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Olawale Lawal

Software engineer working on payments and backend systems. I write about how they're built, mostly in .NET and Go.

Writing

Stop Rolling Your Own Transaction Management in .NETlatestWhy TransactionScope is a better way to manage database transactions in .NET than a hand-rolled unit of work.Quorum: A Maker-Checker Approval Engine in GoQuorum is a standalone maker-checker approval engine in Go: serialized votes, outbox-backed webhooks, tenant isolation and real-time SSE updates.Iterating a .NET CI/CD Pipeline From 12 Minutes to Under 5I added automated API snapshot tracking to a four-service .NET backend and watched GitHub Actions build times go from 3 minutes to over 12.BranchGuard: Path-Based Branch Protection Rules as a GitHub AppHow I built a stateless GitHub App that evaluates configurable branch protection rules based on which files changed, with zero infrastructure dependencies.Dynamic Log Levels in .NET: Auto-Enabling Debug Logging on ErrorsA production observability platform that auto-enables verbose logging on errors and disables it when resolved. Built with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and .NET.All 23 posts The payments series

Projects

QuorumStandalone maker-checker approval engine. Serialises concurrent votes, delivers webhooks through an outbox and isolates tenants.

Go
PostgreSQL
SSE

BranchGuardStateless GitHub App that applies branch protection rules based on which files a pull request changes.

TypeScript
Probot
GitHub Apps

API Diff ToolSwagger diffing that went from a React SPA to embedded HTML to reusable NuGet packages for ASP.NET projects.

.NET
OpenAPI
NuGet

Auto-LoggingTurns verbose logging on when errors appear and off once they resolve, so nobody has to ask for debug logs.

.NET
OpenTelemetry
Grafana

Olawale LawalSoftware engineer · payments · .NET and Go

transmissions: 23
online since: 2023
last signal: 18 Apr 2026
strongest band: .NET
band: distributed
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