Anayo Oleru
Co-founder & Technical Team Lead at iYellowBox
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAnayo Oleru is an AI/ML architect and technical founder with 8 years of experience building product-led, AI-powered solutions across fintech, edtech, civic tech and enterprise systems. He has taken multiple products from concept to production—designing full system architectures, implementing TypeScript/Node.js backends, React Native frontends, and scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS/Heroku/Render. Notable projects include Civeex (an AI CV and cover-letter generator), iYellowBox (AI video analysis and chatbot for UK learner drivers) and LeafletUI, demonstrating a knack for practical NLP integrations with OpenAI and Whisper. He combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, performance optimisations (e.g., 25% preprocessing gains) and mentoring, while regularly contributing to open-source and developer communities. Comfortable across microservices, event-driven architectures, and mobile-first UX, he consistently translates complex domain problems into intuitive products that drive measurable user value. Based in the UK with a Master’s in Advanced Computer Science, he brings an uncommon mix of civic-impact work and commercial fintech experience to AI-driven product engineering.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma Computer Science, Higher National Diploma Computer Science at Lagos State PolytechnicMaster's degree Advanced Computer Science, Master's degree Advanced Computer Science at Cardiff Metropolitan University
English, Igbo, west african pidgin
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Github Skills (72)
starter-kit10
react-native-starter-kit10
command-line-tool10
react-native-starter10
javascript10
react-starter-kit10
command-line10
react10
react-components9
webview9
material-ui9
material-design9
typescript9
documentation9
react-native8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AnayoOleru/Reactify-Politico
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
A Nigerian E-voting system
Contributions:94 PRs, 109 pushes, 35 branches in 3 months
voting-system
AnayoOleru/hermes-ah-frontend
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:98 commits, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
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