Tumi Akinade

Tumi is an Associate Director in the Tech Platforms unit of the Advisory Services division of KPMG in Nigeria and has over 15 years of professional experience providing value adding technology advisory support to corporate entities. Tumi has professional experience in various IT solutions and implantation support. He has extensive knowledge in advising clients on solutions that optimize operational efficiency, process integration and management, systems software development and implantation support, system design, IT strategy, digital transformation and project management. Prior to joining KPMG in 2023, Tumi has served in various leading role including Senior Support Solution Specialist, at MICROSOFT, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at IBM, Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead), at Soft Alliance and Resources Ltd., Tech Specialist at Oracle Nigeria, Software Developer at 21st Century Technologies and 2mbus Solutions. Tumi has led various teams in the implementation of technology-driven solutions.

Some of his project experience include leading the team that executed One Microsoft to enable Customer Outcomes working closely with the Account Team Unit, Customer Success Unit and the Specialist Team Unit to ensure a positive 'One Microsoft’ customer experience. Owned the Microsoft Unified Support opportunities end to end, leveraging appropriate presales roles to bring the best resources to ensure customer satisfaction & deal success. Worked with CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, CISO to transform their organization by ensuring Adequate Microsoft Support services are mapped against our customers’ Initiatives and are properly delivered by an expert team. Led and oversaw a specialized team of 8 Senior Technical Specialist and Architects in the planning, development, & management of modern Apps, leveraging multicloud platforms. Led the architecture, development of high-performing Banking APIs for 14 Multinational Banks and Payment processors, some with very high throughput of over 10 million requests per day.

Tumi provided technical leadership for 21 Vendor/Partner organizations, and more than 40 Software Engineers and Admins from those organizations.

He has also provided technical direction and design thought leadership to CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, CISO to ensure I delivered predictable technical outcomes for Application Modernization and workload migrations to IBM Cloud Platform and Multi-Cloud platforms. Led the architecture and delivery of Mobile Banking platform for 6 Banks in Sub Saharan Africa. Led the delivery and implementation of DevOps practices for over 10 Multi-national organizations Provided Technical mentorship in areas of modern architecture, adoption of modern technologies and processes to end customers. Some include event-streaming based on Apache Kafka, Restful API design and adoption, Adoption of Modern DevOps practices, Adoption of best-in-class apps and API security best practices around authentication, authorization and auditing, helping organizations refactor existing monolithic apps to Microservices based apps. Mentored Oracle Business Partners to develop 6 customer java/PLSQL applications using Oracle Mobile Application Development Framework (ADF), Oracle Application Framework (OAF), Javascript, and deployable on Oracle Weblogic Servers.

He has provided technical mentorship to 5 Oracle Business Partners and 21 Customers’ technical team.

Tumi has worked on 2 System Integration projects as an integration developer. Skills: Oracle SOA Suite and Java. Created and maintained re-usable technical assets and documentation shared among the ecosystems. Worked on Java based HR management platform resold in the Nigerian Market. Modules worked on included Solely developed a PHP based IP Camera NOC platform for aggregating multiple IP Camera feeds from multiple Camera vendors. A max feed display of 25 cameras per page was achieved on v1. Software Development team member on Billing System capable of managing over 100,000 customers with over 5000 concurrent request. Developed the USSD recharge, self-service profile management (refactoring the existing social community platform). Team member on the payment integrating for the Self-Service portal. System administration – Servers, Hypervisors, Storage, OS (Unix, Linux Windows Server), Database admin for fixed wired telco customers.