Wareh Oweh
Engineering Manager
Lagos
Summary
Seasoned Engineering Manager adept at seamlessly integrating project technical aspects and making information relatable to non-technical personnel. Experienced leader and program manager with 8 -year history in field. Clear communicator, decision maker and problem solver.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Engineering Manager
Glovo Barcelona
08.2022 - Current
- Provide technical leadership to 4 teams totalling 15 senior software engineers on all implementations as well as guidance to the Products team on Project management, end-to-end
- Hire, lead and grow engineers, through mentoring, coaching, goal setting and continuous feedback
- Work closely with the product manager of my team to create a clear mission and vision for the team, ensuring that there are well-defined engineering and product Objectives & KPIs
- Actively unblock cross-team dependencies and develop processes that help accelerate delivery
Engineering Manager
Fincra LLC Lekki
09.2020 - 06.2022
- Provide technical leadership to 5 teams totalling 23 software engineers on all implementations as well as guidance to the Products team on Project management, end-to-end
- Head, Infrastructure – Lead the implementation infrastructure and security initiatives in accordance with compliance standards (PCI DSS, ISO 27001)
- Architect, plan and lead execution of cloud infrastructure
- Collaborate with the Products, Design, Marketing and Business teams on OKR and road map planning, feature development and minimizing churn
- Reporting project and engineering progress as well as documenting technical and security standards and procedures
- Outlining project specification and scope as it relates to the engineering team.
Engineering Manager
Innovectives Limited Victoria
03.2019 - 08.2020
- Payments and Third-Party Processing)
- Unit Head (Integrations and Deployments)
- Team member, Systems Infrastructure – configuring, hardening and deploying on-premise servers as well as migrating 60% of on-premise workloads to the cloud
- Senior Enterprise Integrations Specialist – Headed the design, implementation and deployment of an API as a Service model using WSO2 (particularly, API manager,
- Enterprise Integrator, Identity Server, Analytics engine etc.)
- Managed the JBoss Middleware to allow for seamless integration with third-party APIs like Banks, Insurance firms etc
- Designed and implemented integrations with banks such as: Guarantee Trust, Fidelity,
- Stanbic, Zenith, Wema, Jaiz and other 3rd -party APIs such as VISA and MasterCard,
- Remita (Direct Debit, and Bills Payment), ARM Insurance, NIPOST, etc using Apache
- Camel and Spring Dynamic Modules
- Deploy microservices in docker containers using Gitlab CI, and define and review the deployment standards in the Technology team
- Led the complete migration of company Technology infrastructure from Windows to
- Linux servers, hardened the Linux servers to stay within standards set by the
- Compliance Department.
Senior Java Software Engineer
Shopping Internet Services Lekki
03.2018 - 03.2019
- Team – Lafarge Holcim Centric Application – a secure enterprise application developed for the purpose of monitoring operations across the entire Lafarge business value chain
- Head of team – Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Application – a workforce monitoring solution dependent on Shopping's ROAMv2 API
- Head of team – ROAMv2 – Real Time Operations and Monitoring API for the management of workforce and field operations.
IT and Business Development Manager
CCECC Nigeria
01.2017 - 09.2017
- Govt
- Exchange Mowe, Ogun State, Designed and developed an inventory management system for the plant
- Organized and led the training team to identify and implement safety requirements and work ethics
- Liaised with clients and suppliers on production needs, logistics and delivery
- Assisted in the supervision of the Asphalt (binder and wearing courses) mixing processes in production
- Reorganized the plant, introducing necessary technologies to assist in surveillance, information dissemination and business processes.
Java Software Engineer
Shopping Internet Services Lekki
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Head and part of the team in charge of building snap-cloud – a location-based business aggregator
- Redesigned and completed the development of the Nigerian Yellow Pages API and SDK for the onboarding and search of businesses in Nigeria whilst integrating with the google maps API.
Center Supervisor
Service Information Solutions Limited
01.2016
- Pioneered some pilot Contact Centre projects for MTN (Y’ello directory, The
- Marketplace, Telesales/Telemarketing) and Ensure Insurance
- Supervised Call Centre operatives mostly during out-bound calls to ensure quality and adherence to applicable work ethics
- Led the user testing of a new MTN Telesales/telemarketing web application whilst engaging in live call sessions as well as drafted a report for new systems requirements
- Provided technical support and attended to the IT needs of operatives.
