Summary
David Asamu is an experienced infrastructure and platform engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building resilient, high-throughput systems across Africa’s fintech landscape and now working on LangGraph at LangChain. He has led SRE and platform efforts that power millions of transactions and billions in revenue, combining deep operational know-how with pragmatic engineering—evident from custom Kubernetes operators and ETL systems he built to improve security and operational velocity. As a co-founder of Nesla and former tech lead at Nomba, he blends product-minded leadership with boots‑on‑the‑ground system design, mentoring teams that ship reliable services at scale. Comfortable in Python, Go, Kubernetes and cloud stacks, he focuses on automation, observability and secure secret management to reduce friction for developers. Based in the UK but shaped by large-scale payments work in Africa, he brings a global perspective and a bias for solving both everyday developer pain points and bold technical problems. He describes himself succinctly on GitHub as "Building the future one line at a time," reflecting a steady, code-first approach to impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University
English, Yoruba