# Oluwalase Soboyejo

**Software Engineer (Backend) · Nigeria**

Backend Engineer with 2+ years of experience building and deploying production backend, machine learning, and web services on AWS. Proven track record of owning and maintaining features across multiple products for US-based startups.

Profile: https://path.cv/jothamsl

*Last updated: August 2026*

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## Experience

### Backend Engineer at Breadkrumb
*Jan 2024 – Present*

Owned development of LLM-based recommendation services and maintained the company website using React.js.

### Creators Community Lead at Hebron Startup Lab
*Aug 2025 – Mar 2026*

Mentor student founders from ideation to fundraising and partner with companies to host hackathons and events.

### Volunteer Research Engineer at AI-Plans
*Aug 2025 – Dec 2025*

Developed research guides for community members and contribute to AI safety and alignment research on mechanistic interpretability.

### Virtual Assistant at Vinegraph
*Jan 2023 – Jan 2024*

Designed a content-based movie recommendation system and developed ETL pipelines for large-scale movie records.

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## Skills

Python · JavaScript · Java · Golang · Rust · Node.js · React · PyTorch · SQL · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Docker · AWS · System Design · Microservices · CI/CD

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## Projects

### Zenalign

A co-pilot for data scientists to audit and enhance dataset quality before ML training.

[View Project →](https://github.com/jothamsl/Zenalign)

### Villion

A custom vector database that runs over a billion vectors in under 100ms.

[View Project →](https://github.com/jothamsl/Villion)

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## Education

### B.sc. Computer Science in Computer Science
*Covenant University*
Jan 2023 – Present

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## Awards

- **3rd Place Winner** — Interswitch Discovery Series Hackathon (Nov 2025)