Tunmise Akinade is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with nine years of experience designing and scaling fintech and marketplace systems across Africa. He has led teams and shipped high-throughput platforms—helping a social investment app reach over 7 million users and processing 30M+ monthly API requests—while also building payment and subscription orchestration that handles millions of monthly beneficiaries. Tunmise blends backend performance tuning (MySQL/Postgres, Typesense optimizations, geo queries) with pragmatic product features like one-click checkout, multi-currency wallets, and rapid city rollout automations that enabled cross-country expansion. He’s comfortable across the stack and cloud—automating CI/CD, Lambdas, SQS/RabbitMQ workflows, and AWS deployments—to keep systems reliable under scale. Known for operational ownership and mentoring through regular code reviews, he couples hands-on implementation with architecture and process improvements. Based in Nigeria, he pairs strong delivery velocity with an eye for localization details (i18n, timezones) that materially drive product growth.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Second Class Upper, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Second Class Upper at Federal University of Technology Akure
WASSCE, WASSCE at Wakajaye Community High School, Ibadan
A real time system for monitoring out of school children in Nigeria and also for curbing this situation and getting them all back to school. This is built with Nodejs and Mongo DB
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
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