Afolabi Legunsen is a Senior Backend Developer and strategic technical leader with 12+ years building secure, scalable enterprise systems and leading product-focused engineering teams from Lagos. He combines deep PHP/Laravel server-side expertise, cloud architecture (GCP/AWS), and PKI experience with hands-on product delivery—having led blockchain innovation as CTO of Liftix and managed an eight-year product lifecycle at itquette. Afolabi has shipped mission-critical platforms for regulated industries, built mobile backend ecosystems for multi-app launches, and advised on tech stack and architecture choices to accelerate product-market fit. Known for turning complex business requirements into maintainable APIs and robust data schemas, he also brings a disciplined engineering culture through documentation, testing, and code reviews. Outside standard roles he’s a self-described “certified learner” who programs with the curiosity of a tinkerer—sentences ending in semicolons and paragraphs in curly braces.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BSc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Olabisi Onabanjo University(O.O.U)
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