Raymond Tukpe
Chief Technology Officer at Convoy (YC W22)- Claim this Profile
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Convoy (YC W22)
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Technology Officer
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Dec 2021 - Present
Building the future of industry grade webhooks at https://getconvoy.io Building the future of industry grade webhooks at https://getconvoy.io
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Morressier
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Germany
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
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Sterling Bank Plc
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Nigeria
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Jan 2020 - May 2021
- Managed a team of Frontend, Backend and Mobile Engineers charged with developing efficient financial systems.- Established industry-standard agile practices and processes including but not limited to conducting peer code reviews, adoption of unified versioning for all products, and adoption of CI/CD including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.- Built, tested and deployed scalable and modular backend, mobile (android and iOS) applications, web clients.- Designed and implemented a service-oriented (using DDD and Micro-services) platform using NodeJs/TypeScript, Kubernetes (AKS) and other Cloud-Native tools. - Built backend services on top of the infrastructure which is integrated to multiple 3rd party providers and supports multiple client applications and other businesses. Show less
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May 2019 - Dec 2020
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Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
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gomoney
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Nigeria
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Engineering
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Apr 2019 - May 2021
gomoney is a fully digital bank that provides financial services through its Android and iOS platforms, which gives its customers more transparency into their finances and provides them with a modern banking experience. - Built a core banking application on AKS and Kubernetes using DDD and Micro-services - Grew the engineering team from 3 to 20 people (6x) in 18 months. - Grew the daily active users by 3x and the revenue by 10x (year on year growth) by focusing on platform stability and regularly releasing application updates and new features. - Automated the KYC data collection flow which reduced the “signup-to-first-transaction” churn rate by 20%. - Built a transaction enrichment pipeline that tags transactions appropriately using recognised merchants. - Automated debit card request and delivery process, which increased retention rate by 10%. - Built a B2B version of our core banking application that enabled other businesses to leverage our platform’s feature set and reliability via APIs Show less
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Comflo Inc
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Canada
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International Trade and Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
Comflo is a P2P platform that automates commodity trading by leveraging the blockchain. Worked closely with the founder to scope out the product’s features and created a technical requirements document - Built a platform that digitized commodity trading - Created a RESTful API server around a proprietary blockchain library. - Wrote test cases against all the relevant parts of the API server. Comflo is a P2P platform that automates commodity trading by leveraging the blockchain. Worked closely with the founder to scope out the product’s features and created a technical requirements document - Built a platform that digitized commodity trading - Created a RESTful API server around a proprietary blockchain library. - Wrote test cases against all the relevant parts of the API server.
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Pacent Technologies
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Nigeria
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Developer
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Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
- Built an Edufund platform for school alumni and a real-time chat android app, which enables alumni of schools to connect with old classmates. - Built the backend service using NodeJS/Javascript - Built the android client using Java. - Setup a CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI and AWS. - Built an Edufund platform for school alumni and a real-time chat android app, which enables alumni of schools to connect with old classmates. - Built the backend service using NodeJS/Javascript - Built the android client using Java. - Setup a CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI and AWS.
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Maliyo Games
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Victoria island, Lagos
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Software Engineer
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Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Collaborated with a team of artists and content creators to create an android mobile game. I was responsible for building the game mechanics, adding art and text assets to the game. Collaborated with a team of artists and content creators to create an android mobile game. I was responsible for building the game mechanics, adding art and text assets to the game.
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Exolve Technologies
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Lagos, Nigeria
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Junior Software Engineer
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Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Worked with the team lead to develop various android and backend applications for the company’s clients using Java and C#. Worked with the team lead to develop various android and backend applications for the company’s clients using Java and C#.
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Gamsole
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Computer Games
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Junior Software Engineer
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Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Worked with the team lead to create casual mobile 2D games for the Windows Phone and Android platforms using Unity3D and C#. Worked with the team lead to create casual mobile 2D games for the Windows Phone and Android platforms using Unity3D and C#.
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Volunteer
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Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Writing a curriculum on 2D and 3D graphic design for middle school children Writing a curriculum on 2D and 3D graphic design for middle school children
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Education
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University of Lagos
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science