Tobi Akanji is a Lead Engineer and Cloud Site Reliability specialist with a decade of hands-on experience building resilient fintech systems using AWS, Kubernetes, and modern backend stacks. At OnePipe he progressed from customer-facing integration roles to leading SRE and engineering efforts for Open Banking, card payments, and credit financing platforms, blending operational rigor with developer empathy. He pairs proficiency in Laravel, React, PHP and Java with multi-cloud experience across AWS, Azure and GCP to deliver cost-effective, highly available services. Known for turning incident metrics into lasting reliability improvements, he also brings an electrical engineering background and early technical leadership experience that sharpen his systems thinking. Based in Nottingham, he’s equally comfortable shipping backend APIs and optimizing cloud infrastructure to meet strict SLOs.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Ahmadu Bello University
Master's degree, Master's degree at Federal University of Technology Minna
Contributions:115 PRs, 110 pushes, 90 branches in 3 months
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