Olumide Ogundele
Staff Software Engineer at Ava Labs
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOlumide Ogundele is a Staff Software Engineer based in the UK with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, API-driven systems and leading engineering teams. He has a strong track record in backend and infrastructure work—designing geospatial APIs at Fathom, creating Go microservices and IaC workflows, and now leading lifecycle management for Layer 1 blockchains at Ava Labs. An active open-source contributor, he has improved identity provider integrations in Pomerium and strengthened test suites and structured logging for Mattermost, reflecting a focus on secure, maintainable systems. His hands-on DevOps and SRE orientation shows in production automation using Terraform, GitOps, GCP, and Kubernetes, and he’s extended this to MLOps and blockchain infrastructure. Notably, he combines practical payment and media-processing solutions (Stripe, Google Vision) with event-sourcing experiments, demonstrating an appetite for both pragmatic product work and architectural evolution. Curious and self-directed, he blends distributed-systems theory with real-world reliability engineering to move complex projects from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraCertificate in Full Stack Web Development Software Development, Certificate in Full Stack Web Development Software Development at Free Code CampNon-relational database, Non-relational database at MongoDB UniversityBachelor of Agriculture(B.Agric) Soil Science and Land Resources Management, Bachelor of Agriculture(B.Agric) Soil Science and Land Resources Management at Obafemi Awolowo UniversityProject Management, Project Management at Novelle Center, LagosComputer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Cisco Networking Academy (NIIT)
English, Yoruba, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
reverse-proxy10
github10
apidoc10
identity10
testing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
distributed-systems10
security10
mattermost10
testify10
gitlab10
go10
api10
rust10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pomerium/pomerium
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Pomerium is an identity and context-aware access proxy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 67 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Olumide implemented and enhanced identity provider integrations for Pomerium, a zero-trust proxy. Their work focused on adding support for GitLab and GitHub, including implementing OAuth flows, user authentication, and group retrieval. They also addressed related issues, such as changing the unique identifier for GitLab groups from name to ID and updating the GitLab API scope. Furthermore, the user refactored revoke methods and improved the handling of sessions.
proxyreverse-proxyiambeyondcorpidentity
mattermost/mattermost
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 12 PRs, 77 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Olumide primarily contributed to the migration of existing tests to use the `testify` testing framework. This involved replacing calls to `t.Fatal` with `require` assertions, improving the robustness and maintainability of the test suite. The commits also refactored code to use structured logging. Additionally, the user implemented helper functions to create plugin asset URLs.
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