Peter Olayinka
Lead Backend Engineer at Search Atlas
Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Olayinka is a Lead Backend Engineer with a decade of software experience and a proven track record building reliable web applications and internal tools across startups and scale-ups. He has advanced from implementation and triage roles to leading backend development at Search Atlas, consistently improving system stability, test coverage, and customer-facing dashboards. Skilled in backend APIs, automation, and debugging, he has reduced manual processes and lead times via custom tooling and integrations. Peter blends hands-on coding with product-oriented thinking—shipping analytics, availability scheduling features, and approval workflows that directly improved operational efficiency. Based in Nigeria with a Computer Science degree from Ekiti State University, he pairs strong communication and team leadership with a knack for rapid-learning and practical problem solving. An understated strength is his history of building internal developer tooling and integrations that accelerated company-wide delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Ekiti State University
English, Yoruba
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
rest-framework10
django-rest10
django9
django-rest-framework9
django-blog8
nodejs7
rest7
djangocon7
python7
nested6
django-views6
react6
django-models6
rally6
django-project6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
peterolayinka/django-rest-passwordreset
Nov 2019 - Jun 2024
An extension of django rest framework, providing a configurable password reset strategy either by user email or phone number
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 7 months
pythonconfigurablephonephone-numberdjango-rest-framework
peterolayinka/django-excel-docmunet-extract-api
Jul 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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