Shina Sam Aladejubelo, Co-founder & Head of Data Engineering

 Shina was a Data Engineering Manager at Devoteam, a large System Integrator in Europe where a lead a team of 15, including data engineers, backend engineers and full stack developers.

He has 16 years overall experience as a software engineer. It was in 2013 however that he got motivated to specialize in Big Data and ML.  He hasn’t looked back since then, enjoying every minute.

He helped enterprise clients in Canada, Spain, Belgium, UK and US work on use-cases such as ETL/ELT, Data Modelling, Data Architecture, Data Governance and Security, Data Warehouses and Data Lakes in the Cloud.

Shina has advanced knowledge of Python, SQL, Scala, Kafka, Kubernetes, BigQuery, Snowflake, Terraform, Rest APIs in enterprise environment across Retail, Telco and AdTech/MarTech.

Shina enjoys working on both existing data estates or creating new data estate from scratch. 

In his spare time, he enjoys teaching and coaching software engineers with a passion for data engineering and AI. 

What are some of the projects you enjoyed working on the most?

• Smart city operating system for the municipality of Barcelona - which involved building batch and realtime big data platform for ingesting data from 3.5M sensors.
• Ad video analytics for getting the most return on every dollar spent on the marketing platform
• User experience monitoring for TV advertisement in Belgium.

What are you top 3 books?

• Data-Driven Marketing: The 15 Metrics Everyone in Marketing Should Know
• Beyonders: Transcending Average Leadership
• The Phoenix Project

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given?

• When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

How would your friends describe you?

• Friends tend to describe me as a compassionate and loving fellow. I try to help wherever I can.

Akinbiyi (British) brings his wealth of experience as a multi-cloud architect and cloud security engineer from leading firms like EY, PwC, HSBC and Lloyds Bank. He holds more than 14 certifications in Azure, Google Cloud and AWS, some of which include Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer, AWS Machine Learning Specialty, AWS Big Data Specialty, etc.

Akinbiyi has a proven track record in implementing robust data architecture with strong cloud security measures in place. He has experience driving cloud migration strategies with  best practices to deliver client outcomes.

He holds a PhD from the prestigious Imperial College, London.

What are some of the projects you enjoyed working on the most?

• Greenfield Cloud Migration: Led a complete cloud migration from on-prem to AWS/GCP, establishing landing zones, network design, and security patterns from scratch.
• Lead Cloud Architect (HSBC): Implemented DevOps practices, designed cloud security patterns, and delivered automation for AWS/GCP services.
• ForgeRock IAM Architecture: Designed secure IAM solutions for a financial services client, streamlining access management.
• Cloud Engineering Compliance & Remediation (EY): Enhanced security for AWS and GCP; improved compliance and identity management.

What are you top 3 books?

• “The Phoenix Project” – Insightful on DevOps and IT transformation.
• “Cloud Native Patterns” – Excellent resource for building resilient cloud-native applications.
• “The Art of Scalability” – Essential for designing scalable systems and teams.

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given?

• "Do it right the first time"

How would your friends describe you?

• Analytical: Problem solver who loves technical challenges.
• Dependable: Always reliable and delivers on commitments.
• Curious: Constantly exploring new technologies and learning.