Senior Software Engineer

Ajiboye Taiwo Bernard

My name is Ajiboye Taiwo Bernard, though most people know me as BOLDMAN 💪🏽.

The nickname has been around for about 15 years, and somehow, it still fits.

I'm a fullstack engineer with over 8 years professional experience in the field. I build things across the stack, from backend systems and APIs to frontend interfaces, dashboards, admin tools, deployment flows, and all the tiny annoying details that actually make software work well.

I always say I'm a core Pythonista and a very good Rustacean 🦀. Python is home for me, but Rust has been that language that keeps reminding me to write better, cleaner, and more intentional code.

I'm a cloud engineer / architect, prospectous in AWS and its services. I enjoy designing systems that can actually survive the real world — EC2, load balancers, S3, RDS, Route 53, IAM, deployments, monitoring, scaling, networking, and making sure production isn't embarrasing .

Lastly, I love Vim. You'd love it as well, give it a shot.

Skills

Backend

Python, Django, Django REST Framework, FastAPI, APIs, PostgreSQL, Caches, Index Engines, MySQL, Async jobs and state, Streaming and Batching Ops, integrations, and server-side logic.

Frontend

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Alpine.js, HTMX, Handlebar, sophisticated, and clean user interfaces.

Cloud / DevOps

AWS, EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, IAM, VPC, ALB, Nginx, Gateway Interfaces, Networking, Linux servers, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring and Telemetry.

Systems & Tools

Rust, Git, Bash, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automation, Vim, Linux tooling, performance testing, and deep debugging.

Currently: building, breaking, fixing, deploying, learning — and still trying to convince people that Vim is not that hard.