Sodiq Fagbola
Engineering Manager at Yelp
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSodiq Fagbola is an engineering manager with eight years of experience building and leading teams that deliver resilient, scalable systems across fintech and mobility platforms. Currently at Yelp, he translates complex product roadmaps into actionable engineering projects while balancing stakeholder strategy and hands-on delivery. His background spans core banking integrations, secure API and microservice design, and DevOps automation—skills honed at SystemSpecs, Fidelity Bank, and Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems. At FREE NOW he led a cross-functional team to design a multi-mobility platform, combining active coding, code review and people development to accelerate quality and throughput. Comfortable operating across product, architecture and delivery, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset that cuts costs and reduces production risk. Based in Ontario, Canada, Sodiq pairs technical depth in Java/Spring and cloud-native practices with a consistent focus on mentoring and operational excellence.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of IlorinMasters in Information System Management(ISM), Computer Science, Masters in Information System Management(ISM), Computer Science at University of Roehampton
English, Yoruba, German
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Github Skills (62)
bank10
spring-api10
spring-mvc9
open-banking9
search-api9
spring-data-jpa9
banking9
api8
spring-boot8
java7
facebook-login7
spring7
react-native-library6
php6
payment6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
magrifle/search-api
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
A library that helps you instantly turn your spring API to a query engine
Contributions:6 reviews, 110 commits, 15 PRs in 4 years 4 months
spring-bootapiqueryquery-enginespring-mvc
openbankingnigeria/api
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
The Open Banking Nigeria is a way to bring a standard banking system in Nigeria, for which any bank can follow to make life easier for all players in the ecosystem.
Contributions:32 commits, 8 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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