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        I’m Tobi Afolayan, a software engineer with 7+ years of professional experience building applications, developer tools, and shared infrastructure.      

        I work full-time at Systone in government technology, building reusable DevSecOps tooling, shared engineering infrastructure, and automation for CMS engineering teams.      

        Alongside that, I work as a freelance full-stack software engineer on RTDM, a real-time budgeting and reporting application in the federal health technology ecosystem.      

        My engineering foundation includes financial technology at Elevate Credit and developer tooling at Microsoft, where I worked on the Windows Driver Kit.      

        At New York University’s Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, I’m currently pursuing an MA in Music Business with a concentration in Music Technology—extending that technical foundation into a deeper understanding of the music industry and the systems behind it.      

        That inquiry also takes shape through Apollo Wrldx, which I co-founded to bring people together through live experiences; Music DNA / MIRR, which explores musical identity and music information retrieval; and Ajor, which explores digital tools for ajo/susu savings communities.    

        My current interests span rights and metadata, streaming economics, music information retrieval, immersive audio, live experiences, and the infrastructure around African and diaspora music. Engineering, graduate research, and cultural work are parallel practices that increasingly inform one another.      

        From Kwara State to Dallas to Brooklyn.
        Nigerian roots. Building with a diaspora perspective.