Work

Senior Web Engineer

Paystack

• Designed and run Sentinel (NestJS), which collects sales leads and sends automated emails for 6+ marketing sites. It is monitored with Datadog and stays up 99.9%+ of the time.
• Leading the move of our marketing platforms to a new setup, designed so visitors automatically get the last working version if an update breaks.
• Made website content load 3x+ faster with Redis.
• Look after the team's servers and infrastructure (Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform) for the DevOps team: setting up, scaling and retiring services.
• Set security rules for how our code is built and shipped, with the Security team: outside tools locked to exact versions, and a clear process for security alerts.
• Mentor engineers by reviewing their code and working alongside them; interview candidates; wrote the team's coding standards.

Contract CTO

Check · software and design agency

Senior Software Engineer (Jun 2020) → Engineering Lead (Jul 2021; part-time from Dec 2021) → Contract CTO, part-time (Jan 2023)

• Smallchops.ng (order finger foods like puff-puff and spring rolls, plus event packages for parties and conferences): designed and built the ordering system, including orders scheduled for the same day or a later date, and an in-house delivery system that sends out orders, assigns riders, tracks deliveries live and prices by area.
• Ran engineering across 10+ client products in fintech, investment, e-commerce and health; led a team of 8; wrote the onboarding docs; as CTO owned technical direction, client delivery and security.
• Chose the tools (Laravel, PostgreSQL, AWS) and made automated tests, automatic deployments (GitHub Actions) and monitoring (CloudWatch) standard on every project.
• Agro Partnerships (by Farmforte): investment platform with 600+ active investors and ₦90M+ invested each cycle; led the fix when payment records didn't match, and added checks to prevent a repeat.
• A global sportswear brand's Nigerian store: led the team and built the online store's back end, connected to Odoo so orders and stock no longer had to be entered by hand.

Software Engineer

ARM Holdings

• Designed and built ARM Pension's customer sign-up platform, serving 200K+ customers and $1M+ in pension schedules.
• Built secure sign-in with two-step verification (JWT, OAuth).
• Built an internal tool (Vue.js, Laravel) to track pension requests, cutting processing time from 12 days to 3.

Design Engineer

Supermart.ng

• Designed and built the new online store and its inventory management system (Figma, Vue.js); the new store helped more visitors buy and finish checkout.

Co-founder & CTO

SabiApp

• Co-founded and built SabiApp, a study platform for university students, selected for the CcHUB accelerator; freelanced building web and mobile apps, payment features and APIs.