Lagos State, Nigeria
Currently serving as Associate Vice President of Engineering at Cowrywise, I focus on owning technical direction, balancing system reliability, and delivering scalable solutions. I collaborate with product and business leaders to align technical strategies with organizational goals while driving platform scalability and engineering standards. With a Bachelor’s in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the University of Lagos and an ongoing Master’s in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology, I bring expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and engineering management. I am motivated by building resilient systems that align with business goals and mentoring engineering teams to foster a strong technical culture.
- Own engineering execution and technical direction across multiple teams, balancing delivery, system reliability, and long-term architecture. - Partner with product and business leadership to translate company goals into technical strategy and execution plans. - Stay hands-on with system design, architecture reviews, and critical technical decisions in high-impact areas. - Drive improvements in platform scalability, operational excellence, and engineering standards. - Mentor engineering leads and senior engineers, building leadership depth and a strong engineering culture.
- Led the design, development, and operation of backend services and cloud infrastructure on AWS, supporting mission-critical, customer-facing systems. - Architected and evolved scalable, highly available systems to handle growing traffic and product expansion, with a focus on reliability, performance, and cost efficiency. - Built and operated containerized deployment workflows, improving deployment consistency, operational visibility, and time-to-release. - Stayed hands-on with system design, production debugging, and performance optimization while guiding architectural decisions across teams. - Established engineering best practices through code reviews, technical mentorship, and architectural guidance, raising overall code quality and operational standards. - Authored and maintained technical documentation and runbooks, improving onboarding, incident response, and knowledge sharing. - Partnered with product, data, and business stakeholders to deliver infrastructure and platform initiatives on time and aligned with business goals.
Cowrywise is a financial technology company digitizing the investment management industry in Africa and democratizing access to savings and investment products for the growing population of underserved African middle class and millennials. With over 500,000 users, we are building digital savings and investing culture for the next generation of wealthy Africans. Cowrywise is a Y Combinator company and the first Nigerian company to be accepted into Catalyst Fund program, backed by JP Morgan and UKAID. - Built high-quality software products with Python. - Wrote technical specifications and EDDs for new features and optimizations on the backend. - Performed deployment, management and Infrastructure tasks - Implemented an in-house framework for integrating with third-party libraries. Fully featured with dependency management and robust logging. - Handled efforts to optimize asynchronous processes, and performed CPU and memory profiling of such processes. - Leading the backend development of Embed API.
- Developed and maintained microservices using Golang and Django. - Wrote technical specifications and project documentation. - Deployed and managed microservices using containerization tools such as docker and AWS ECS - Worked on a team to deliver high-quality and reliable software for financial services - Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and QA
- Migrated some services from Python to Golang Microservice. - Built Microservices using Golang, gRPC, protobuf and deployed them on CaaS (Container as a Service) platforms like AWS ECS - Wrote serverless functions using Kubeless.
Energy360 Africa is a data-centric technology solutions company leading technological innovations for the downstream Oil and Gas sector in Nigeria and Africa. - Led the development of Smarteye application, a multi-million naira enterprise B2B solution that provides remote monitoring and data insight using IoT devices into storage tanks at retail Oil and Gas stations. - Handled CI/CD for Smarteye using Jenkins, and maintained the app on AWS. - Implemented a robust event-driven approach to the development of Smarteye. - Maintained MySQL DB and improved read/write performance of queries on tables with >10million rows.
Built a robust IoT solution to monitor fuel level in Storage tanks at retail Oil and Gas stations. - Developed integration schematics and simulations for Microcontrollers (Arduino, NXP boards). - Wrote custom python and bash scripts on the RaspberryPI board to control legacy hardware devices. - Implemented custom device heartbeat functionality to simulate device online status. - Implemented software triggered OTA updates and remote configuration using custom Python and bash scripts on RaspberryPI - Wrote custom systemd daemon services on RaspbianOS (a fork of Debian)