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Engineering Lead & Senior Frontend Engineer.Six years building fintech infrastructure, AI-powered platforms and enterprise-scale apps, with a focus on AI-assisted engineering.

Selected Works 💼

A collection of platforms enabling financial inclusion and digital collaboration.

01
React Native
Next.js
Spotify API

Eventheave 🎶

Find, create and manage events, then buy, sell, share or transfer tickets. Multi-currency payments, calendar reminders and a native Spotify integration for event playlists.

02
Next.js
React Native
TypeScript

Eventspad 🎟️

Event & Guest Management Platform. Plan events, manage guests, collect RSVPs, issue secure tickets, and check in attendees.

03
Next.js
TypeScript
Tailwind

Crowdr 🤝

Crowdfunding platform revolutionizing fundraising in Nigeria with international payment integration.

04
Next.js
TypeScript
Tailwind

Afropolitan 🌍

Network of the best of what Africa has to offer, curated for you.

05
Next.js
TypeScript

Afropass

Your digital passport to the Afropolitan nation.

06
Next.js
TypeScript

Convo

1:1 guidance from industry leaders who’ve walked the path before you

07
React
TypeScript

Legacy

Premium dating platform for high-net-worth Africans.

08
React
TypeScript

Strata

Property management solution.

09
React
TypeScript

PayInvert

Financial services platform.

010
React
TypeScript

SaySwitch Merchant

Merchant management dashboard.

011
React
Redux
TypeScript

ITEX Pay

Comprehensive payment platform enabling merchants to send and receive money.

012
React
TypeScript
WebSockets

Riddey

Collaborative digital whiteboard allowing real-time user collaboration.

Open Source 📦

Tools and libraries built for the developer community.

01
Shell
TypeScript
CLI

react-prune ✂️

Lightweight CLI tool that surfaces unused files and dependencies in React/Next.js projects.

Mobile Apps

Native experiences built for performance and scale.

🎶

Eventheave

Events and tickets in your pocket, with Spotify built in.

App Store
⚡

Zap Exchange

Fast crypto exchange platform.

App Store
📱

Payvice Avantus

Financial services and payments.

App Store

Work Experience

May 2023 - October 2026

Crowdr 🤝

CTO / Engineering Lead

Lagos, Nigeria (remote)

  • ✦Scaled Crowdr to over ₦1 billion in donations and 50,000+ users, improving conversion rates by 35% and reducing transaction failures by 80%.
  • ✦Led development of Nigeria's first comprehensive international payment integration using Apple Pay, enabling seamless cross-border donations.
  • ✦Built enterprise-grade security with multi-layered KYC verification and real-time fraud detection, reducing fraudulent accounts by 95%.
  • ✦Established and scaled the engineering function, and introduced AI-assisted development across the team to define features, draft tests and speed up reviews.
February 2024 - August 2026

Afropolitan 🌍

Founding / Lead Frontend Engineer

San Francisco, California (remote)

  • ✦Resolved critical performance and stability issues in Afropass (flagship product), contributing to $100,000 in revenue within 18 months of launch.
  • ✦Supported 11,700+ users and 10,780 successful ticket validations across cities including San Francisco and Lagos.
  • ✦Built Legacy, a premium dating platform for high-net-worth Africans, achieving 1,000+ sign-ups in 6 months.
  • ✦Developed Convo, a mentor–mentee platform that facilitated 223 sessions between 101 mentors and mentees, generating over $40,607 in revenue.
January 2023 - August 2024

Strata Advisory

Lead Frontend Engineer

Lagos, Nigeria

  • ✦Built and maintained a reconciliation platform used by MTN Nigeria, Flutterwave, and other enterprise clients managing millions of quarterly transactions.
  • ✦Led a cross-functional frontend team of 4 engineers, reporting directly to the CTO and owning core UI, dashboard systems and platform performance.
  • ✦Authored 521+ verified commits to the core UI codebase.
  • ✦Migrated the web exchange from Create React App to Vite, reducing build time by 50% and initial load time from 10 seconds to 3 seconds.
March 2021 - Feb 2023

Zijela 🏧

Senior Frontend Engineer

Lagos, Nigeria

  • ✦Led frontend design and development of Payinvert and SaySwitch, fintech platforms enabling online payment collection and digital payment solutions.
  • ✦Designed and built the entire frontend architecture, including merchant and admin dashboards, checkout flow, website and payment links.
  • ✦Built merchant and agent dashboards for POS systems and web applications, enabling hundreds of merchants to process thousands of monthly transactions.
  • ✦Developed the SaySwitch dashboard and Agency Banking Service end to end, onboarding 5,000+ agents.

Insights &
Features

THISDAYLIVE

How Nigeria Can Lead Africa’s Global Fintech Integration

A deep dive into the strategies needed for Nigeria to position itself as a central hub for African fintech.

Independent Newspaper Nigeria

Why Trust, Not Technology, Will Define Africa’s Fintech Revolution

Discussing the critical role of trust and digital identity in shaping the future of financial technology in Africa.

Business Day

Crowdr: Revolutionizing Nigeria's Crowdfunding Landscape

Feature on Crowdr's impact on fundraising and volunteering opportunities in the Nigerian market.

SME100 Africa

25 Under 25 Awards Nomination

Nominated for the prestigious 25 Under 25 Awards in the Technology category.

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