Academic Leadership & Research Faculty

The Practitioners & Systems Architects Behind the Curricula

Savadub Institute’s faculty is comprised of active staff software engineers, cybersecurity researchers, enterprise architects, and quantitative scientists who build, audit, and defend production systems daily.

8 Distinguished Faculty & Fellows
100% Industry & Research Practitioners
Peer-Reviewed Publications & Preprints
Ige Fadele
Systems Architecture & Academic Direction

Ige Fadele

Founder & Principal Systems Architect

Enterprise Systems Architect & Creator of the Savadub Code-as-Proof Pedagogy

Enterprise systems architect, open-source author, and software engineer with extensive hands-on experience designing multi-tenant federated SaaS ecosystems, high-throughput financial ledgers, and technical compliance defense frameworks. Formulated the Institute’s foundational pedagogy—replacing passive video tutorials with executable terminal labs, containerized topologies, and deterministic code evaluations.

Domain Specialties
Distributed Systems Architecture Multi-Tenant SaaS Deterministic Autograders Technical Compliance (SOC 2, ISO)
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Dr. Marcus Vance, Ph.D.
Artificial Intelligence & Quantitative Systems

Dr. Marcus Vance, Ph.D.

Faculty Lead & Research Fellow — Applied AI & Statistical Computing

Machine Learning Systems Researcher & Autonomous Agent Benchmark Lead

Senior research fellow focusing on deterministic evaluation harnesses for generative code models, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT/QLoRA), and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. Directs the Applied AI and Machine Learning curricula at Savadub Institute.

Domain Specialties
Autonomous Agent Systems LLM Eval Harnesses PyTorch & MLOps Statistical Learning
Academic & Social Links:
Elena Rostova, CISSP, CISA
Cybersecurity & Compliance Engineering

Elena Rostova, CISSP, CISA

Faculty Lead — Information Security, Pentesting & Technical GRC

Principal Security Researcher, Certified Information Systems Auditor & GRC Fellow

Veteran penetration tester and governance auditor with over a decade of experience designing and defending audited control matrices across SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. Instructs live offensive cybersecurity labs and oversees security curriculum audits.

Domain Specialties
Web Application Pentesting SOC 2 & ISO 27001 Auditing Threat Modeling NIST CSF & FISMA
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Dr. Tariq Al-Mansoor, Ph.D.
Software Systems Engineering

Dr. Tariq Al-Mansoor, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer & Lead Architect — Enterprise Java Systems

Distributed Systems Architect, High-Throughput Java 21 & Consensus Specialist

Staff software architect specializing in zero-downtime distributed banking ledgers, Spring Boot 3.3 microservices, and Project Loom virtual thread concurrency. Leads the Enterprise Java track and advises on high-throughput database replication.

Domain Specialties
Enterprise Java 21 & Spring Boot Project Loom & Virtual Threads Kafka Distributed Streaming PostgreSQL Ledger Engines
Academic & Social Links:
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Software Systems Engineering

Chioma Okonkwo

Principal Lecturer — Modern PHP & Multi-Tenant SaaS

Cloud SaaS Architect, Domain-Driven Design (DDD) & Monorepo Specialist

Senior software engineer and open-source contributor specializing in federated multi-tenant web applications, Laravel ecosystem architecture, and asynchronous worker clusters. Leads code-review clinics and capstone evaluations for web systems learners.

Domain Specialties
Laravel 12 & PHP 8.4 Multi-Tenant Tenancy Architecture Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Redis Pub/Sub & Workers
Academic & Social Links:
HL
Applied Research & Systems Security

Dr. Henrik Lindqvist, Ph.D.

Senior Research Fellow — Cryptographic Protocols & Zero-Trust

Applied Cryptographer, Post-Quantum Protocol & Zero-Knowledge Verification Researcher

Postdoctoral research fellow investigating reproducible cryptographic primitives, zero-knowledge proofs for credential verification, and quantum-resistant key encapsulation mechanisms. Supervises applied research papers and academic grant projects.

Domain Specialties
Applied Cryptography Zero-Knowledge Proofs Verifiable Credential Registries Post-Quantum Protocols
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Mobile Engineering

Amara Diop

Senior Lecturer — Cross-Platform Mobile & Client Architecture

Mobile Systems Architect & Native Platform Channel Specialist

Cross-platform systems engineer with over 8 years authoring high-concurrency client applications in Flutter and native Swift/Kotlin. Specializes in offline-first synchronization protocols, custom native platform channels, and local encrypted SQLite runtimes.

Domain Specialties
Flutter / Dart Architecture Native iOS (Swift) & Android (Kotlin) Offline-First Sync Engines Mobile Security & Encryption
Academic & Social Links:
SC
Data Science & Learning Analytics

Dr. Sophia Chen, Ph.D.

Quantitative Research Fellow & Lead Data Analyst

Educational Psychometrician & Quantitative Curriculum Modeler

Quantitative researcher specializing in curriculum learning analytics, student progression dynamics, and automated rubric scoring reliability. Authors empirical studies on developer skill progression across terminal-based laboratory environments.

Domain Specialties
Psychometric Modeling Statistical Computing & R/Python Curriculum Telemetry Analytics Automated Grading Fairness
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Collaborative Appointments

Interested in Authoring, Researching, or Mentoring?

We collaborate with university professors, post-doctoral scholars, and staff engineers globally. Propose a semester sabbatical residency, co-author an engineering curriculum module, or lead an advanced masterclass cohort.