Matt Adesanya

CTO

Netherlands16 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 21+ years of IT industry experience.
  • Expert in building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
  • Proven track record in fintech and payments engineering.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS engineering leader with extensive experience in team management and system architecture.

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Software DevelopmentSystems AnalysisJavaPHPMySQLInformixTelecommunicationsRuby on RailsC++PythonCUser Interface DesignHTML 5CSS3JavaScript

About

I deliver value by building high-performing engineering teams, designing scalable systems, and solving complex technical and organizational challenges. Built and led engineering teams in fast-paced environments, including serving as Founding Engineering Manager at Mollie’s In-Person Payments team. Held leadership roles across multiple organizations, including CTO at Zone Tech Park, Engineering Manager at Meta, Andela, and YoungCapital. Strong focus on: • Engineering team design and scaling • System architecture and technical strategy • Improving engineering culture, processes, and productivity • Cross-functional collaboration and product delivery Background includes hands-on software engineering with experience across multiple programming languages and platforms, evolving into leadership roles focused on impact at scale. 21+ years of working experience in the IT industry 8+ years of managing teams Experience across fintech, payments, and platform engineering

Experience

16 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Meta

Software Engineering Manager

Sep 2025Feb 2026 · 5 mos · Hybrid

Mollie

Engineering Manager, In-Person Payments

Jul 2022Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Amsterdam Area · Hybrid

Youngcapital

Engineering Manager

Dec 2019Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Hoofddorp, North Holland Province, Netherlands

Zone tech park

CTO

Jun 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Lagos, Nigeria

  • Zone Tech Park, also known as ZTP is the technology side of the renowned Workforcegroup.
  • At ZTP, we help founders (and clients) ship quality products to the market at great speed.
  • We built outwork.ng, peerlesslms.com and alldayhr.com, all world class products following best Software Engineering practices all the way.
  • We leveraged our network of experienced senior engineers and designers to build powerful web and mobile applications for clients looking to solve diverse problems as well.
  • Furthermore, with over 200+ corporate clients ranging from Africa’s biggest Banks, Telcos, etc; We leveraged our strong business relationships to help founders skip bottlenecks and scale their startups. Simply put, at Zone Tech Park, we help you engineer visible traction for your products.

Workforce group

CTO

Mar 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Lagos, Nigeria

  • Founded in 2004, Workforce Group is a consulting company uniquely positioned to assist businesses in their quest to create sustainable value for their customers and stakeholders. Leveraging cross industry and cross functional expertise, Workforce Group partners with clients to advance their businesses by providing the people and solutions that raise organisation’s performance and serve their long term objectives through five major strategic business units - Advisory, Selection, Development, Outsourcing and Technology
  • Workforce Group serves private and public sector organisations in Nigeria and the West African Sub-region across various industry sectors, proffering high value solutions that deliver superior performance.

Andela

2 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Jun 2016Oct 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Andela is a global talent accelerator that produces world class developers and connects them with top employers. Backed by the founders of companies like Facebook, Ebay, and AOL, We have built one of the most selective academic experiences in the world, with an acceptance rate below 1%.
  • In my role as a lead software engineer, I managed a team of software engineers in an agile environment. We followed software engineering principles, created and sought the best practices in the industry in order to create very useful apps to support Andela's business needs.
  • I was responsible for overall planning, execution and success of complex technical projects, from working with the product owners conceptualising the product, to gathering requirements, designing and finally deploying to production.
  • I did not take testing lightly and I adopted various automations and pipelining methods to fast track integration and deployment.

Technical Trainer

May 2015May 2016 · 1 yr

  • Andela develops a corps of high quality technology talent across the African continent that will drive the current and future phases of tech-enabled growth around the world.
  • As a technical trainer, I ran bootcamps, collected necessary data, experimented with various training techniques, while adopting external methods that work. I managed Android learning, developed the Android curriculum, and trained over 20 Android developers across Lagos, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya.

Huawei technologies

Field Systems Engineer

Oct 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria

  • Huawei is multinational company and one of the largest telecommunication equipment manufacturers in the world.
  • While working as a Field Systems Engineer, I managed the Online Charging System(OCS) of the Etisalat Network. My work role included taking real time logs on different nodes in order to troubleshoot problems escalated from the front-end engineers, preparing scope of work and implementing changes on the OCS. I wrote Shell and Perl Scripts to automate repeating tasks.
  • I also coordinated knowledge sharing sessions within my team.

Interswitch group

NYSC Member/Software Developer

Apr 2012Feb 2013 · 10 mos · (SmartGov.CRSG), Calabar, Nigeria

  • Smartgov.CRS is a public-­private partnership between Interswitch Group and Cross River State Government to provide identity and card services to residents of the state.
  • Developed a HOS(Head of Service) data analytics application that revealed that there were over 3000 ghost workers in the state
  • Built a Task Management application called SmartTask and started a SmartOffice suite of apps
  • Re-designed process and methods of execution, such as the redesign of a 2 page paper form to 1 page, so that residents can fill easily

Valleybits limited

Team Lead and Co Founder

Oct 2011Sep 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Lagos, Nigeria.

  • Valleybits Limited was a company I co-founded and which was incubated at Wennovation hub, with a mission to develop viable event management products.
  • As a co-founder and team lead, I was saddled with the responsibility of developing the company's business plan. I also pitched to investors and worked on the product brand.
  • I designed the User Interface of the event-management application called EventDiary (http://www.eventdiary.com.ng)

Alpha consortium limited

Software Developer

Aug 2008Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria

  • Developed an online airtime vending system
  • Built a robust vehicle registration/driver’s licence application called “Road Marshal”

Delsoft limited

Software Programmer

Sep 2006Apr 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos · Ilupeju, Lagos, Nigeria

  • Developed an online hotel reservation system for Parkview hotels, Abuja
  • Built a career management portal, ported with abctransport.com website
  • Designed and implemented flomat bookshop website and cataloguing system
  • Contributed to the development of the setlin.com marketing portal
  • Developed the situation report module of an Early Warning System

Education

University of Ibadan

Master's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2015

University of Ibadan

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2011

Yaba College of Technology

National Diploma (ND) — Computer Technology

Jan 2005Jan 2007

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