About

Olaolu Akinsete is a Senior Solutions Architect with over 11 years of relevant experience in the IT industry. He is ITIL 4 Foundation certified and has a proven track record of successfully delivering innovative, cost-effective, and high-quality solutions on time and within budget. Olaolu is a results-oriented technology leader who excels in creating vision, identifying opportunities, and building successful teams. He has extensive experience in leading medium to large and diverse technology teams, managing large IT budgets, and achieving continuous improvement through Six Sigma DMAICT and PDCA methodologies. As a Lead Solutions Architect at Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems Plc, Olaolu has designed and redesigned solutions with millions of daily requests and users. He has facilitated processes to improve service quality, sustainability, extensibility, maintainability, and cost savings. Olaolu has also significantly improved development delivery time by identifying and facilitating module reusability in design. Olaolu's expertise in designing key strategy projects has significantly enhanced support service delivery by improving operational visibility. He has also facilitated the improvement of technology, best practices, and transition to virtualization. Olaolu has enforced standard documentation, policies, and provided guidance to development teams. He has worked closely with product, security, technical operations, and developers to create designs for product development in an Agile environment utilizing Jira and Confluence for documentation. Before joining Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems Plc, Olaolu worked as a Team Lead, DevOps at Andela, where he managed a distributed remote team of about 26 engineers handling GCP and AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps concerns for six actively used products. He also worked as a DevOps and Software Engineer (Part-time) at Cleverage Global Media Technology, where he automated an Ansible playbook for Kubernetes cluster configuration on AWS. Olaolu holds a Master's degree in Chemical Biology from the University of Sussex, a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Lagos, and an Executive Entry-Level Training Program 16 in Banking and Financial Support Services from Access Bank School of Banking Excellence. Olaolu's tech stack includes AWS, infra, DevOps, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, QA, CI/CD, Redis, GCP, and mobile. He is a senior software engineer with a passion for mentoring and inspiring underprivileged youth.