Alfred Rowe
Co-Founder & CEO at Encodev Labs
Greater Accra Region, Ghana
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Top SchoolAlfred Rowe is a serial entrepreneur and hands-on software leader with over two decades of fintech and payments experience, currently serving as Co-Founder & CEO of Encodev Labs after a long tenure as its CTO. He built Ghana’s first internet banking system and founded MPower Payments (now Hubtel), pioneering developer-centric payment and smartphone POS solutions across West Africa. Alfred combines full-stack engineering chops—rooted in Ruby—with product-driven leadership, shipping platforms from e-ticketing to WhatsApp-based loan processing during COVID-19. He has held senior engineering and management roles at global firms like Andela and HireArt, bringing startup grit to enterprise-scale delivery. Notably, he began teaching Java and C++ at 19, reflecting a rare blend of early technical depth and sustained entrepreneurial impact.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Application Developer in E-Technology (Diploma), Computer Software Engineering, Application Developer in E-Technology (Diploma), Computer Software Engineering at NIITHigh School, Business Management, High School, Business Management at Pope John Secondary
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (98)
payment-gateway10
blazer10
rails-admin10
payment-processing10
payment9
crud9
impressions9
tracks9
mina9
admin9
adyen9
charts8
sql8
sdk8
hotel-booking8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nukturnal/smsgh_sms
Jul 2014 - Sep 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
ruby-wrapperapiapi-ssmsruby
nukturnal/gvive
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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