Summary
Tolu Akande is a Senior Software Engineer based in the UK with a track record of building scalable, high-performance full-stack systems for enterprise clients and consumer platforms. He has led end-to-end delivery of AI-powered dashboards and plug-and-play agents that served millions of users and boosted e-commerce conversion by 70%, while architecting multi-tenant data spaces and microservices with GraphQL, TypeScript, Python, and PostgreSQL. Tolu combines performance engineering—introducing Redis caching and event-driven Kafka pipelines—with strong security practices like OAuth2 and RBAC to support high-volume, compliant systems. He’s cut integration and release times dramatically through developer-friendly APIs, CI/CD automation, and reusable UI component libraries, and regularly mentors teams on DDD and TDD. Unusually for a senior engineer, his background in physiology and early work as a content creator and coding tutor give him a user-centric, pedagogical approach to product design and developer experience.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Abuja
Physiology, Human Physiology, Physiology, Human Physiology at University of Ibadan