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Nairobi County, Kenya

- Kicked off core development of Helios a USD Banking as a service Platform.- Influenced the use of new tools for internal telemetry and monitoring.- Worked with my colleagues to architect how all existing and new product platforms work together collectively and independently to enhance service offerings.- Influenced the use of new tools to ensure marketing and sales can stay agile, while product development can continue to stay fluid without cross-team interruptions.

I worked as a Solutions architect to design a new-age digital banking platform that fits Moni Africa/Rank Capital's use case and future-forward expansion.- Earned over $3,000 in cash as gift tokens for my good works outlined below :)- Architected Moni 2.0 to achieve the following: few direct dependency cycles between domain services, service ownership by each engineering team member, language agnostic implementation, unified API contracts using Protocol buffers, enhancing… Show more I worked as a Solutions architect to design a new-age digital banking platform that fits Moni Africa/Rank Capital's use case and future-forward expansion.- Earned over $3,000 in cash as gift tokens for my good works outlined below :)- Architected Moni 2.0 to achieve the following: few direct dependency cycles between domain services, service ownership by each engineering team member, language agnostic implementation, unified API contracts using Protocol buffers, enhancing product capabilities, team collaboration, development speed and platform scalability.- Led the team towards adopting distributed systems design and assisted each party where necessary.- Implemented a shared library for logging and telemetry used by all services within my domain that were written in Go and documented the same model for replication in other programming languages by my colleagues.- Utilised strong engineering practices to drive successful execution of business goals.Collaborated with stakeholders to align technology solutions with strategic business objectives. Show less

- Worked with the team to handpick our tech stack ranging from: GraphQL, Node.JS and ReactJS to solve for development speed and team velocity as well as what works for the MVP.- Prepared Spirēs infrastructure to drive product success.- Led engineering and translated business requirement into development deliverables, especially with the FeedJet Widget.- Aligned technology strategy with business objectives, resulting in a customer-centric solution.

Lagos, Nigeria

- Transformed Eyowo, a digital bank by Softcom, into a fully distributed digital banking platform by introducing the team to Kubernetes, nats.io, and other CNCF toolchain to enhance developer productivity as well as platform stability, this activity influenced other teams on different product which caused an organisation wide shift towards cloud native compatibility and standards.- Led the engineering effort with seasoned and reputable colleagues toward an event-driven distributed… Show more - Transformed Eyowo, a digital bank by Softcom, into a fully distributed digital banking platform by introducing the team to Kubernetes, nats.io, and other CNCF toolchain to enhance developer productivity as well as platform stability, this activity influenced other teams on different product which caused an organisation wide shift towards cloud native compatibility and standards.- Led the engineering effort with seasoned and reputable colleagues toward an event-driven distributed system by teaching the concept of thinking in events, cause and effects, all resulting in an 80% increase in system stability, speed and reduced server resource consumption.- Introduced asynchronous KYC & AML systems check, leveraged SmileID, NIBSS BVN and a few other 3rd party provider APIs for the necessary KYC & AML implementation.- Built a shared library for telemetry and that was used for telemetry in all services, allowing for proper monitoring and observability reports in Elastic's Kibana.- Worked with DevOps to setup nats.io, taught the team how to use nats.io and implemented wrapper libraries for nats.io in Go and Node.js, this library was used to enhance inter-service communications via events, thus enabling us to do more with less.- Demonstrated technical leadership both in and out of the office.- Fostered learning and growth by introducing new practices to the team. Practices such as system designs, sequence diagramming, architecture diagrams and workflows designs for specific features that requires documentation of any sort.- Built a bank, Eyowo X (https://eyowo.com). Show less

London, England, United Kingdom

- Designed and architected a scalable microservices infrastructure for Roava at FCMB UK Limited.- Built the KYC services in Go, and integrated Onfido APIs and Comply Advantage APIs for asynchronous KYC and AML checks.- Created an internal service and database for customer due diligence records which aggregated KYC & AML check results, constant tracking of customer's legal credentials and event triggers when re-issuance is requested according to the laws of different government… Show more - Designed and architected a scalable microservices infrastructure for Roava at FCMB UK Limited.- Built the KYC services in Go, and integrated Onfido APIs and Comply Advantage APIs for asynchronous KYC and AML checks.- Created an internal service and database for customer due diligence records which aggregated KYC & AML check results, constant tracking of customer's legal credentials and event triggers when re-issuance is requested according to the laws of different government jurisdiction.- Prepared GraphQL & Protobuf API Schema for microservices and API gateway in Roava.- Created a library for seamless sync and async communication between services using event streams.- Contributed to the open-source community by developing a library that simplifies working with Apache Pulsar. Show less

