Funmilayo Suleiman

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Director of Engineering at Access Bank · Data pipelines

Access Bank
Lagos, Nigeria · WAT (UTC+1)
11+ years experience
GIBS
English, Yoruba
Co-founder
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Overview

Director of Engineering at Access Bank, focused on data pipelines. Built the experimentation framework 18 product teams use to ship changes safely. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

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  • Courses and coaching offers
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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
PythonAirflowIcebergdbtSparkSQLKafka
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a technical co-founder for credit underwriting for pharmacies

The idea
Credit underwriting for pharmacies
Stage
Prototype
I bring
5 years in data pipelines
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Lagos or remote

I bring 17 years of data pipelines (currently Access Bank). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Full-time from day one.

Lagos, Nigeria · remote OKdbticebergsql
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    May 2026 - Present
    Access Bank · 5 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 2.
    • Grew the data platform team from 6 to 22 engineers.
  2. Senior Data Engineer
    Sep 2023 - May 2026
    Google · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Cut forecast error from 24% to 7% across 1176 SKUs.
    • Built the forecasting models now used in 11 product decisions a quarter.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Mar 2021 - Sep 2023
    Ecobank · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Backed 22 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 17 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Aug 2017 - Mar 2021
    EY · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Wrote the SQL service that now handles 52 million requests a day.
    • Built the experimentation framework 33 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  5. Senior Data Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Jul 2017
    Jumia · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Taught SQL to 60 non-analysts.
    • Cut forecast error from 22% to 9% across 2772 SKUs.

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Education

  1. GIBS
    MBA, Business Administration
    2011 - 2013
  2. Covenant University
    BEng, Computer Science
    2005 - 2009

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