Yele Bonilla
Director Software Engineering at Warner Music Group
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolYele Bonilla is a Director of Software Engineering with 12 years of experience leading high-performance teams and building resilient, data-driven systems across media and retail platforms. Currently at Warner Music Group after scaling Catalog engineering at Instacart—where he managed systems that processed billions of items and solved data lineage and throughput challenges—he blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical insight. He has deep experience in microservices, Python-backed APIs, containerization, and data quality automation, and has repeatedly turned operational complexity into self-healing, scalable services. Yele excels at building engineering culture—hiring, coaching, and institutionalizing best practices—to convert cross-functional collaboration into measurable product impact. His background spans startups to large enterprises, grounded by graduate studies in applied computing at the University of Toronto and early analytics work that shaped his data-first approach. Notably, he moves fluidly between people leadership and technical execution, often splitting time between hands-on development and strategic program delivery.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Applied Computing, Master of Science Applied Computing at University of TorontoBachelors of Computer Science Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Bachelors of Computer Science Mathematics and Computer Science Department at University of Havana
English, SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
sideeffects/stats_houdini
Aug 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:147 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
sideeffects/stats_core
Aug 2013 - Apr 2015
Core infrastructure for collecting statistics data and generating reports
Contributions:155 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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