Professional Experience

Building scalable systems for leading FinTech

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2022 - Present

2+ years • Lagos, Nigeria

Current

→ Architected and implemented event-driven microservices powering Union360, Corporate Banking, and Open Banking services handling millions of customers
→ Designed CQRS-style workflows and integration event pipelines to decouple services and reduce cross-system dependencies
→ Built highly available APIs facilitating internal and external payment flows, customer onboarding, and transaction processing

→ Led migration of key services to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), optimizing autoscaling, rolling updates, and reliability
→ Containerized multiple legacy modules and introduced GitOps workflows for safer, predictable deployments
→ Reduced deployment time by 40% and improved overall platform stability through pipeline improvements and IaC (Terraform)

→ Implemented OpenTelemetry tracing across the microservice ecosystem to provide full request lifecycle visibility
→ Built Grafana dashboards visualizing latency, throughput, error rates, and distributed traces for core banking services
→ Integrated Loki for centralized log aggregation and improved incident detection and root-cause analysis
→ Reduced MTTR for production issues by 35%

→ Mentored junior developers, introduced code quality standards, and led engineering best-practice adoption across teams
→ Oversaw several enterprise integrations with regulatory bodies, payment partners, and third-party financial providers
→ Ensured compliance, security-by-design, and adherence to PCI-level standards for all backend components

.NET Core C# AKS Docker Azure Service Bus Azure DevOps Terraform OpenTelemetry Grafana Loki Oracle SQL Server

Jan 2019 - Jul 2022

3.5 years • Lagos, Nigeria

→ Built and maintained scalable backend services powering FairMoney's digital banking, lending, and payments platforms
→ Implemented microservice components for wallet operations, loan disbursements, transaction processing, and customer risk evaluation
→ Designed APIs and internal services supporting market expansion across multiple African regions

→ Implemented message-driven workflows using Azure Service Bus and AWS SQS, enabling reliable asynchronous processing of financial events
→ Improved system resilience by introducing retry policies, dead-letter handling, and structured logging
→ Contributed to decoupling monolithic flows into standalone microservices to improve system maintainability

→ Deployed and managed services on Azure App Service, then collaborated on a migration initiative toward containerization and Kubernetes adoption
→ Introduced structured logging, performance monitoring, and partial OpenTelemetry instrumentation for key services
→ Developed dashboards and alerts to monitor customer onboarding funnels, transaction success rates, and service latency

.NET Core C# Azure App Services Azure SQL Azure DevOps AWS SQS OpenTelemetry Redis SQL Server

35%

MTTR Reduced

40%

Deploy Speed

99%

System Uptime

Years Exp

100

Millions Served