Cleopatra Douglas
Co-founder & CEO at Recital Finance
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCleopatra Douglas is a fintech-focused engineering leader and founder with a decade of experience building high-throughput payment and trading systems used across banks, PSPs, and trading desks. After scaling Flutterwave’s backend to handle millions of monthly transactions with sub-second SLAs and engineering trade infrastructure at Goldman Sachs, she now leads Recital Finance, which applies AI agents to cut reconciliation time by 90% and unify fragmented ledgers. She combines deep systems engineering, ML-driven anomaly detection, and multi-party settlement design, having led cross-functional teams across three continents. A Northeastern CS master’s alumna who began her career automating banking APIs and USSD payments, she’s equally at home in production-scale backend code and product-facing financial operations. An engaging speaker in the Python community across Nigeria and Ghana, she blends entrepreneurial drive with hands-on technical rigor to modernize financial infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Abia State UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Igbo, English
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Github Skills (87)
authentication10
security10
gwt10
java10
spring-boot10
postman-collection10
spring10
postman10
oauth10
api9
structures9
spring-security9
orientdb9
integration-testing9
flutterwave9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cleopatra27/chocotea
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
A library that generates postman collection and integration tests from java code
Contributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 month
spring-bootapitestingpostman-collectionspring
cleopatra27/payrave
May 2017 - May 2021
A rave( flutterwave payment api ) Plugin for Django CMS
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
cmspaymentsapiapi-pluginecommerce
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