# Osayame Gaius-Obaseki > Product and Engineering Leader - Agile Development | Data Engineering at Scale | Systems Infrastructure Location: Daly City, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/osayame A creative, empathetic, and thorough Engineering Leader with diverse experience across Advertising Analytics, Consumer Hardware, Marketing Automation, Institutional Investment Management, and Startup leadership. Driven to create enterprise software products and services well suited for mass adoption and rapid growth. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS SMS Payments Platform – Founded and grew Parrot to a $10m valuation with a 10-person team, creating a low friction means for small businesses to sell products directly to their audience using SMS Payments. Blackrock APIs – Established Blackrock’s Atlanta Engineering Center of Excellence then contributed to the development of Blackrock’s Aladdin API platform to connect Financial Institutions with Blackrock Market Data. MailChimp Websites and Payments – Led Agile Scrum Teams responsible for developing MailChimp’s Website Builder platform in 2018 and MailChimp Payments Platform in partnership with Square and Stripe in 2019. AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND TECHNOLOGY PROFILE Agile Methodology | JIRA | Kanban | RabbitMQ | ASP.NET | AngularJS | React | SQL Server | C# | Linux | C | Terminal | Software Development | Cloud Computing | Microservices | REST APIs | Database Design | Performance Optimization | Scalability | Security | Code Review | Code Refactoring | Object-Oriented Programming | Design Patterns | Data Structures | Algorithms | Test-Driven Development | Continuous Integration | Continuous Deployment | DevOps | Monitoring | Logging | Troubleshooting | Debugging | System Architecture | System Design | Distributed Systems | High Availability | Load Balancing | Message Queues | Event-Driven Architecture | Version Control | Git | Code Repositories | Team Leadership | Mentorship | Technical Project Management | Cross-Functional Collaboration | Communication | Problem-Solving | Critical Thinking | Innovation | Creativity | Continuous Learning | Venture Capital | Private Equity Fundraising | Investor Relations | Pitch Deck | Due Diligence | Growth Strategy | Revenue Model | Business Development | Talent Acquisition | Employee Retention | Leadership Development | Product Roadmap | User Experience Design | Software Development Life Cycle | Fundraising | Seed Round | Series A | Investor | Investor Relations ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Vori Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ DoorDash Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Guild Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Staff Software Engineer @ Reforge Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Built and launched Reforge AI, the first LLM-based conversational assistant designed for product managers. ### Founder & CEO @ Parrot Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Built the business from concept to $3m in annual gross revenue with 100 small businesses using Parrot SMS Payments. Achieved a $10m valuation with the seed investment round led by Harlem Capital and UpFront Ventures. • Led a Friends and Family investment round in early 2020 with a $2m valuation. Created a functional MVP with design customers, developed an actionable business plan, and hired two team members. - Established partnerships with AT&T, Verizon, Stripe, and Twilio, Shopify, and BigCommerce to enable Parrot to collect text message payments from shoppers worldwide. • Led a Seed Round, raising $2m at a $10m valuation from Harlem Capital, UpFront Ventures, and two independent investors. - Hired our Chief Technology Officer, a fractional CFO, a Staff UI Engineer, three Software Engineers, our Head of Marketing, and our customer success and sales team. - Managed the leaders of our product, engineering, and marketing Agile teams who built and released 2 revolutionary SaaS products for small businesses. After releasing our PCI-compliant SMS Payments product in 2022, we processed 4,000 orders and made $214,000 for small businesses in Q3/Q4 2022. - Led our marketing, sales and customer success teams in the U.S. and Canada to serve over 100 customers and close $3m in contracts for the 2023 fiscal year. Built a go-to-market strategy which included sponsoring eCommerce conferences and speaking on over a dozen podcasts and industry events. ### VP of Engineering @ BlackRock Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Atlanta Metropolitan Area Reporting to the Managing Director of the Aladdin Platform Engineering group. I led a three person team based in Atlanta focused on creating APIs enabling Financial Institutions to subscribe to Blackrock’s Aladdin Platform. • As Blackrock developed their engineering presence in Atlanta, responsible for building a diverse agile team of senior API Engineers that would serve as the technical and cultural foundation of the new development Center of Excellence. - Recruited, evaluated, and hired an elite team of Full Stack Software Engineers tasked with developing new Distributed System Infrastructure that enabled partners like Betterment to securely receive and send real time financial markets and risk modeling data with their machine learning based investment platforms. • Represented the organization as a keynote speaker and recruiting touchpoint at conferences (i.e. AfroTech and Gig City Elixir). ### Engineering Lead, Payments @ MailChimp Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area Reporting to an Engineering Manager in a matrixed environment, responsible for leading two Agile Scrum Teams with six team members each, distributed across the New York City, Oakland, and Atlanta. • MailChimp Commerce Platform – In partnership with the Stripe and Square Engineering teams in San Francisco, we released a low friction payments platform tailored to serve millions of Small to Mid-Size eCommerce Businesses. The product helped small businesses to securely capture credit card data and start selling online in 30 minutes. • Selected to give Keynote Addresses at CodeBEAM in Stockholm, and the LoneStar and ElixrConf in Austin, TX. ### Senior Software Engineer @ MailChimp Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Atlanta