Dare Omotosho works at the seam between engineering and the business.

For more than five years Dare Omotosho has worked across cloud and cybersecurity, as both an engineer and a technical mentor. He stays AWS-certified in Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate not for the badge, but because credibility in the room depends on still being able to do the work. He has designed hands-on projects that simulate real business challenges, restructured delivery to cut organizational cost, and resolved the kind of IAM and architecture issues that only surface under real load.

The lesson that drives the work came from teaching. As a technical mentor for Udacity's Cloud Developer program, the ALX AWS program, and currently ALX Cybersecurity, he has supported thousands of engineers across large global cohorts, sustaining live-session satisfaction above 90% and helping learners reach certification and career readiness. Mentoring at every level is not a side project; it is the conviction that engineers should think like the business from the first system they build.

He has also helped shape how those programs work: co-authoring operational playbooks and a technical-mentor blueprint, and contributing to organization-wide initiatives, including research, female-activation strategy, and the integration of AI into core delivery. That last thread is the one that matters most. As AI makes running the tools easy, the durable edge becomes judgment: knowing which trade-off, which system, serves the business. So AI is built into how the work and the teaching happen, with human judgment kept at the centre.