Lagos, Nigeria

- Developed client service solutions and collaborated with external stakeholders to ensure successful project completion.- Created internal tools to streamline product development, both for in-house use and client services. ( For example: SSMLib, written in Java programming language as a headless application that interacts with NIBSS and can be used in all nodejs microservices for data encryption over the wire. )- Designed and developed NFS Maps, a comprehensive analytics… Show more - Developed client service solutions and collaborated with external stakeholders to ensure successful project completion.- Created internal tools to streamline product development, both for in-house use and client services. ( For example: SSMLib, written in Java programming language as a headless application that interacts with NIBSS and can be used in all nodejs microservices for data encryption over the wire. )- Designed and developed NFS Maps, a comprehensive analytics platform for financial transactions in Nigeria, currently used by CBN and NIBSS.- Coordinated with teams to design and build the NIBSS BVN Mobile Enrolment Platform, facilitating easy BVN data capture for Nigerians and promoting financial inclusion.- Designed a mobile app servicer to automate app build and deployment for the NIBSS BVN SDK Mobile Enrolment Platform.- Led the HelpNow initiative during the Covid-19 pandemic, positively impacting over 2 million lives through technology solutions.- Worked with the Moonshot team, an R&D department arm of Softcom to roll out experimental initiatives such as building a custom wireless hardware fingerprint scanner that communicates via BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy ) and transmit packets over bluetooth. ( Experimented with Kojak scanners as our model for the custom build )And the list goes on... (too much to fit this space) Show less

2Nd Floor, The Garnet Building, Lekki - Epe Express Road, Lekki 101245, Nigeria

- Developed Point of Sales software using Electron for various industries including Laundromats, retail stores, and virtual kitchens.- Built wifi call mobile app with react native and integrated a VoIP service using 3rd party SOAP API. ( See https://mytalkie.net )- Leveraged on Cordova, Vue.js and Onsen UI2 for mobile, and php codeigniter to build Olivia, a mobile app and platform for forms collection, an alternative to gocanva, to enable field agents with data capture & survey… Show more - Developed Point of Sales software using Electron for various industries including Laundromats, retail stores, and virtual kitchens.- Built wifi call mobile app with react native and integrated a VoIP service using 3rd party SOAP API. ( See https://mytalkie.net )- Leveraged on Cordova, Vue.js and Onsen UI2 for mobile, and php codeigniter to build Olivia, a mobile app and platform for forms collection, an alternative to gocanva, to enable field agents with data capture & survey for Coca-Cola/NBC in Lagos, Nigeria and Mauritius.- Created hostel automation and retail point of sale software for a portfolio project from Africa Venture Partners using PHP, Vue.js, Electron(for POS) and ensured embedded systems communications with physical access management devices on site.- Trained junior developers on web development fundamentals to completing client services project.Conducted business analysis to understand client requirements and optimize solutions for project success.And the list goes on... (too much to fill this space) Show less

- Enhanced product/project understanding by actively participating in the UI/UX process.- Collaborated with internal teams to optimize work output and achieve project deadlines.- Took the lead in frontend development for all client services projects.

Lagos, Nigeria

A fast growing IT and network company churning out innovative products and solutions tailored to the clients' specifics. The drive behind the establishment of this company is to develop path-breaking campus solutions that consolidate the interaction between students and lecturers which birthed klasconnect - a proprietary learning management application of the company aimed at creating an agile learning ecosystem across campusesin Nigeria and Sub Saharan Africa.

Mccarthy, Obalende. Lagos, Nigeria

- Supported the IT engineering team in various tasks, contributing to the successful implementation of internal systems stability.- Played a key role in setting up and maintaining the CBT examination center, ensuring smooth operation and efficient networking.- Assisted in planning and executing initiatives related to network infrastructure development.

- Applied design thinking principles to drive innovation in project development.- Developed enterprise apps in AngularJS and NodeJS, enhancing technical skills within the team.- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver successful projects for external clients.- Implemented custom application code to enhance functionality and user experience on WordPress websites and themes.

- Collected and recorded customer information for Airtel's KYC exercise.- Collaborated with team members to cover various locations in Lagos, Nigeria.- Ensured accurate data capture and synchronization to the online repository on a daily basis.