Tolu Abayomi

ENGINEERING LEAD - PRODUCT AND PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT
New York, NY
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linkedin.com/in/tolu-a
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tolu@digitalsketchpad.com
Software engineering leader with 15+ years of hands on full-stack experience building, modernizing, and scaling SaaS, healthcare, fintech, e-commerce, and media products, including 0-to-1 implementations. Experience working with business stakeholders to translate roadmaps into priorities, leading engineers, mentoring teams, improving system availability and supporting products used by thousands to millions of users.
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Skills

  • Python,
  • Django,
  • PostgreSQL,
  • Node.js,
  • TypeScript,
  • JavaScript,
  • Vue.js,
  • React,
  • Next.js,
  • Express,
  • Hapi.js,
  • Ruby on Rails,
  • PHP,
  • HTML,
  • CSS,
  • Sass,
  • Google Cloud,
  • Docker,
  • CI/CD,
  • DevOps,
  • API Design,
  • Microservices,
  • Analytics,
  • A/B Testing
  • AI-Assisted Development

Work Experience

Diversity Abroad, LLC

Lead Engineer
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Jun 2023 - Current

SaaS Platform for Education - Multi-tenant Content, Asset and Course Management system integrating strong permissions, analytics and admin features.

  • Led the architecture, design and implementation of the full-stack platform from the bottom up (0-to-1), to support thousands of users
  • Collaborated with the business and product team to prioritize and interpret product roadmap into technical specifications for higher on-time delivery
  • Interviewed, managed and mentored cross-functional team of developers and designers to implement features
  • Applied AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate prototyping, code optimization, and testing
  • Owned platform operations, including server provisioning, CI/CD improvements, and ongoing scalability and availability work

Gennev

Lead Engineer
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May 2021 - May 2023

Telemedicine Platform for Virtual Healthcare Company - Series A Startup

  • Led an engineering team responsible for feature delivery and third-party integrations across a virtual care platform
  • Simplified an overly complex application architecture, improving availability by more than 50% while reducing friction for feature development and bug resolution
  • Partnered with product, CEO, CTO, and growth stakeholders on KPI-driven planning, analytics, and roadmap decisions
  • Designed data analytics and warehousing workflows that integrated external services into the product ecosystem
  • Managed CI/CD and infrastructure across Google Cloud, Docker-based environments, and virtual machines while improving onboarding and interview processes for new engineers

Presence Product Group - Makena Investor Portal

Lead Developer
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Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
  • Fintech application - Helped modernize reporting workflows by delivering an investor portal that replaced previous analog processes
  • Partnered with design to implement a more resilient and responsive front-end architecture using modern component patterns
  • Streamlined UI components to improve reuse, portability, and delivery speed
  • Built front-end integrations and server-side APIs to support core application functionality
  • Contributed across the stack in Node.js and React to support product delivery

Digital Sketchpad, LLC

Consultant
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Aug 2017 - Sep 2019

Consulting on numerous products across numerous verticals including education, e-commerce and construction. - Worked with business owners, technical and product teams to plan, design and implement product specifications and requirements.

  • Full-stack development of product starting from in-depth review of existing products and websites to analyze and surface existing problems
  • Provided architectural design and code for improvements and upgrades working with business teams to execute on time and budget
  • Tasks included DevOps - provisioning of servers, creation of a 3-tier dev environments and continuous integration processes
  • Planning for hand-off and long-term support by in-house teams

BigCommerce, Inc

Senior Software Engineer
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Dec 2016 - Jan 2018

E-commerce SaaS Platform

  • Built customer-facing e-commerce features and backend microservices on a large SaaS platform supporting hundreds of thousands of users
  • Partnered with design, product, and marketing to deliver storefront UI and front-end functionality
  • Implemented APIs and microservices supporting federated authentication and API gateway workflows
  • Participated in client-facing technical support efforts to improve debugging, diagnosis, understanding of the customer experience
  • Helped improve feature outcomes by bridging engineering and design collaboration

Vimeo, LLC

Senior Application Engineer
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May 2013 - Sep 2016

Worked both independently and with a cross functional team of product and project managers to create, update and maintain features of numerous applications across various aspects of the website including crafting both front end and back end code.

  • Built and maintained front-end and back-end features across multiple product areas on a platform used by millions of users each month
  • Lead architect of new more modular, updated component structure to enable code reuse and easier onboarding of new engineers
  • Applied A/B testing, analytics, and data-driven product development methodologies
  • Development and maintenance of internal applications used by engineering and design team
  • Hiring, onboarding of junior engineers
  • Career guidance and mentoring of direct reports

Education

City College of New York, NY.

B.S., Computer Science (cum laude)
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Sep 2007 - May 2010