Short
Yomi Olatunji is an engineering manager in financial services. He writes about software and leadership at yomiolatunji.com, and mentors engineers early in their careers.
Speaking & mentoring
Talks, and the people I mentor
Mostly to students and engineers early on. If you are organising something and it fits, get in touch.
Talks
Introduction to Web Design - a three-month programme
Evergreen Knowledge and Skill Forum · Sixteen sessions, co-facilitated
How to Prepare a Resume and Interview Skills
Evergreen Knowledge and Skill Forum · co-presented
From Mathematics to Technology: Journey to Tech
Evergreen Knowledge and Skill Forum - inaugural mentorship class · 60 students
Mentoring
I am the lead mentor for software development at theEvergreen Knowledge and Skill Forum, a not-for-profit that helps students and recent graduates find their footing in technology. I have been doing it since 2021.
In practice that means a small group at any one time - between thirteen and fifteen mentees over that period - a mix of scheduled sessions and answering questions as they come up, and, the part that actually matters, staying available long enough to be useful when someone hits a wall.
Beyond the one-to-one work I have run training for the forum at a larger scale: a data science series that drew around 700 registrations and held roughly 200 people per session. I also run the organisation's YouTube channel end to end, which is where the recordings live.
What I speak on
- Getting into software engineeringFor students and career-changers: what the first few years actually ask of you.
- Engineer to engineering managerWhat changes in the move to leading a team, what does not, and what nobody warns you about.
- Building software in financial servicesWhat the domain demands - reliability, correctness, and the cost of getting money wrong.
Something adjacent to these is usually fine too - ask.
Speaker bio
Longer
Yomi Olatunji is an engineering manager at a financial institution, where he leads a team building systems in financial services. He has spent about a decade in software, mostly in banking and latterly in healthcare SaaS, and has a background in mathematics and accountancy that turns out to be more useful in fintech than it sounds. He is building Efficlick, mentors software engineers through the Evergreen Knowledge and Skill Forum, and takes photographs.
Both are free to copy and edit for a programme or a listing.Download a headshot - 1254×1254 JPEG, fine for a web listing or a programme, not a print file.
