwa
Senior Software Engineer II at Contentful
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolOlubukola Makinwa is a Senior Software Engineer II in Berlin with 11 years of experience who transitioned from full-stack development to focus on backend engineering and PostgreSQL support akin to an application DBA. At Contentful he has driven backend improvements and contributed to notable open-source work on contentful.js, enhancing type safety, error handling, and request robustness. He combines hands-on coding in JavaScript and Ruby with people leadership—mentoring engineers, leading technical teams, and running apprenticeship programs at Andela. A former technical trainer and team lead, he has a track record of designing learning programs and delivering measurable developer growth. He holds a first-class BSc in Computer Science and is passionate about the science of learning, believing that complex skills can be taught systematically. Outside day-to-day engineering, he quietly improves developer experience and testing discipline, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and coaching.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
St. Judes Private Secondary SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st class, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st class at Babcock University
English, French, Spanish, Yoruba
Github Skills (10)
contentful10
error-handling10
javascript10
testing9
apidoc9
sdk9
api9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
contentful/contentful.js
Jun 2019 - Sep 2021
JavaScript library for Contentful's Delivery API (node & browser)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 20 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Olubukola contributed to the JavaScript library for Contentful's Delivery API by implementing type updates, logging improvements, and error handling enhancements. They addressed missing request header values and improved error responses, contributing to the robustness of the library. Additionally, the user fixed an issue related to undefined entry IDs and improved tests for entries.
contentfulapijavascript-librarybrowserjavascript
makinwab/Aires
Mar 2016 - May 2019
Replicar las funcionalidades de Airbnb
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 2 months
airbnbfuncionalidadeslas
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