Tope Folorunso
Instrumentation And Control Engineer
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolTope Folorunso is an Instrumentation and Control Engineer and backend-focused data engineer with five years’ experience bridging energy-sector projects and open-source software. Based in Lagos, he combines hands-on engineering roles at Seplat Energy and Matrix Energy with active contributions to prominent open-source projects like Airbyte and MindsDB, where he migrated connectors to a low-code YAML framework and extended database integrations. He has a chemical engineering background and proven impact delivering cost and performance gains in data pipelines, including a 94% cloud storage reduction at a previous employer. Known for translating complex integration problems into maintainable solutions, he brings practical energy-industry rigor to building scalable data integrations and ETL/ELT workflows.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
West African Senior School Certificate Science, West African Senior School Certificate Science at Ota Total AcademyBachelor of Science - BS Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Chemical Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo UniversityData Engineer with Python, Data Engineer with Python at DataCamp
English, Yoruba, French, German
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Github Skills (18)
python10
data-engineering10
databases10
sql10
yaml10
data-integration10
sql-database10
database10
api-design9
apim9
api9
javas8
etl8
java8
dockers7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
airbytehq/airbyte
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Integration Engineer
Back-end Developer & Integration EngineerContributions:50 reviews, 152 PRs, 421 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Tope's commits primarily focus on migrating existing source connectors within the Airbyte platform to a low-code framework. These migrations involve refactoring source connectors to utilize declarative YAML configurations. The user also added a new Destination (Chroma vector database), indicating a focus on building new integrations. Their work demonstrates experience in developing and integrating with data platforms.
operationpythondataintegration-platformdata-warehouse
mindsdb/mindsdb
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
AGI's query engine - Platform for building AI that can learn and answer questions over federated data.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 PRs, 7 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Tope primarily contributed to the implementation of database integration handlers. They developed a handler for the Apache Derby database, including connection management, query execution, and table/column retrieval. Furthermore, they added handlers for Altibase and EdgelessDB, showcasing their ability to work with different database systems and integrate them into the MindsDB platform. Their work focused on expanding the platform's database connectivity capabilities.
localaimachine-learning-databasesolacesinglestoreexplainable-ml
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