Illustrated portrait of Qudus Animashaun

Hey, I'm Qudus Animashaun.

qudusani99@gmail.com 07449539192 Manchester, UK

Available for new projects, collaborations, and interesting ideas.

I’m interested in building useful web products, documenting what I learn in public, and creating small internet businesses with taste and leverage.

Depop (Etsy Subsidiary) | Senior Backend Engineer

Current

September 2023 - Present | Payments Team | Manchester, UK (Remote)

  • Leading backend work across payments systems, monetisation, and seller economics at scale.
  • Built tax reporting and payment-processing infrastructure with Airflow, SQS, and finance data flows across multiple markets.
  • Improved reliability, launch readiness, and engineering quality through stronger testing and team mentorship.

December 2022 - September 2023 | Martech Team | Manchester, UK (Remote)

  • Owned core ETL and Airflow infrastructure processing 100M+ daily events for paid acquisition and growth.
  • Built promotion, attribution, and prediction pipelines used across Paid, CRM, and AdTech systems.

Bloomberg LP | Full-Stack Software Engineer

2017-2021

August 2017 - December 2021 | Instant Bloomberg Team | London, UK

  • Worked as a full-stack mobile engineer on Instant Bloomberg, using C++ and JavaScript across iOS, Android, and desktop-aligned experiences.
  • Led work on time-sensitive mobile notifications and shared ViewModel infrastructure to improve usability and speed up delivery.
  • Took on release management and later ownership of critical legacy C++ services on the desktop team.

Google | STEP Engineering Intern

2015

Jul 2015 - Sept 2015 | Munich, Germany

  • Migrated the legacy Dashboard server to the BOQ server.
  • Re-implemented the User Account Dashboard using new data producers.

The languages, frameworks, and infrastructure tools I use across product engineering and data-heavy systems.

Programming Languages

Scala • Python • TypeScript • Kotlin • Java • C++

Data Engineering

Apache Airflow • Apache Spark • Kafka • PostgreSQL

Frameworks & Libraries

Akka • Cats • Django • React • Expo

DevOps & CI/CD

AWS • Docker • Kubernetes • Jenkins • Terraform

Warwick University

BSc in Computer Science

Sept 2014 - June 2017

Personal projects and ongoing builds.

Find me on the platforms below or reach out on LinkedIn.