Solar Olugebefola
Product Manager, New User Experience at TigerData (creators of TimescaleDB)
Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolSolar Olugebefola is a product-minded engineering leader with 11 years of experience bridging front-end development and product for developer-focused data platforms. Currently shaping new user experience at TigerData (TimescaleDB creators), he moved into product after progressing from front-end engineer roles where he helped evolve Timescale’s web UX. His background is unusually interdisciplinary: a PhD in Materials Science from MIT and postdoctoral research in autonomous materials give him a systems-level approach to complex problem solving and experimental rigor. He also retrained in web development at App Academy, combining research discipline with modern full-stack practice. Based in Georgia, Solar excels at turning technical complexity into clear, usable onboarding and product flows for developer audiences. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs deep technical empathy with a data-driven, research-infused product sensibility.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High school degree, High school degree at Hunter College High SchoolPh.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWeb development, Web development at App Academy
English
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Github Skills (160)
jquery-plugin10
timeseries-database10
parser10
dashboard10
postgresql10
highlight10
grafana10
commonmark10
apollo-client10
postgresql-extension10
highlighting10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
monitoring10
markdown10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
solugebefola/PennyRoyal
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:114 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
timescale/docs.timescale.com-content
Mar 2017 - Feb 2021
Content pages for TimescaleDB documentation
Contributions:93 reviews, 615 commits, 196 PRs in 4 years
databasetimescaledb
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