Summary
Tolu Fakiyesi is a software and data engineer with nine years of experience building data-intensive systems and production services across finance and startups. Currently at Goldman Sachs in Global Banking and Markets, he has transitioned from data engineering roles into software engineering for electronic execution risk, bringing deep familiarity with data pipelines, AWS, Kafka, Glue/pyspark, and microservices. Previously he engineered logging and ETL infrastructure, optimized complex SQL queries on Athena, and built API services with Node.js and Python backed by MongoDB, Redis and Elasticsearch. Based in Hong Kong and trained in computer engineering, he combines a practical, hands-on approach to production-scale data problems with a continual curiosity for new tools and techniques. An observant detail: his background spans both backend service development and platform-level data curation, making him fluent in turning messy, large-scale data into reliable, auditable systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University