Summary
Tomiwa Ijaware is a Staff Engineer with 15 years’ experience building resilient, cloud-native systems and digital banking products, currently driving engineering at Personio after roles at Meta and McKinsey. He blends hands-on expertise in Kotlin, Java, Swift and Python with system design across Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis and Postgres to deliver highly available microservices and mobile platforms. Tomiwa has led and coordinated cross-functional teams of 40+ engineers, launched seven MVPs serving over 14 million customers, and cut fault-tolerance validation costs by 90% through pragmatic automation. A certified AWS Solutions Architect and Azure Developer, he also architects continuous delivery pipelines and champions well-architected practices. Outside core delivery he mentors emerging engineers, organizes Google Developer Group events, and keeps his craft sharp—writing code on weekdays and practicing software engineering on weekends.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Second Class Upper Division (Hons), Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Second Class Upper Division (Hons) at Federal University of Technology Akure
Nanodegree, Machine Learning, Nanodegree, Machine Learning at Udacity
English, Yoruba