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Skills:JavaScript, Java, React, Node, Frontend, js, Software engineering

Software Engineer (Full-Stack) 07/2019 - current
Interswitch Group, Victoria Island, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: Fintech
Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organizations on a timely and consistent basis. At Interswitch I worked as a full-stack software engineer in the lending service team at Interswitch, building backend API services and front-end web applications for client facing products
Some of my works and achievements for the team includes: ? Designed an analytics web application to help businesses integrated into Lending Service platform to track/manage data from customer transactions and interactions. This improved customer/lender satisfaction rating by over 10% in subsequent months. ? Redesigned the Interswitch Lending Service portal to improve performance, efficiency and user experience while interfacing with customers. Customer retention rate went up 35.5% in the same year. ? Built and maintained API services that handled collections, settlements and dispute processes on loan transactions for the company. ? Designed a library which helped lending businesses easily integrate into Interswitch services with convenience. My team reported a 13% growth in lenders onboarding experiences and positive feedback. ? Built a Salary Lending service that allowed for a seamless request of loans by customers on the basis of their pay check and next pay day. ? Increased loan request frequency by 10% by building REST services that enabled the disbursement of high value loans up to 20,000,000 naira.--
Software Engineer (Frontend) 01/2018 - 07/2019
Shoown Technologies, Alimosho, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: Logistics
Shoown is an on-demand digital service that facilitates the exchange of value between individuals and businesses across Africa. At Shoown I functioned as a team lead, software engineer and product designer in the Waka4u team.
Waka4U is an on-demand digital service that facilitates the delivery of packages by day-to-day commuters for individuals and businesses in Nigeria. Some of my works and achievements for the team includes: ? Conceptualized and designed the software architecture for the company's logistics service known as Waka4u. ? Managed the entire software development process from design to deployment as the Engineering team lead in the Waka4u team. ? Designed REST API services that allowed for efficient communication between customers and the couriers delivering the service. ? Designed an application portal to manage the data on Waka4u service. ? Recorded over 100+ employment in Nigeria in the first month after launching the Waka4u logistics service.--
Software Engineer 06/2017 - 01/2018
First Bank of Nigeria, Lagos Island, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: Banking and Finance
First Bank of Nigeria is Nigeria's premier commercial bank and most valuable banking brand with over 10 million customers and over 750 business. It is a Nigerian multinational bank and financial services company headquartered in Lagos. It is the biggest bank in Nigeria by total deposits and gross earnings. At First Bank, I had the opportunity to work with the FirstMonie Agency Banking team as an android developer.
Agency Banking is simply a solution inspired by the company's vision of financial inclusion that allows merchants outside the bank to handle banking transactions on behalf of the bank for the unbanked population in Nigeria. Some of my works and achievements for the FirstMonie Agency Banking team includes: ? Built the FirstMonie agency banking solution within the scope of a shared vision of financial inclusion in Nigeria and across Africa. ? Spearheaded design teams and managed engineering collaborations with external vendors like Interswitch Group to design and maintain new and existing systems respectively. ? Contributed efficient business strategies from an engineering point of view which till date has improved the organization’s market share in financial inclusion by 12% as recorded in year 2020. ? Optimized and reduced app size by 23.2% by refactoring code, minifying media files and compressing the package using a library.--

Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) 09/2013 - 08/2018
Owerri, Imo, Nigeria
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Computer Science
Minor:Mathematics, Statistics
Graduated from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) with distinction having an overall CGPA of 3.21

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