Emmanuel Popoola
Founder at Balancc
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolEmmanuel Popoola is a founder and software engineer with eight years of experience building fintech products that simplify financial lives for young Africans. He combines hands-on engineering (senior frontend and full-stack roles at Fincra, Fliqpay, Quidax) with repeated founder experience (Stackhut, Salarify, now Balancc) to move ideas from prototype to revenue-generating products. Based in Lagos, he specializes in user-focused fintech interfaces and payments infrastructure, with a track record of shipping customer-facing apps and integrations. Emmanuel’s background blends formal software engineering training with a practical, startup-first approach—he often moves between leadership and code, scaling teams and systems alike. Notably, his career shows a pattern of returning to founding after senior engineering roles, signaling a mix of product instinct and technical depth.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Software Engineering at NIITHigher National Diploma Computer Science, Higher National Diploma Computer Science at Yaba College of Technology
English, Spanish, Yoruba
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
rental9
php6
visual-studio6
linux6
visual-studio-code6
compilation6
prepared-statements6
mysql6
react5
firebase5
vector5
redux5
svg4
api4
nest3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hemmayo/react-car-rental
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
A car rental app with React and Firebase
Contributions:58 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
reactrentalcar-rentalfirebasecar-rental-app
hemmayo/nestjs-microservice-template
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Sample architecture for NestJS Microservice API
Contributions:21 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
apinestjsnestnodejsmicroservices
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