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Professional summary

Hi, I'm Akin.

I'm a Software Engineer at Elanco, working across cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and full-stack development with Terraform, Azure, GCP, TypeScript, and Next.js. I'm in my final year studying Computer Science at the University of Reading, graduating in 2027, and enjoy building scalable software, automating workflows, and learning new technologies.

TypeScriptJavaScriptJavaReactTailwind CSSTerraformDockerNode.jsMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud

At a glance

Current role
Software Engineer, Elanco
Key impact
iOS releases reduced from 4 hours to 5-10 minutes
Focus
Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and web applications
Education
BSc Computer Science, University of Reading

Open to opportunities and collaboration.

Selected work

Recent GitHub projects

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29d ago

Console robot_simulator

2D Console Robot Simulator that moves a robot around the console from a command-line interface using Java.

Java0 stars

Current signals

What I'm learning

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Learning

Terraform infrastructure

Reusable infrastructure modules and safer multi-environment delivery.

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Learning

Google Cloud Platform

Cloud architecture, observability, and scalable application delivery.

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Building

CI/CD that removes friction

Delivery pipelines that make releases predictable and fast.

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Recent impact

What I've delivered

Release automation

Reduced iOS release time from around four hours to 5-10 minutes with GitHub Actions and Ruby.

Open-source component library

Built and published Looply, a reusable React component library with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS, reaching 100+ npm installs.

Selected case studies

Work with measurable outcomes

GitHub Actions, YAML, Ruby

Mobile release automation

Replaced a time-consuming iOS and Android release process involving manual package builds, approval emails, signing credentials, and publishing with an automated workflow. Reduced iOS deployment time from around four hours to 5-10 minutes.

TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS

Looply component library

Noticing a gap for a reusable neumorphic component library, designed, built, and published Looply with a live documentation site and npm package, reaching 100+ downloads.

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Terraform, Azure, Google Cloud

Cloud observability

As cloud spend increased, built reusable Terraform alerting modules across Azure and Google Cloud, then shipped them for other teams to monitor costs and act before overspending.

TypeScript, Next.js, Schema.org

Generative engine optimization

Generative AI tools were pulling Pet Portal product details from third-party sources, risking misinformation. Implemented Schema.org data so AI systems can access accurate first-party product information.

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Fun fact

The most goated note-taking app is Obsidian.

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Looply

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npm downloads in the last 7 days

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Build queue

  1. 01 Improve Looply documentation
  2. 02 Expand Terraform cost alerts
  3. 03 Learn GCP observability

Currently reading

Expedition

Wayne Barlowe's illustrated science-fiction expedition to Darwin IV.

Commit message generator

feat: automate mobile release approvals