Oluwafemi Akomolafe
Research Assistant at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolOluwafemi Akomolafe is a research-focused software engineer and PhD candidate in Biophysics & Soft Matter at UMass Amherst, blending eight years of hands-on engineering with experimental soft matter research. His career spans full-stack product delivery—building fintech apps and rewards integrations—to academic work on liquid crystal elastomers, showing rare fluency across production systems and lab-based physics. He has designed and maintained payment and rewards servers, led bank website projects, and built a savings app with tiered user packages, demonstrating pragmatic product thinking. At The University of Memphis he combined teaching with graduate research, underscoring his ability to communicate complex ideas and mentor others. Based in Amherst, he pursues novelty at the intersection of programming and science, pairing code-first implementation skills with a researcher’s curiosity for new phenomena. Colleagues can expect someone who moves seamlessly between production code, data analysis, and soft-matter experiments.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics & Soft matter, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics & Soft matter at University of Massachusetts AmherstMaster's degree, Physics and Materials Science, Master's degree, Physics and Materials Science at The University of MemphisB.Sc, Engineering Physics, B.Sc, Engineering Physics at Obafemi Awolowo UniversityS.S.C.E, S.S.C.E at Ijebu-ode Grammers school ijebu-ode, ogun states
Yoruba, English
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Github Skills (13)
authentication2
vue2
twitter2
api2
css2
visual-studio-code1
graphql1
vscode1
graphql-api1
javascript1
visual-studio1
bus1
vscode-extension1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
femicodes/blog-api
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 26 PRs, 16 pushes in 13 days
femicodes/shopping-api
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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