Experience

Mkobo

• Nigeria
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineering Manager

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  - I am responsible for directing the Engineering team in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of applications to meet business and performance-related goals.- I work cross-functionally to identify system requirements, designing the architecture, and develop components supporting Mkobo’s application features.- I ensure my team consistently makes and meets commitments to deliver value and actively remove roadblocks for my team.- I debug production issues across all our products and services at multiple levels of the stack and ensure any issues are promptly resolved within agreed SLA.- I ensure that technical decisions support Mkobo’s quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals.- I lead software requirement review, preliminary and critical design, integration readiness review, and software acceptance review.- I consistently communicate and deliver to commitments and increase the velocity of the team by removing roadblocks.- I provide expertise for teams in all matters related to deployment, building and release process.- I ensure my team keep up-to-date with industry trends and developments to ensure that Mkobo's technology conforms with industry standards.- I define quarterly objectives in line with Mkobo’s objectives and ensure the team member’s objective is aligned.- I am responsible for the performance of the Engineering team and the quality and performance of products that are released.



VeendHQ (Techstars '23)

• Nigeria
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Sep 2021 - Nov 2021

  - I led the development of website pop-ups and JavaScript plugins for easy integration with partner websites.- I designed and implemented the Apache Fineract Tenant Creator micro-service which eliminates manual tenant deployment and increase the rate of tenant creation.- I led the implementation of the Partner API Specifications that enable POS applications provide loan services.- I conceptualized and co-implemented the rich email and SMS notification service with templates and SMS provider APIs.- I worked with the Technical / Consumer support team to resolve issues affecting the consumer lending operations.- I led bug fixes, code reviews, product deployment and site reliability.



STEP Inclusive

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2020 - Sep 2021

  - I conceptualized, designed, built and constantly maintain the STEP's ticketing, communication and payment APIs.- I help integrate internal products with third-party payment systems.- I help in setting up CI/CD processes for deployment automation.- I ensure the hardware, mobile applications, USSD and other interfaces integrate seamlessly with the backend API.- I oversee code reviews and approve pull/merge requests.- I ensure efficient, manageable and testable codes are written within the timelines set.- I help incorporate financial institutions banking APIs into our products and work with banks developers to onboard our services on their platforms.



Chaka.com

• Nigeria
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Full Stack Engineer

  • Dec 2020 - Feb 2021

  - I helped build an highly-performant management platform for Mutual Funds.- I developed standard and well-structured APIs to allow communication into the management platform.- I implemented security measures to keep the platform safe against malicious attacks. - I helped build an highly-performant management platform for Mutual Funds.- I developed standard and well-structured APIs to allow communication into the management platform.- I implemented security measures to keep the platform safe against malicious attacks.



Workova

• United States
• Internet Publishing

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Aug 2020 - Oct 2020

  - I led the upgrade process of the existing BaxiBox payment platform to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform.- I oversaw code optimisation of their existing system to improve overall speed, security, and efficiency.- I helped integrate internal products with third-party payment systems.- I helped in restructuring their existing APIs to meet industry standards and modern programming practices. - I led the upgrade process of the existing BaxiBox payment platform to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform.- I oversaw code optimisation of their existing system to improve overall speed, security, and efficiency.- I helped integrate internal products with third-party payment systems.- I helped in restructuring their existing APIs to meet industry standards and modern programming practices.



Africa Business Intelligence [ABI]

• Nigeria
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Developer

  • Mar 2019 - Jan 2020

  - I worked with the development team on code reviews to ensure that codes deployed conform with industry standards and are written upon best programming practices.- I helped with setting up CI/CD processes, code reviews, unit test, debugging and troubleshooting of codes.- I ensured efficient, manageable and testable codes are written within the timelines set.- I collaborated with the developers of financial institutions to incorporate the APIs into our products.- I worked with Google Cloud Services and Microsoft Cognitive Services to incorporate them into the company's products.



ScoutBeyond Inc.

• Software Engineer (Remote)

  • Jun 2018 - Feb 2019

  - I helped in restructuring their existing APIs to meet industry standards and modern programming practices.- I oversaw program deployment, setting up CI/CD processes, software testing, debugging and troubleshooting of their web backend.- I introduced standard security measures to help defend their solutions against SQL Injections, Click-jacking and other attacks.- I helped replace their existing SQL queries with efficient Object Relational Mapper (ORM) to improve the system's speed and stability.



NEW USUAL LTD.

• Nigeria
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Apr 2018 - Feb 2019

  - I helped port about many of their existing SOAP web services to efficient web APIs.- I was a key member of the company's projects management team, tasked with ensuring quality products are delivered in time.- With my understanding of UI/UX, I assisted the User Interface and User Experience team to decide on design layouts that would match the tastes of our clients.- I helped in restructuring their existing APIs to meet industry standards and modern programming practices.- I helped integrate financial banks APIs into their products.



LinguoApp

• Nigeria
• Software Development

• Software Engineer

  • Nov 2017 - Apr 2018

  - I conceptualized, designed and built their underlying text-to-speech engine that supports up to 5 West African languages and their dialects.- I conceptualized, designed and built their efficient speech-to-text engine that supports widely spoken world languages and few widely spoken African languages.- I helped build their translation engine that supports widely spoken world languages and few widely spoken African languages.- I helped in setting up CI/CD processes.- I actively participated in unit testing, performance testing and code optimizations.



National Youth Service Corps

• 700 & Above Employee

• Programming Instructor

  • Nov 2016 - Oct 2017

  - I worked as programming instructor to students.- I participated in community service to help beneficial infrastructures.- I contributed to the community's educational development by tutoring students on Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics during weekends and holidays. - I worked as programming instructor to students.- I participated in community service to help beneficial infrastructures.- I contributed to the community's educational development by tutoring students on Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics during weekends and holidays.



IMS Computer Training School

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2015 - Oct 2015

  - I helped build the internal inventory and employees management systems.- I helped update their website's user interface.- I help build internal desktop applications. - I helped build the internal inventory and employees management systems.- I helped update their website's user interface.- I help build internal desktop applications.