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SoftwareEngineer

Olawale Lawal

Software Engineer
Lagos Island

Summary

Logical and results-driven Software Engineer dedicated to building and optimizing user-focused applications for customers with various business objectives. Judicious and creative when crafting effective apps and platforms to propel competitive advantage and revenue growth. Technically proficient and analytical problem solver with calm and focused demeanor.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Lead Backend Engineer

Consonant Africa
Abuja
06.2021 - Current
  • Evaluated new tools and technologies to help achieve company-level goals.
  • Improved performance and reliability of databases, web services and other integrations.
  • Deployed and Maintained cloud infrastructure and distributed systems on Digital Ocean.
  • Collaborated with other teams on security, automation and internal tools.
  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
  • Minimized resource and time losses by addressing production issues directly and implementing timely solutions.
  • Setup and Maintained Network configurations for deployed applications
  • Setup and maintained CI/CD pipeline on GIthub Action and Jenkins

Backend Engineer (Contract)

Aya Payments
Toronto
10.2021 - 05.2022
  • Deployed and maintained AWS lambdas to support go implementation
  • Refactored various microservices to improve quality of code and meet acceptable standards as agreed by the entire team (such as migrating from stored procedures, improving app logs, use of
  • DB transactions)
  • Develop documentations for existing APIs
  • Provide support to users for difficulties and issues faced using the Aya system
  • Collaborated with team to improve design of the backend system and infrastructures

Fullstack Engineer

Sabi Am/Rensource Energy
Lagos
06.2020 - 09.2021
  • RENSOURCE
  • Maintained existing microservices to allow smooth day-to-day functioning of the operations team
  • Provided support for operations team
  • Onboarded new temps by entering employee information into systems.
  • Refactored several services in the deployed microservices to improve reliability
  • SABI AM
  • Collaborated with Devops team to assist in smooth and stable deployments of applications
  • Collaborated in design meetings with other dev teams to align on how the various microservices would each other to meet the business goals/targets
  • Improved performance and helped stabilize the Order
  • Management System to help operations team efficiently function
  • Implemented automated processes to help operations team and the business at large to meet targets
  • Developed and maintained core product services, libraries and frameworks.
  • Wrote unit tests to evaluate high code coverage.
  • Built APIs and data clients to consume APIs.
  • Managed efficient SQL queries and data transport.

Backend/Mobile Engineer

Innovantics
Lagos
03.2019 - 05.2020
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
  • Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
  • Built databases and table structures for web applications.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
  • Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.
  • Tuned systems to boost performance.
  • Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.

Mobile Engineer

InfoCorp
02.2018 - 04.2019
  • InfoCorp/Farm Trek is a solution involving livestock that allowed farmers leverage on their livestock to take loans
  • Maintained existing mobile Xamarin Forms applications
  • Developed new mobile Xamarin forms applications according to business requirements
  • Internships

Mobile Developer

Pi Forte
09.2017 - 11.2017
  • A 2 months internship mandated in school for students to experience some industry experience
  • Completed courses on building mobile applications using
  • Xamarin Forms and Xamarin Native
  • Took course on developing mobile application with React Native

Education

Orita-Mefa Baptist Model School
Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria
09.2011 - 06.2014

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science With Economics

Obafemi Awolowo University
Ile-Ife, Osun, Nigeria
05.2015 - 12.2019

Skills

C# (Net Core), Golang, Dart, Net MAUI (Xamarin Forms)

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Accomplishments

  • Collaborated with team of 6 Engineers in the development of AyaCare. A project that enables Employers easy access to creating and managing Health Savings Accounts with a Master Debit Card as perks for their employees. I developed and maintained new AWS Lamdas to help process reports and callbacks from 3rd party systems. I helped in major refactors in both Backend Projects (.Net Core & Golang) as well as Database Design
  • Collaborated with team of 2 Mobile Engineers and myself as the Sole Backend Engineer in the development of Grip App. Grip is a project focused on the Nigerian market aimed at consolidate a fragmented Nigerian Financial System. It aimed to allow users connect various financial services (back accounts, digital wallets, crypto wallets, investment accounts) on a single platform and allow them to spend via cards provided on the application and also help them track their expenses and subscriptions. I designed and developed the backend services, observability tools as well as business analysis tools
  • Maintained existing microservices for Rensource Market Meter Projects and liaised with customer service representatives to resolve customer issues.
  • Maintained and developed new features in Sabi Back Office Management System. This was an admin tool to help the business manage customer orders, purchase orders, invoices and payments for the entire business.
  • Developed iGate Management App with a team of 5 Engineers. This is an application to allow Admin, Excos as well as residents of a gated community to easily manage access/entrance as well collecting dues and payments on facilities available in the community.
  • Developed Lifestyle App with a team of 3 Engineers to help cinemas and event centers to easily organize ticket sales and also help customers track movie showings across multiple cinemas.
  • Maintained and Developed new features of the Bank Branch Biometrics app (3B-App), an app to help reduce the wait times in bank halls while waiting for a Cashier to attend to customers.
  • Developed the Central Mandate Management System(CMMS) for NIBSS (an inter bank settlement company) to help setup and manage bank account mandates & standing orders across all banks in Nigeria for Bank Account Holders and Billers(Service Providers) they patronize.
  • Built a middleware application for a Financial Service Provider to help convert Bank Statements Of Different Banks to convert them into MT940 formats either by culling these bank statements from secure SFTP servers or via API calls.
  • Contributor to PaystackInline.Forms.Plugin, a xamarin forms libary for Paystack, a Card Payments Integration Service
  • Developer for RehmaniApp, an arabic teaching application via the use of visual and audio aids

Timeline

Backend Engineer (Contract)

Aya Payments
10.2021 - 05.2022

Lead Backend Engineer

Consonant Africa
06.2021 - Current

Fullstack Engineer

Sabi Am/Rensource Energy
06.2020 - 09.2021

Backend/Mobile Engineer

Innovantics
03.2019 - 05.2020

Mobile Engineer

InfoCorp
02.2018 - 04.2019

Mobile Developer

Pi Forte
09.2017 - 11.2017

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science With Economics

Obafemi Awolowo University
05.2015 - 12.2019

Orita-Mefa Baptist Model School
09.2011 - 06.2014
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