Welcome

Quick intro

I am Bolaji. I build production data platforms, data products, and the teams behind them.

What I do

I design cost-efficient data stacks around user and business needs. I build batch and streaming pipelines, with governed automation supporting daily operations.

My profile

A decade in Data Science, with 7 years owning technical roadmaps and leading end-to-end cloud data operations. GCP first, hands-on AWS and Databricks.

Some facts

Built over 300 pipelines. Handled 45 million events daily. Reduced GCP costs by 42%. Established data function in a multinational. Grew team to 14. Consulted for ITC(WTO).

[01] I AM

Bolaji
Balogoun.

Former Head of Data with seven years building production data platforms and a decade across data science and analytics. I blend Staff-level engineering depth with experience leading teams, shaping data strategy, and delivering cloud-native systems that are reliable, cost-efficient, and built for scale.

Role
Data Engineer · Data Architect
Years
2013 → '26
Based
Little Rock, AR, USA
Status
Open to market
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Bolaji Balogoun
FIG. 1: Momboladji B.
~5 TB
Batch upserts/day (average)
45M
Streaming events/day (average)
~300
Dataform models & Airflow DAGs
−42.57%
GCP cost in one quarter
650+
Data Hub employees, field agents & partners
[02] SELECTED WORK

Index, 2018–2026.

5 ENTRIES · ALL
01 Data DirectorEmployment GOZEM Apr 2025 - Jul 2026 02 Data Management ConsultantConsulting International Trade Centre - ITC (UN Agency) 2023 03 Head of DataEmployment GOZEM Oct 2022 - Mar 2025 04 Global Data AnalystEmployment GOZEM Nov 2019 - Sep 2022 05 Data ScientistEmployment RINTIO Jul 2018 - May 2019

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Technologies I use

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[03] RECENT WRITING

Notes & essays.

BLOG.BOLABLG.COM ↗
Oct 2026
From files to reliable tables: The promise of open table formats

How Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi... turn raw files into consistent, shareable tables.

Substack ↗ May 2026
From insight to action: The rise of Data Product Engineering in scaleups

How operational analytics evolved into internal products at Gozem, and how AI-assisted engineering changed the economics of building them.

Substack ↗ Oct 2025
Beyond standard Google Dataform: Smart templates to save BigQuery costs & Dev time

An extended all-in-one data modeling framework with Google Cloud Dataform

Substack ↗

[04] RECOGNITION

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01 CAF2025 speaker: Super Apps & Data Protection On Gozem's super-app approach to data protection 2025 02 WakeUp Champ podcast guest On the path from statistics to data science leadership 2023
03 Zindi Africa Award AI4D African Dataset Challenge (Takwimu LAB) 2020
[05] CONTACT

Let's build →

An idea, a problem, an opportunity? hello@bolablg.com

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