Experience

Fincra

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • May 2023 - Present

• • Jun 2021 - Present

  Fincra provides payments infrastructure for fintechs, platforms and global businesses.Key Responsibilities:• Working with the Integrations micro-team (teams are divided into smaller teams consisting 3-5 people). Our primary responsibility is the integration of new partner channels (banks, aggregators, payment gateways, payment service providers, etc.) via APIs into the core system in a secure and scalable manner.• Working on the backend micro-services to add new features, bug fixes or make necessary improvements.• Ensuring system reliability and robustness by writing automated tests for every new feature/code implementation, as well as ensuring that tests are passed before new code is pushed/deployed.• Working with my reporting manager, team members and product team to brainstorm on new features as well as modifications to the system. Ensuring robustness, security and backwards compatibility of our APIs are very crucial to our development process.Achievements:Completed over 25 banks and global channel partner integrations; these integrations enabled the firm to offer a broad range to payment products/services and channels across different countries and continents to our merchants. This led to over 1000 new merchant signups and had a huge positive impact on our revenue. Show less


Code the Dream
• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Engineering Mentor (Volunteer)

  • May 2023 - Present


DataFirst Technologies Ltd

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

• Head of Engineering | Senior Backend Engineer

  • Mar 2021 - Jan 2022

  As the Engineering Lead at Datafirst Technologies, I supervised a team of five talented engineers to deliver four new projects to our enterprise clients. Key Responsibilities: Team Leadership: I provided leadership and mentorship to the team to ensure the growth of engineers on the team. Mentorship was very important as we had two junior engineers on the team. Technical Expertise: I leveraged my deep understanding and experience of software development to design the software architecture for every software project the company worked on. I also created various structures that allowed the engineering team to deliver innovative and robust solutions efficiently . These structures includes: defining and enforcing proper coding standards and best practices(strict use of eslint & tslint), creation of a gitflow process, code review, testing(this includes automated code tests as well as the manual alpha and beta tests) and deployment processes. Software Development: I developed, deployed and managed APIs using NodeJS, TypeScript, NestJS, Redis, PostgreSQL, Sequelize, etc this is then consumed by the front end. Achievements: - Led the successful delivery of four projects to our clients, this had a positive impact on the company’s bottom line. This resulted in a 40% increase in the company revenue. - Mentored and guided team members to achieve professional growth, the junior engineers on the team were promoted to a Mid-level position. Show less



Riby HQ

• Nigeria
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Mar 2020 - May 2021

  • Development of an Enterprise platform that provides seamless collection and aggregation of data for businesses and government institutions. It has on-boarded over five million beneficiaries with a transaction value over $90 million.• Design and development of business logic to support all business rules and requirements captured by the client and product team.• Deployment of APIs to support the high volume of requests from the frontend, mobile, as well as other 3rd party integrations.• Implementation of user-defined access permissions for effective user management.• Performing Unit testing of all endpoints with several test cases per endpoint to cater for different scenarios. This reduced system failure rate by 90%. Show less

• • Nov 2019 - Jun 2020

  Managed the technical team and entire software development process to deliver the following Enterprise products:- Riby Enumerator- Farmzone Digital Agro PlatformMy achievements in building the above platforms include:- Transformation of business requirements into product and technical requirements, the following documents were created: Functional Requirement document, Product Roadmap, User stories.- Creation of technical documents such as architectural diagrams and DFD(data flow diagrams).- Breakdown and assignment of tasks to developers with the help of trello boards.- Overall project supervision, reporting of project progress to relevant stakeholders which includes the CEO and Enterprise Clients/Partners. Show less



Sterling Bank Plc

• Nigeria
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Backend Developer

  • Jun 2020 - Dec 2020

  Worked with the Business Process Automation Department to design, build, test and deploy a Retail Investment platform(a new product offered by the bank). My achievements include: • Transformation of business requirements into technical requirements, created flow diagrams, database structure and an architectural design of the platform. • Software implementation to create backend APIs. • Integration of the backend APIs with the blockchain service and other transactional related services within the bank. Show less



Adaire Nigeria Limited

• Lead Software Developer

  • May 2017 - Nov 2019

  • Design of system architecture for a web application to digitize the Wallet based mobile banking solution of the firm. • Design and implementation of server-side application to create robust and secured API endpoints for the frontend and mobile app using NodeJS, Express and a database provisioned with MongoDB. • Implementation of business logic on the frontend to support various business cases. • Implementation of customer facing portal as a Single Page Application using VueJS. • Deployment of the frontend and backend application on servers with Nginx. • Creation of proper documentation to enable proper API understanding and integration. Show less