About
I’m a senior, backend-heavy fullstack engineer and technical lead with 8+ years shipping production fintech platforms across web and mobile. I’m currently building backend systems at Dantown (Laravel + TypeScript) for their HR and MoneyBridge platforms. Before that, as CTO at Hizo Africa, I led a team of 6 and owned the core architecture — the cross-border RateEngine, the tiered KYC system, virtual card issuance, and end-to-end encryption.
My depth is in Laravel/PHP (8+ yrs) and Node.js/NestJS (5+ yrs), with strong frontend in Vue/Nuxt and React/Next, and cross-platform mobile in Flutter. I care about correctness in systems that move money, hardening APIs to production standards, and turning business requirements into shipped systems.
Experience
May 2026 — Present · Remote
Software Engineer (Backend)
Dantown
- — Building backend systems with Laravel and TypeScript for Dantown’s HR and MoneyBridge platforms.
- — Delivering API design, data modelling, and platform integration across both products.
Oct 2023 — Present · Remote
Technical Lead / CTO
Hizo Africa — Pan-African Neobank
- — Led platform architecture for a neobank serving cross-border payments, KYC-gated services, and virtual USD cards across multiple African markets. Live on iOS & Android.
- — Architected the cross-border RateEngine — the core pricing layer driving FX conversion, internal rate sourcing, and liquidity routing across remittance and crypto flows.
- — Designed the tiered KYC system (Prova) — provider-agnostic identity verification (Smile ID and others) with progressive feature gating across user journeys.
- — Architected a bidirectional USDT-to-fiat remittance platform with payout via local rails (SasaPay, PawaPay, M-Pesa), priced by the RateEngine.
- — Owned the Hizo Global Virtual Card system end to end — architecture, schema, REST API, security, and Interlace SDK integration.
- — Designed an end-to-end encryption layer (X25519, HKDF-SHA256, AES-256-GCM) for secure card-detail reveals, with a Flutter client SDK.
- — Managed a team of 6 engineers and seven third-party vendor relationships across product, design, and compliance.
2021 — Present · Remote (project basis)
Senior Engineering Consultant
Coriftech · TIVA Tech Africa · TECH4DEV
- — Delivered full stack engineering training to 1,000+ youths across multiple cohorts.
- — Built client-facing software and in-house SaaS; ongoing backend/platform architecture support for Trazo (food vending) and advising Vent Africa.
2022 — 2023 · Remote
Lead Web Developer (WordPress & Three.js)
Spiral Marketing — Fairfax, Virginia, USA
- — Led the team delivering client web projects across SaaS, marketing, and interactive web.
- — Built immersive Three.js / WebGL marketing sites and 3D product showcases; mentored junior developers.
2018 — 2020 · On-site
Backend Developer & Team Lead
Abegyi Corporation — Jos, Nigeria
- — Led a backend team on a fintech product that secured $500,000+ in seed funding.
- — Owned backend architecture, payments integration, and release coordination.
Education
B.Eng, Mechanical Engineering
Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) · 2011 — 2016
Certification, Software Development
Compunet Technologies · 2018