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Engineering across products, systems, and teams.

600K+

Company-reported active users · FairMoney Business

Contributed React Native features for merchant lending, onboarding, KYC, and payments in the Business app.

FairMoney public figure · Oct 2026 ↗

200+

Field agents · FairMoney operations

Built tools for merchant visits, follow-ups, inventory, and terminal-to-agent workflows.

15,000+

Merchants · Crowdforce payment platforms

Led four frontend engineers delivering a merchant portal, alongside payment and reporting interfaces.

Professional experience

8 entries

February 2023 - Present

Software Engineer

Fairmoney Microfinance Bank

Remote, Lagos

I work on web and mobile systems that power agent operations, merchant banking, lending, KYC, terminal management, and sales workflows.

Selected contributions
  • Build and maintain fintech products used by merchants, field agents, and internal operations teams.
  • Built tools that help 200+ field agents manage merchant visits, follow-ups, inventory, and more than 5,000 daily merchant interactions.
  • Delivered dashboards and internal platforms that help teams monitor 10,000+ PoS terminals, merchant performance, stock levels, and daily transactions.
  • Used RTK Query for data fetching and caching, with Jest and React Testing Library covering production frontend behavior.
  • Shipped mobile and web features for merchant loan applications, onboarding, KYC, payments, transfers, guarantors, terminal requests, and account upgrades.
  • Implemented secure authentication and request handling, including token and session management, input validation, XSS and CSRF protections, encryption, decryption, and safer error behavior.
  • Helped make production codebases AI-ready with clearer repository guidance and reusable engineering conventions, connected Slack and Jira context through MCP integrations, and automated parts of Gitflow and deployment preparation.
  • Improved frontend performance through code splitting, bundle optimization, rendering improvements, and caching, including for staff working with slower network connections.
  • Introduced a modular library of 50+ reusable UI components with documentation and examples.
  • Mentor junior engineers through pairing, code reviews, and design discussions.

March 2024 - June 2024

Frontend Blockchain Engineer

TiFi

Remote

Built a DeFi experience on BNB Chain around lending, liquidity pools, swaps, and staking.

Selected contributions
  • Implemented Ethers.js flows for contract reads, signed transactions, and receipts.
  • Added MetaMask, Trust Wallet, and Binance Chain Wallet support with account- and network-aware UX.
  • Designed transaction-state and history views that translated on-chain events into clear swap, lending, and staking activity.

2023 - Present

Frontend Mentor → CTO / Program Coordinator

Uptick Talent

Started with hands-on mentorship and grew into technical and program leadership for a talent community.

Selected contributions
  • Mentored 20+ frontend engineers through project work, code reviews, career guidance, and interview preparation.
  • Helped scope and deliver client projects while balancing timelines, constraints, and technical choices.
  • Shaped curriculum and technical strategy around skills hiring managers value.
  • Coordinated contributors, expectations, and delivery for mentees and partners.

September 2024 - December 2024

Open Source Software Engineer - MLH Fellowship

Major League Hacking / Meta Lexical

Remote

Contributed to Meta's Lexical rich-text editor and its large-scale React ecosystem.

Selected contributions
  • Documented gaps in existing guides and exposed missing classes in Lexical's default exports.
  • Worked within established review and release processes, improving changes based on maintainer feedback.

February 2021 - February 2023

Software Engineer

Crowdforce

Remote, Abuja

Worked on payment, merchant banking, field-agent, and data-collection products used by distributed operations teams.

Selected contributions
  • Maintained and extended Gateforce, Merchant Portal, Payforce App, and Sales Dashboard.
  • Led four frontend engineers taking a merchant portal from idea to production.
  • Used RTK Query for frontend data fetching and caching, with Jest and React Testing Library covering business and merchant-facing interfaces.
  • Implemented secure authentication, token and session handling, input validation, and practical XSS and CSRF protections across payment and merchant products.
  • Contributed to platforms that supported 15,000+ merchants across payment, reporting, and merchant-management workflows.
  • Built analytics and reporting views that helped teams understand merchant activity and 50,000+ daily transaction operations.
  • Improved performance through code splitting, lazy loading, bundle optimization, rendering improvements, and caching for users across varied network conditions.
  • Standardized shared frontend components and delivery workflows.

June 2020 - February 2021

Software Engineer Intern - Learnable Program

Genesys Tech Hub

Enugu, Nigeria

Completed the Learnable software-development and leadership program through real product work.

Selected contributions
  • Collaborated on Cerebrum, an online learning platform, with designers and backend engineers.
  • Implemented authentication, password reset, student and tutor dashboards, and payment integrations.
  • Practiced cross-functional teamwork and communicating tradeoffs beyond code.

November 2018 - April 2020

Web Developer and IT Personnel

Century Gateways Technologies

Ado Ekiti, Nigeria

Worked across web development, internal tools, training, and IT support.

