Subomi Oluwalana
Engineering at Convoy (YC W22)
London, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSubomi Oluwalana is an engineering leader and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure. As co-founder and CEO of Convoy (YC W22) and currently on the engineering team at Speakeasy, he blends product-focused leadership with hands-on work in DevOps, API design, and security. His open-source contributions include improving server-side performance, Prometheus metrics, and secure API key management for a cloud-native webhooks gateway, evidencing practical experience with observability and deployment automation. Previously he led technical teams at MKOBO, shipped mobile and web integrations for fintech platforms like BuyCoins and Tangerine Life, and helped teams adopt CI/CD and product analytics. Trained in computer science (University of Lagos) with a background in accounting and finance, he uniquely pairs product sensibility with engineering rigor to deliver measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PGD Computer Science, PGD Computer Science at University of LagosW22, W22 at Y CombinatorBachelor's degree Accounting and Finance, Bachelor's degree Accounting and Finance at Landmark University
Github Skills (9)
go10
prometheus10
api-design10
devops9
api-gateway9
golang9
api-security9
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
frain-dev/convoy
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
The Cloud Native Webhooks Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 releases, 420 reviews, 226 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Subomi's commits primarily focused on enhancing the server-side functionality and infrastructure of the project. They implemented Prometheus metrics, fixed Go linting issues, and refactored code for better performance. The user also introduced improvements to the build and deployment scripts, indicating involvement in the DevOps aspects of the project. Furthermore, the user made changes related to API key management and signature verification, contributing to the security of the system.
golangeventsproxyconvoyincoming-webhooks
kehers/paystack
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Nodejs API wrapper for Paystack
Contributions:35 commits, 16 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year
apiapi-wrappernetsuitenodejspaystack
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