Aug 2024 – Feb 2025 · 6 mos · Tel Aviv District, Israel · Remote

• ➜ Engineered ETL and API integrations to feed third-party data into Lema’s AI, automating risk analysis.
• ➜ Automated third-party risk detection by integrating intelligence feeds and processing vendor artifacts using Lema’s AI.
• ➜ Optimized data pipelines and LLM processing workflows, improving third-party risk analysis speed and accuracy.

Jan 2024 – Jul 2024 · 6 mos · Amman, Amman, Jordan · Remote

• ➜ Integrated SWIFT messaging APIs and automated MT-to-ISO 20022 message transformation, ensuring seamless validation and compliance for financial transactions.
• ➜ Migrated SWIFT infrastructure to Alliance Cloud, optimizing scalability, reducing operational overhead, and enhancing secure message exchange via FIN, InterAct, and FileAct.
• ➜ Engineered message validation and compliance workflows, ensuring adherence to SWIFT standards and regulatory requirements across financial messaging systems.

Oct 2023 – Jan 2024 · 3 mos

Feb 2023 – Oct 2023 · 8 mos · Nairobi County, Kenya · Remote

• ➜ Enhanced system reliability across multiple countries by integrating and optimizing payment partner connections.
• ➜ Guided partners in adopting optimal integration methods, ensuring high performance, compliance, and scalability.
• ➜ Developed automation and contingency solutions, reducing support demands and improving customer satisfaction.
• ➜ Built internal tools and systems to strengthen product support capabilities and streamline integration workflows.
• ➜ Acted as the key technical liaison for end-to-end integration, facilitating seamless onboarding and execution.
• ➜ Collaborated cross-functionally to launch new features and products, improving the payment experience for NALA users.
• ➜ Provided hands-on technical support throughout the integration lifecycle, troubleshooting and optimizing partner connections.

Feb 2022 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr · Lekki Peninsula, Lagos, Nigeria

• ➜ Built crypto payment solutions for merchants, enabling seamless acceptance of digital currencies.
• ➜ Designed and developed complex financial products, transforming innovative crypto ideas into scalable, user-friendly solutions.
• ➜ Collaborated with stakeholders to define requirements and deliver tailored solutions, ensuring alignment with business and user needs.
• ➜ Developed a highly secure crypto wallet leveraging a double-entry ledger system, enhancing security and transaction integrity.
• ➜ Implemented auto-trading features to facilitate instant crypto-to-fiat conversions, streamlining financial transactions.
• ➜ Contributed to the development of a virtual USD Mastercard, enabling crypto-funded global transactions.
• ➜ Developed high-performance Golang SDKs, extending functionality and improving integration across multiple projects.

Aug 2021 – Apr 2022 · 8 mos · Calabar, Cross River, Nigeria

• ➜ Developed key services for City Mart, a food e-commerce platform, using Protocol Buffers and microservice architecture to enhance scalability and efficiency.
• ➜ Built and optimized core microservices, including user, product, merchant, and order services, ensuring seamless platform functionality.
• ➜ Integrated payment gateway, enabling secure and frictionless transactions for merchants and customers.

May 2021 – Feb 2022 · 9 mos · Lagos, Nigeria

• ➜ Led algorithm and data structure training sessions for 21 Java and 20 Golang trainees, strengthening their problem-solving and coding skills.
• ➜ Conducted in-depth code reviews and provided technical guidance to a team of 10 Golang developers, helping them deliver a real estate management app within 5 weeks.
• ➜ Developed Hairx, a personalized hair care app, enabling users to achieve their hair goals through AI-driven daily routines.

Jul 2017 – Nov 2020 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Nigeria

• Developed a facial emotions classification model using machine learning techniques
• Created a neural network algorithm to recognize digits with high accuracy
• Implemented k-Means, an algorithm for grouping unlabeled data into clusters.

Jul 2014 – Jan 2015 · 6 mos · Akure, Ondo, Nigeria