Adebayo A.

Senior Problem Solver

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About

Experience

  • GitLab (Permanent Full-time · 2 yrs 8 mos)
    • Engineering Manager, Runner Core & Deploy
      Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

      Leading the Runner Core team, which owns GitLab Runner, the engine that executes every CI/CD job on the platform and processes millions of jobs weekly across GitLab SaaS and customer infrastructure. I also lead the maintenance of GitLab's Deploy features while building an emerging Continuous Delivery platform designed to orchestrate both traditional releases and the AI-driven workflows that are reshaping how teams build and ship software.

    • Engineering Manager, Remote Development
      Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Leading the Remote Development group, where we're shaping how developers code, collaborate, and contribute from anywhere. My team builds and maintains two products: the Web IDE - a powerful, browser-based editor, and Workspaces - a secure, cloud-hosted development environments. These products not only improve productivity and flexibility for distributed teams, but also open new possibilities for enhancing AI-driven workflows by providing scalable, consistent environments for experimentation and integration between Agents and Humans in the loop.

    • Engineering Manager, Import
      Jun 2025 - Sep 2025 · 4 mos

      Leading the Import group through organizational transformation, where I've helped reprioritize our roadmap to focus on scalability, reliability, and availability improvements. Contributed to getting Direct Transfer to General Availability - a feature that helps customers migrate their GitLab groups and projects between instances without manual export/import steps. This reduces what used to be a multi-day process to hours for teams moving their repositories, issues, and merge requests. Stepped in to draft the team's next roadmap and supporting the search for a permanent Engineering Manager, ensuring continuity for customers who depend on migration tools for their GitLab transitions.

  • BenchSci (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
    • Engineering Manager - Search, Core Services
      Apr 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      I manage Engineering teams focused on building and maintaining Search functionality, maintaining the Infrastructure for owned services, and enabling other internal teams to do the same with increasing autonomy.

    • Senior Engineer - Tech Lead
      Mar 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

      I lead a team that focuses on exposing Search functionality and Data Pipelines for Scientific Experiment data. Stack: Python-Django, Postgres, Elasticsearch, BigQuery, Kubernetes & GCP

    • Senior Fullstack Engineer
      Apr 2020 - Feb 2021 · 11 mos

      I work on the Platform Team that gives Bench Scientists access to data which aids in the Reagent selection for preclinical Life Science research. My work ranges from working on integrations with Enterprise clients to ensure a seamless experience for Scientists and their organizations to working on User-facing features that increase conversion based on data-driven experiments (Product-Led Growth). Stack: JavaScript (NodeJS & ReactJS), Python (DJango), Serverless (AWS Lambda) & PostgreSQL

  • Senior Software Engineer at CANDIS.io
    Aug 2018 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

    I worked on a Team of Full-stack Software Engineers in maintaining and innovating on the Candis Financial Accounting platform in other to provide easy to use Automated Accounting for Small and Medium sized companies. Stack: JavaScript, NodeJS, ReactJS, MeteorJS, Serverless - AWS Lambda, Distributed Computing, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, Docker...

  • Andela (2 yrs 1 mo)
    • Technical Team Lead
      Oct 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr

      I lead a team of Full-stack Software Developers across Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda in building internal products in the company using the theory and methods of Cognitive Apprenticeship – Modeling, Coaching, Scaffolding, Articulation, Reflection and Exploration. I lead the Learning Facilitators in the Simulations Program to ensure it stays true to its goal of raising world-class developers and help troubleshoot and improve processes and program design. Implement experiments to improve the curriculum, programs and executions in department. Stack: JavaScript – Angular4, PHP – Lumen

    • Software Development Learning Facilitator
      Sep 2016 - Sep 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Implementing and Co-Designing Learning Programs that ensure you build world-class Software Developers. I work with Full-stack JavaScript teams teams to build products by providing support in various capacities. Sometimes I'm a Project Manager driving execution, sometimes I'm a Technical Team Lead pairing and reviewing code and other times I'm a Learning Facilitator gearing you towards unleashing your learning potential. Stack: JavaScript - NodeJS, Express, AngularJS & ReactJS

  • Software Engineer at Konga Online Shopping Ltd
    Oct 2015 - Sep 2016 · 1 yr

    I worked on a team that built and maintained Enterprise Solutions for the Customer Success, Warehousing and Order Management functions of the business. Built and maintained Konga’s internal Customer Relationship Management solution which replaced the use of Sales Force internally which served the business's custom functions and also brought about a lot of cost savings that would have gone into licensing fees. Built and maintained various integrations to SAP's ERP System Stack: PHP - Phalcon, Java - Spring, AWS OpsWorks, Continous Integration, Agile Methodologies