Third-party Developer
Shopping Internet Services Lekki
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Part of a 4-man team that redesigned the Systems Architecture Documentation for
- Shopping Internet Services
- Carried out automated testing of e-commerce suites dependent on Shopping’s API (namely yesmall.ng and shopsmart.ng) using Selenium and Sauce-labs
- RECENT PROJECTS
- Glovoapp - Mobile Storefront
- Disbursement and Collections – A cross-border payouts and collections system helping businesses make and receive payments respectively (crypto and/or fiat) to/from their customers especially across countries
- Quotes and Conversions Service/API – A system making it possible to carry out FX conversions with ease
- Transactional FX API (Retail) - API to enable businesses process retail payment transactions in different currencies
- Fincra Card Checkouts System
- Agency Banking as a Service
- Crypto On-ramp and Off-ramp payment – A crypto payment gateway helping businesses accept crypto as payment and instantly settles the payment in fiat currencies and vice-versa
- Kesh-Express – an agency banking solution enabling customers, especially the unbanked, carry out operations in locations where financial institutions are largely inaccessible
- Kesh-Pay – A payments gateway built on top of the MasterCard payments gateway services (Hosted Session, Hosted Checkout and Direct API)
- Octopus Agency FI – A bank-agnostic integrated middleware handling all orchestrations to NIBSS and Bank integrations deployed on the JBoss middleware
- It provides services such as name enquiry, balance inquiry, account statement, account opening, transaction status query, funds transfer (cash-in, cash-out, secure funds, reversal) etc.
Education
BSc (Hons) - Computer Science
University of Ibadan Oyo State
ES Fundamentals with SAP Certificate of Proficiency - undefined
Skills
AWS, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Java, Spring Framework, MySQL, MongoDBLinux, Docker, Apache Camel, Git, JBoss, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible
Agile framework
Requirements analysis
Project lifecycle management
Analytical and Critical Thinking
Excellent Communication
Organization and Time Management
Security planning
Product development
Code reviews
Certification
DevOps and Infrastructure Software Engineering Databases
Accomplishments
- Glovoapp - Mobile Storefront
- Disbursement and Collections – A cross-border payouts and collections system helping businesses make and receive payments respectively (crypto and/or fiat) to/from their customers especially across countries.
- Quotes and Conversions Service/API – A system making it possible to carry out FX conversions with ease.
- Transactional FX API (Retail) - API to enable businesses process retail payment transactions in different currencies.
- Fincra Card Checkouts System
- Agency Banking as a Service
- Crypto On-ramp and Off-ramp payment – A crypto payment gateway helping businesses accept crypto as payment and instantly settles the payment in fiat currencies and vice-versa.
- Kesh-Express – an agency banking solution enabling customers, especially the unbanked, carry out operations in locations where financial institutions are largely inaccessible
- Kesh-Pay – A payments gateway built on top of the MasterCard payments gateway services (Hosted Session, Hosted Checkout and Direct API).
- Octopus Agency FI – A bank-agnostic integrated middleware handling all orchestrations to NIBSS and Bank integrations deployed on the JBoss middleware. It provides services such as name enquiry, balance inquiry, account statement, account opening, transaction status query, funds transfer (cash-in, cash-out, secure funds, reversal) etc.
Timeline
Engineering Manager
Glovo Barcelona
08.2022 - Current
Engineering Manager
Fincra LLC Lekki
09.2020 - 06.2022
Engineering Manager
Innovectives Limited Victoria
03.2019 - 08.2020
Senior Java Software Engineer
Shopping Internet Services Lekki
03.2018 - 03.2019
IT and Business Development Manager
CCECC Nigeria
01.2017 - 09.2017
Java Software Engineer
Shopping Internet Services Lekki
01.2016 - 01.2017
Center Supervisor
Service Information Solutions Limited
01.2016
Third-party Developer
Shopping Internet Services Lekki
01.2015 - 01.2016
BSc (Hons) - Computer Science
University of Ibadan Oyo State