Tobi Ogunbiyi
Director Of Engineering at Clio
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTobi Ogunbiyi is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Clio and previously scaling Payfare’s engineering org from 15 to 50+ engineers across Canada, South America, and India. He combines hands-on backend expertise (notably in Ruby/Rails systems and large-scale request handling) with a strong track record of improving reliability and hiring remote-first teams to deliver fintech and payments products like the Uber Pro Card program. A pragmatic builder and coach, he has implemented uptime roadmaps, career matrices, and hiring processes that materially improved retention and operational stability. Beyond product delivery, he co-founded BlackMINT to mentor and create pathways for Black students into tech, reflecting a commitment to diversity and community impact. Early contributions to projects like MarkUs show he still engages with code-level maintenance and refactoring, balancing strategic leadership with practical engineering.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (Hons.) with Distinction Computer Science, B.Sc. (Hons.) with Distinction Computer Science at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (8)
ruby-rails10
rails10
refactoring10
ruby10
mvc-architecture9
debug9
debugging9
database-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MarkUsProject/Markus
Feb 2011 - Mar 2012
Git repository of MarkUs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Tobi primarily focused on fixing bugs and refactoring existing code within the MarkUs project. They reverted a change related to assignment setup, fixed a bug in the overall comment section, and removed deprecated or duplicated code. Their contributions also included the removal of get functions in user.rb and removing some duplicated code in the main_controller.rb file.
git-repositorymarkdownmarkus
tobioboye/proxysql
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
gpl-licensemysqlproxygplperformance
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