Esther Olatunde
CTO & co-founder; senior product engineer and full-stack developer
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Dublin, Ireland
Joined May 2026
Summary
Product-focused technologist who balances building user-facing features with long-term maintainability. In interviews and podcasts she emphasises software maintenance, technical debt, and advocating for maintenance work alongside new feature development. maintainable+1
Startup founder and technical leader: co-founded Tress and served as CTO, building a niche consumer product for Black women's hair and navigating accelerator programs (MEST, Y Combinator) and early-stage product development. ycombinator+2
Practical full‑stack engineer with hands-on operational experience: has worked across backend and infrastructure tasks (examples documented on her blog), demonstrating skills in Ruby on Rails, app migrations, and deployment. estherolatunde+1
International background and community presence: trained at MEST in Africa, participated in Y Combinator, and has professional experience and presence in Dublin with active public profiles (personal site, GitHub, social media). trueafrica+2
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Remote Work Playbook
June 1, 2019A practical guide on how to introduce remote work to teams and how to get started with remote work processes.
Migrate Rails App From Heroku to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
September 1, 2018Step-by-step account of migrating a production Ruby on Rails application from Heroku to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, covering stack components and operational considerations.