Sunday Adefila
Staff, Software Engineer at Terminal
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSunday Adefila is a Staff Software Engineer based in Waterloo, Ontario with 11 years of experience building reliable, test-driven web applications and integrations. He leads technical decisions, authors architecture and design docs, and mentors teams while shipping production-safe features and observability dashboards. His hands-on background spans client-facing product work at Terminal and earlier placements through Andela, where he supported clients like Transfix, IBM, and Off.Grid:Electric. A pragmatic contributor to open source, he boosted test coverage to 100% for key models and admin controllers in the Helpy helpdesk project, demonstrating a bias for quality and maintainability. Trained as an Electrical and Electronics engineer, he combines systems thinking with software craftsmanship and a taste for adventurous, continuous learning. Colleagues rely on him to balance trade-offs between speed, reliability, and long-term architectural health.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of IlorinCertificate in IT, Information Technology, Certificate in IT, Information Technology at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
English
Stackoverflow
4,134reputation
227kreached
125answers
62questions
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (21)
ruby-rails10
testing10
rails10
ruby10
test-driven-design9
ruby-on-rails9
github7
ticket-system6
html6
rake6
simpleform6
su6
sup6
bootstrap-modal6
knowledge-graph6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
helpyio/helpy
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Helpy is a modern, open source helpdesk customer support application. Features include knowledgebase, community discussions and support tickets integrated with email.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sunday focused on enhancing the test coverage for the `helpyio/helpy` repository. They added and refactored tests for models like `Topic` and `User`, bringing their respective test coverages to 100%. Moreover, the user expanded testing to the `Admin::CategoriesController`, ensuring comprehensive testing of the admin interface. These actions reflect a commitment to improve the code's quality and reliability by increasing test coverage.
integratedsupport-ticketsforumemailknowledge-base
tedxyaba/tedxyaba
Apr 2020 - Jul 2023
This powers https://github.com/tedxyaba/tedxyaba-web
Contributions:16 PRs, 48 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years 3 months
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