Fara Ashiru
Head Of Engineering at Kernel
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFara Ashiru is a Head of Engineering and founder with a decade-plus track record of scaling backend systems, teams, and infrastructure to serve millions of users. She built and led Okra’s API-first open finance platform—processing 20M+ transactions, supporting 400+ client apps, and securing $16.5M in VC—while migrating monoliths to resilient Node.js/TypeScript microservices. Comfortable at both strategy and execution, she has launched a proprietary cloud platform to optimise costs and local currency billing for African markets and grown remote engineering teams of 40+ including ex-FAANG talent. Her background spans consumer and enterprise products—from improving mobile UX at Pexels/Canva to building high-concurrency state platforms—demonstrating an uncommon blend of product sensitivity and infrastructure rigor. Based in the UK, she pairs engineering craftsmanship with founder grit to deliver reliable, secure platforms at scale.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Yoruba
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
api5
nodejs4
gmail4
gmail-api4
javascript3
typescript3
wordpress3
laravel3
api-client2
ionic1
angular1
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
coolashelvetica/spotpop-app
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:23 PRs, 46 pushes, 14 branches in 1 month
hotspotwi-fiwififinder
yokesolutions/sugar-pro
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Sugar Weddings Pro
Contributions:54 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
flutterweddingssugar
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