# Tobi Bola

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tobibola

Knowledgeable software engineer with over seven (7) years of industry experience building scalable applications spanning multiple industries including Telecoms, Insurance, Banking, FinTECH, Health, Government, and eCommerce. 

• Tech breakdown: 80% backend and 20% Frontend (React, Vue, Angular, TypeScript).
• An excellent team player with strong analytical skills, highly motivated, problem-solving attitude, quick learner, passionate and result oriented.
 . Emerged the most hardworking and reliable employee for different years consecutively.

Tech Stack:
  - Web services (GraphQL, RESTful API and SOAP), Spring Cloud, Spring Boot, Core Java, Node, Javascript.
  - Microservices designs and Architectures (including Event Streaming and Queue management).
  - Container and Cloud: Docker, AWS, GKE, Kubernetes.
  - Security: JWT, OAuth 2.0.
  - CI/CD: Jenkins, Teamcity, Concourse, Bit Bucket, Git, Docker, Maven, Gradle.
  - Database: Redis, Oracle, MongoDB, MySql, Rabbit MQ, Kafka.
  - Industry: Insurance, Banking, eCommerce, Government, Education, Consultancy.
  - Others: Design patterns, mentorship, Agile, Scrum.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Ooma, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Present | California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Aella App
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022
o	Received the most hardworking and most reliable employee award for the year 2018 and 2019 consecutively. Innovation award was jointly received by the team.
o	Built and maintained application that scaled to 500k daily users, communicating with cross-functional teams regarding product and design
o	Built a payment service that helps around repayments in an innovative way thereby driving revenue growth
o	Focused on full stack development, providing mentorship and coaching to junior engineers
o	Earned the most hardworking and dependable employee consecutively for the year 2018 and 2019 respectively
o	Go to Engineer for complex customer technical support issue resolutions, thereby driving growth; the resultant effect being high customer satisfaction, higher app ratings on both Google playstore and Apple store
o	Worked on varying product offerings / services which includes but not limited to Loan process management and recovery, Insurance Marketplace, Payment service, Crypto service integrations, Wallet service, Investment service, etcetera
o	Built and developed a financial reconciliatory platform and/or portal for the Lagos State Government (LASG) co-operative society thereby easing over 20 years burden of loan deductions and reconciliations on the Oracle system
o	Built RESTful APIs that served data to the Mobile app users, JavaScript front-end based on dynamically chosen user inputs that handled over 500,000 concurrent users
o	Built the first version of the Android app
o	Worked on moving the monolythic system to microservices powered with about 20 services.
o	Interfacing with the customer success team, collections/recovery, finance for proper and effective service delivery.
o	Close work with the CTO on deployment processes.

### Software Engineer @ Campus Punch
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Lagos
o	Developed cloud-based technologies for a couple of clients like HPZ, Eset Smart Securities, Meristem, thereby increasing their productivity by 40% or more
o	Teamed up with current clients to understand needs for improved functionality, and communicated with engineers and clients to develop enhancements that boosted client satisfaction by 25%
o	Manipulated algorithms to align with marketing, sales, and solutions, improving automation by 32%
o	 Mentored junior engineers which in turn led to faster and more productive developments
o	 Interactions with clients to aid faster resolve of issues and fast-track deliverables

### Student Internship @ Reime West Africa Ltd
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
o	Developed the Inventory Management App.
o	Implementation and troubleshooting system issues, and other minor repairs. 
o	Network configuration and management of devices such as Routers, switches.


## Education
### Master's degree in Cybersecurity
American National University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
Jan 2008 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bola-tobi

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Last updated: 2026-03-22