Abiola is a Technopreneur, an ardent advocate of quality software; passionate about seeing that businesses reap the full benefits of their investments in IT.
Abiola holds an M.Sc in Information Security and Privacy from Cardiff University, United Kingdom and B.Sc in Computer Science with Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife .She has also obtained professional certifications such as IT Service Management (ITIL), Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). She has more than a decade of professional experience across varying fields of Information Technology; ranging from being an Application developer, Quality Assurance manager to Information System Auditor. She has proficiency in the following areas of software development: Mobile App Development, Python, PHP, Graphic User Interface Design with CSS and Jquery, HTML, Javascript, Model-View-Controller concept, agile methodology
Abiola has developed and patented a software product, Customer Management and Self Service software which integrated some leading accounting software.
As a Certified Ethical Hacker, she understands the possible means by which IT Systems can be exploited by a hacker, also her knowledge as a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) makes her understand how controls can be built into a software system to ensure the business is protected from frauds and security breach. In June 2016, she participated in Testathon (a hackaton for testers organized by the Global App Testing) and she won the “Best Bug Award”.
Abiola is an Alumna of US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs; she was mentored and trained by the global leader in Cyber Security – Symantec Corporation at their headquarters in California. She worked closely with the development team at Symantec, where she was further exposed to various best practices and newer technologies in software development; while at Silicon Valley, She also had the opportunity of interacting with other leading IT companies such as Linkedin, Mozilla, Youtube, Google, Autodesk etc She is passionate about impacting knowledge into others, she believes our society still has so much to benefit from the application of IT hence wishes that many would be armed with programming skills.