Experience

Okra

• Nigeria
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Building highly-reliable and performant systems connecting financial institutions to consumers. Building highly-reliable and performant systems connecting financial institutions to consumers.



Stealth

• United States
• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Co Founder

  • Jan 2022 - Oct 2022

  - helped close pre-seed investments, plus 4x’ed company valuation in 7 months. - managed a team with full-time and part-time engineers to deliver MVP. - MVP disbursed several million Naira to content creators and 2x’ed our user base in 4 months. - helped steer product vision and define company culture. - helped close pre-seed investments, plus 4x’ed company valuation in 7 months. - managed a team with full-time and part-time engineers to deliver MVP. - MVP disbursed several million Naira to content creators and 2x’ed our user base in 4 months. - helped steer product vision and define company culture.



Africa's Talking

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

• VP of Engineering

  • Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

  - helped define a next-generation product suite called Elarian, an engagement platform designed around programmable customer entities and distributed state management.- helped build an internal PaaS platform that focused on deploying containerized workloads.- managed partnership relationships with three African-based cloud providers navigating costs and ensuring alignment with the business.

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Jan 2019 - Dec 2020

  - helped with R&D Lab setup and contributed to five projects across five industries.- managed corporate relationships with Microsoft Azure as the only African private tester of their new Azure Arc platform, securing a 2021 Microsoft Ignite conference feature for Africa's Talking.- championed and recruited UX talent to complement the existing UI team, enabling successful product-led growth.- conceptualized and built an interactive learning platform, powering the company's new developer learning experience. Show less

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2018 - Dec 2019

  - successfully migrated the user management and administrative portals from PHP to Node.- scaled the Full-Stack team from 2 to 10 engineers, driving greater productivity and innovation.- developed a technical onboarding program that optimized new hire and intern efficiency.

• Software Engineer

  • Jun 2016 - Dec 2017

  - created a powerful, web-based phone simulator that allowed end-to-end testing while building on the sandbox environment.- improved developers' workflow by integrating the sandbox environment into the user management portal.- developed SDK specifications standardizing the development and release of SDKs in 5 programming languages.- updated API documentation with new specifications and improved language for clarity.



Digital Rand

• Nairobi, Kenya

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2015 - May 2016

  - Designed and developed a cutting-edge social media tracking and analytics application that empowered industry-leading companies, including Serena Hotels, to launch effective marketing campaigns, increasing brand awareness and engagement. - Designed and developed a cutting-edge social media tracking and analytics application that empowered industry-leading companies, including Serena Hotels, to launch effective marketing campaigns, increasing brand awareness and engagement.