Selected contributions
  • Built and deployed the company website and client-facing tools.
  • Contributed to a PHP-based Point of Sale and inventory system for a warehouse.
  • Trained students in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Java.
  • Handled hardware procurement and day-to-day IT operations.

November 2016 - December 2017

Hardware Repairs and PC Maintenance Engineer

Armstrong Computers

Ishiagu, Nigeria

Started close to the metal, working with physical machines, operating systems, and networks.

Selected contributions
  • Diagnosed and repaired hardware faults for systems used by small businesses.
  • Installed Windows and Linux, handled BIOS configuration, and configured disk partitions.
  • Troubleshot networking and connectivity issues.
  • Performed preventive maintenance, data recovery, and backups.

Contracts & freelance

4 entries

December 2025 - March 2026

Engineering Lead, representing Uptick Talent

Jooav

Remote, Lagos

Represented Uptick Talent on a client contract, providing technical leadership for Jooav Inventory, a mobile-first ERP for African FMCG retailers.

Selected contributions
  • Worked hands-on across the ERP frontend and backend.
  • Built the admin frontend with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, TanStack Query, Axios, Jest, and React Testing Library.
  • Connected the frontend to REST APIs with query caching, mutations, cache invalidation, authentication, loading states, and error handling.
  • Contributed to the NestJS backend using Prisma/PostgreSQL and Redis.
  • Worked with founders to shape a roadmap around stock tracking, manufacturer restocking, and order visibility.
  • Guided and implemented architecture across inventory, product administration, marketplace, and order-tracking flows.
  • Reviewed frontend and backend designs and code, unblocking engineers on product and business-logic edge cases.
  • Introduced more structure to scoping, testing, rollout, and releases.

February 2022 - July 2022

Lead Frontend Engineer

Stakecut

Remote, Lagos

Built the frontend for an affiliate marketplace, connecting vendor product management, affiliate tracking, and payments.

Selected contributions
  • Contributed to the product launch; the platform reached 10,000 users within its first two weeks.
  • Led frontend technical direction, reviewed code, and coordinated delivery.
  • Built vendor dashboards for managing products, with search and filtering, plus affiliate-link generation and commission tracking.
  • Integrated Stripe and Flutterwave into the frontend payment flows.
  • Created a shared UI component library and set up CI/CD for deployment.

April 2024 - June 2024 · Three-month contract

Frontend Engineer

Serlzo

Improved an existing application through UI cleanup, responsive layouts, and feature integrations.

Selected contributions
  • Refined existing UI and improved responsiveness across screen sizes.
  • Worked on homepage animation and integrated email and link-in-bio features.

November 2025 - April 2026 · Six-month contract

Frontend Engineer

Boxless - GidiGroove

Worked on event discovery and ticketing experiences, including a ticket-verification progressive web app (PWA).

Selected contributions
  • Worked on flows for discovering and purchasing events, experiences, airport transfers, and eSIM services.
  • Worked on a PWA for ticket verification.

Protocol training

2 entries

July 2026 - October 2026

Bitcoin & Lightning

The Buidl — Rust for Bitcoin

Built Bitcoin tools in Rust spanning transaction parsing, wallet development, Bitcoin Core RPC, and Lightning invoice validation.

Selected contributions
  • The program covers Bitcoin fundamentals, transaction construction, wallet and key management, Lightning, and open-source development workflows.
  • Built Mufasa, a descriptor-based Bitcoin wallet with local persistence, node synchronization, signing, and broadcast; manually validated the workflow against a Polar-managed regtest node.
  • Built a modular Bitcoin Core RPC CLI with configuration, wallet commands, and structured error handling.
  • Built a Rust transaction decoder with a reusable parsing library and a command-line interface.
  • Built a BOLT11 invoice decoder with a reusable Rust library, an Axum API, a terminal client, and a Next.js web interface.
  • Connected protocol parsing and validation to usable developer and product interfaces.

January 2026 - April 2026

Protocol Engineering Intern - Rust Bootcamp

Web3Bridge

Developed a strong foundation in Rust, backend engineering, and Ethereum execution concepts. Built concurrent servers, async APIs, and caching systems, alongside a simplified EVM for bytecode execution, stack operations, and contract storage.

Selected contributions
  • Applied Rust foundations through command-line tools and server implementations, connecting language concepts to systems behavior.
  • Built asynchronous backend APIs in Rust with Axum and Tokio, PostgreSQL persistence through SQLx, and application logging with tracing.
  • Knowledge of containerized backend services and observability, including OpenTelemetry instrumentation and Prometheus metrics collection.
  • Implemented a Redis-style server to explore backend caching and state management.
  • Implemented a simplified EVM execution loop with stack instructions and storage reads and writes, including PUSH, POP, ADD, SUB, SSTORE, and SLOAD.