Metropolitan Area Led a four person Agile Scrum Team, responsible for building the MailChimp Website Builder using Go, PHP, React, JavaScript, and Kubernetes. • With speed to market as a critical measure of success, the Scrum Team created Distributed Virtual Machines and Continuous Integration Techniques in less than four months, enabling MailChimp Websites to run on the existing server infrastructure. This approach reduced the time to market introduction by 12 months. • MailChimp Websites achieved 100k users in 3 weeks and was Product Hunt’s Product of the Week. AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND TECHNOLOGY PROFILE Agile Methodology | JIRA | Kanban | RabbitMQ | ASP.NET | AngularJS | React | SQL Server | C# | Linux | C | Terminal | Software Development | Cloud Computing | Microservices | REST APIs | Database Design | Performance Optimization | Scalability | Security | Code Review | Code Refactoring | Object-Oriented Programming | Design Patterns | Data Structures | Algorithms | Test-Driven Development | Continuous Integration | Continuous Deployment | DevOps | Monitoring | Logging | Troubleshooting | Debugging | System Architecture | System Design | Distributed Systems | High Availability | Load Balancing | Message Queues | Event-Driven Architecture | Version Control | Git | Code Repositories | Team Leadership | Mentorship | Technical Project Management | Cross-Functional Collaboration | Communication | Problem-Solving | Critical Thinking | Innovation | Creativity | Continuous Learning | Venture Capital | Private Equity Fundraising | Investor Relations | Pitch Deck | Due Diligence | Growth Strategy | Revenue Model | Business Development | Talent Acquisition | Employee Retention | Leadership Development | Product Roadmap | User Experience Design | Software Development Life Cycle | Fundraising | Seed Round | Series A | Investor | Investor Relations ### Senior Software Engineer @ Luma. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Atlanta Area Reporting to the Head of Engineering, I led two Agile Scrum teams focused on building and scaling our over-the-air-update (OTA) system and our customer support tools used by over 30 reps. • OTA Nightly Update Platform – Led a three-member Agile Scrum Team through developing Luma’s OTA Nightly Update Platform designed to ping each of the 100k active devices across the world, verify the firmware version for each device, and push out firmware updates overnight for all devices where necessary. - Developed the platform with an Elixir/Python based Cloud Native Architecture hosted on Amazon Web Services. - Achieved and maintained a 97% current firmware across the 100k device install base. • Support Dashboard – Led the second Agile Scrum Team to develop a Customer Support Dashboard, written in React and Elixir, designed to enable the customer supports team to conduct system triage, log tickets, and run reports. AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND TECHNOLOGY PROFILE Agile Methodology | JIRA | Kanban | RabbitMQ | ASP.NET | AngularJS | React | SQL Server | C# | Linux | C | Terminal | Software Development | Cloud Computing | Microservices | REST APIs | Database Design | Performance Optimization | Scalability | Security | Code Review | Code Refactoring | Object-Oriented Programming | Design Patterns | Data Structures | Algorithms | Test-Driven Development | Continuous Integration | Continuous Deployment | DevOps | Monitoring | Logging | Troubleshooting | Debugging | System Architecture | System Design | Distributed Systems | High Availability | Load Balancing | Message Queues | Event-Driven Architecture | Version Control | Git | Code Repositories | Team Leadership | Mentorship | Technical Project Management | Cross-Functional Collaboration | Communication | Problem-Solving | Critical Thinking | Innovation | Creativity | Continuous Learning | Venture Capital | Private Equity Fundraising ### Software Engineer @ Cardlytics, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Atlanta Area Reporting to the Director of Engineering on a 6 person Agile Scrum Team, responsible for full stack development using C#, ASP.NET, AngularJS, React, and RabbitMQ in a SQL Server Environment. • Financial Institution Data Integrations – Contributed to the development of a Real Time Data Architecture capable of effectively integrating Citibank’s data with Cardlytics servers, securely sharing over 10k events per second. - In partnership with the Citibank Data Engineering Team, established an ETL process designed to accommodate efficient encryption and decryption as well as data compression to handle high throughput. - With one week remaining before Go Live, identified a critical compression and encryption issue originating from Citibank’s datacenters. Partnered with a Principal Engineer to triage the issue, identifying the root cause, then worked overnight with the Citi Engineering Team to fix the encryption protocol. • Infrastructure Scaling – In preparation for an IPO soon after onboarding Bank of America, tasked with scaling the data infrastructure required to bring Citibank online without disruptions to existing revenue generating operations. - Using C#, C, and RabbitMQ in a Linux environment designed and implemented a secure ETL process capable of processing a near 100% increase in daily data throughput. AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND TECHNOLOGY PROFILE Agile Methodology | JIRA | Kanban | RabbitMQ | ASP.NET | AngularJS | React | SQL Server | C# | Linux | C | Terminal | Software Development | Cloud Computing | Microservices | REST APIs | Database Design | Performance Optimization | Scalability | Object-Oriented Programming | Design Patterns | Data Structures | Algorithms | Test-Driven Development | Continuous Integration | Continuous Deployment | DevOps | Monitoring | Logging | Troubleshooting | Debugging | System Architecture | System Design | Distributed Systems | High Availability | Load Balancing | Message Queues | Event-Driven Architecture | ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science University of West Georgia ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/osagaius --- Source: https://flows.cv/osayame JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/osayame/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10