diekolaayomide1@gmail.com

Software Engineer

Ayomide Diekola

I build scalable systems, lead teams, and ship products that scale in production.

7+
Years building
20+
Products shipped
Founder
5+
Teams led

Experience

Work history

SaaS, fintech, streaming, ISP, and AI-enabled products across startups and enterprise.

SaneHQ

Founder & Lead Engineer

Remote

Lead engineering for an AI-powered work platform that brings project management, team communication, collaboration, and workflow automation into one place.

  • Architected a multi-tenant SaaS platform using React, Go, PostgreSQL, and Redis, supporting 130+ users, 200+ projects, and 1100+ tasks across web and desktop clients.
  • Designed AI-powered workflow agents that automate task planning, organization, prioritization, and routine project operations.
  • Engineered real-time collaboration, offline support, optimistic updates, and Redis-backed caching, to deliver faster interactions and reliable synchronization across collaborative workspaces.
  • Designed an event-driven processing layer using Kafka to publish workspace events and decouple notifications, activity tracking, analytics, and AI-powered automations from synchronous application requests.
  • Containerized SaneHQ services with Docker and deployed production workloads to AWS EC2, owning environment configuration, release management, and production reliability.

Breezelearn

Senior Software Engineer

Remote · Calgary, Canada

Embedded with client teams to deliver production software across transportation, logistics, and AI-enabled funding platforms.

Rose Rocket

Transportation Management System · 2+ year engagement

  • Reduced weekly production bug reports by 82% by resolving recurring failure patterns, strengthening code quality, and improving system reliability.
  • Reduced API latency by 76% by identifying database bottlenecks, restructuring queries, and introducing targeted indexing that eliminated request timeouts.
  • Owned end-to-end delivery of React, TypeScript, and Node.js platform features used by 100,000+ daily active users across 1200+ organizations, collaborating directly with engineering leaders and the CTO on requirements and technical decisions.

Thin Air Labs

Funding Catalyst & Grant Matching · current engagement

  • Led an internal engineering team of 3 to build and deploy operational tools used across 3 departments on GCP Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, and Kubernetes.
  • Led architecture and development of a client portal using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js, serving 300+ customers through secure, maintainable product workflows.
  • Built an AI-powered grant-matching system used internally to evaluate and recommend relevant funding opportunities from 6000+ grants.

Sabi Networks

Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

Remote · Lagos, Nigeria

Engineered core platform services for a wireless and fiber ISP — CRM, provisioning workflows, and network-aware operations tooling for internal teams and subscribers.

  • Designed and built a CRM and operations platform covering subscriber onboarding, billing pipelines, and end-to-end service lifecycle management.
  • Integrated backend provisioning services with customer-premises routers for real-time connectivity monitoring, usage telemetry, and fault detection.
  • Architected and scaled REST APIs and supporting infrastructure to handle subscriber growth while maintaining reliability under production load.

Technocrat

Tech Lead (Contract)

Remote · Birmingham, United Kingdom

Led a cross-functional delivery team to build and launch a production-ready fintech application.

  • Directed 10+ engineers, a product designer, and 3 QA testers across architecture, implementation, testing, and release.
  • Owned key technical decisions and remained hands-on with implementation, code reviews, and resolution of delivery blockers.
  • Established sprint plans, task breakdowns, and engineering standards to improve delivery predictability and product quality.
  • Translated stakeholder requirements into actionable technical plans and mentored engineers on code quality and system design.

Coventi

Full Stack Software Engineer (Part-time)

Remote · Lagos, Nigeria

Built core systems for a streaming-as-a-service platform, focusing on real-time interaction, payments, and streaming workflows.

  • Engineered a WebSocket-based live chat system in Next.js and Node.js, supporting 1200+ concurrent viewers with low-latency bidirectional messaging.
  • Integrated Stripe payments for one-time purchases and recurring subscriptions, processing 7500+ monthly transactions through secure checkout and account workflows.
  • Led a three-person engineering team from technical planning through production release.
  • Built reusable React and TypeScript components for streaming, billing, and account workflows.

Box5 Software

Full Stack Software Engineer (Contract)

Remote · Hamilton, Canada

Delivered payments, account management, and backend capabilities for a marching arts platform.

  • Integrated Stripe Checkout and Customer Portal, enabling self-service payments and subscription management for 500+ customers.
  • Built a responsive and secure customer dashboard in React and Next.js for account, billing, and content management.
  • Integrated AWS Cognito with Node.js APIs and Amazon RDS to provide secure authentication, authorization, and protected account workflows.
  • Worked directly with the Founder & CEO to turn business requirements into production features and deliver against launch timelines.

Technocrat

Full Stack Software Engineer

Remote · Birmingham, United Kingdom

Designed and developed enterprise applications across media monitoring, field force automation, and business intelligence.

  • Built a Go-based media-monitoring platform processing 25,000+ pages daily, reducing manual monitoring by 98% and enabling clients to track brand mentions and sentiment at scale.
  • Improved crawler throughput 15x by rewriting performance-critical backend components in Go and applying concurrency and architectural optimizations.
  • Built and deployed a Python microservice using PyTorch to perform sentiment analysis and topic classification, converting crawled media into structured brand insights.
  • Built TypeScript-based reporting and business intelligence workflows used by 700+ enterprise users.

Awarome

Co-founder & CTO

Hybrid · Abuja, Nigeria

Led the technical vision and development of a fast-growing e-commerce platform offering same-day delivery across Nigeria.

  • Co-founded Awarome, launching an e-commerce platform that processed millions of naira in transactions within the first year.
  • Led technical development of the core mobile platform using Flutter, ensuring scalability, security, and performance under growing demand.
  • Made key business and technical decisions to drive growth, improve user adoption, and align with market needs.
  • Defined and executed the product roadmap, balancing technical priorities with customer feedback to deliver high-impact features.

IIP Global

Full Stack Web Developer (Contract)

Remote · Ogun State, Nigeria

Delivered the end-to-end web platform for an ECOSOC-accredited NGO focused on democratic institutions, justice, education, and international conflict resolution.

  • Architected and built the organization's official website in PHP — a responsive, on-brand platform built to serve a global NGO audience.
  • Integrated Paystack for secure donation processing, with payment flows and safeguards designed to protect donor data and transaction integrity.
  • Built a PHP admin panel for donation management, enquiry tracking, and activity monitoring — giving the team full operational control over the platform.

Skills

Technical stack

Tools and platforms used across production systems.

Backend

  • Go
  • NestJS
  • Fastify
  • Laravel

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Redux
  • TypeScript
  • Flutter
  • Tailwind CSS

Infrastructure

  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform

Database

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • Elasticsearch

Networking

  • Radius Server
  • ISP Systems
  • Network Auth
  • SNMP

DevOps

  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • GCP
  • Datadog

Contact

Let's work together

Open to engineering roles, consulting, and product collaborations.

diekolaayomide1@gmail.com