Tola Awofolu
AI Specialist Solution Architect at Your Village Math Tutor
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTola Awofolu is an AI specialist and solution architect with a software engineering foundation and a data science/ML pedigree, bringing over 20 years of hands-on full‑stack development and architectural leadership to enterprise AI modernization. He has spent more than a decade as team lead, principal architect, and primary developer across public and private sectors, translating complex business needs into scalable ML and data platforms. His recent roles at Red Hat, Broadcom, and VMware reflect deep experience in data/ML platform architecture and productionizing models at scale. Tola also blends entrepreneurship with technical mentorship as the founder of an education startup since 2011, demonstrating a commitment to practical impact and talent development. He holds advanced degrees in computer science and data science from Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania, pairing rigorous academics with production-first engineering. Less obvious: he moves fluidly between hands-on engineering and strategic CTO-level advising, making him as comfortable writing model pipelines as defining enterprise AI roadmaps.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Magna cum laude, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Magna cum laude at St. Mary's College of MarylandJohns Hopkins UniversityMaster of Science, Data Science, Master of Science, Data Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (62)
charts10
vmware10
knn10
lifecycle9
kubernetes9
apache-spark9
classification9
bitnami9
machine-learning9
model-management9
dvc9
incremental-learning9
helm9
ai9
regression9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
agapebondservant/ml-image-processing-app
Jan 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:694 pushes, 17 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 7 months
agapebondservant/data-e2e-demo-app
Apr 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:132 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.