Francis Ilechukwu
Chief Technology Officer at Exchanger 101
Nigeria
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Top SchoolFrancis Ilechukwu is a seasoned cloud and DevOps leader with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable, secure banking and fintech platforms across Nigeria. As CTO of Exchanger 101 and former Cloud & DevOps Engineer at Oxygen X and Access Bank, he has designed rapid deployment pipelines, Kubernetes-powered core banking deployments, autoscaling with mixed node groups, and real-time security scanning that materially improved delivery velocity and reduced risk. He pairs a background in mobile development and Flutter with deep infrastructure expertise, enabling end-to-end delivery from app stores to production clusters and resilient mobile CI/CD workflows. Francis is also an active open-source contributor to the well-known CodeIgniter4 framework, improving routing and documentation—evidence of his attention to core functionality and developer experience. Known for pragmatic cost-saving decisions (spot + on-demand nodes) and reproducible infrastructure scripts, he blends operational rigor with product-focused engineering. He holds a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from Federal University of Technology Owerri and pursues content creation alongside his engineering work.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering at Federal University of Technology Owerri Nigeria
English, Igbo
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Github Skills (13)
url-routing10
php-framework10
php10
codeigniter10
documentation10
java6
html6
websocket6
socket6
android6
jquery6
rest6
javame6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Francis primarily contributed to the CodeIgniter4 framework by modifying the routing and documentation components. Their work involved implementing route grouping functionality, including handling null and empty string prefixes. They also updated documentation for the routing and filesystem helpers. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the framework's core functionality and user documentation.
codeigniterphpframeworkcodeigniter4php7
francis94c/should_review
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Flutter package to determine whether to prompt a user to rate your app based on a given criteria.
Contributions:5 releases, 82 commits, 12 PRs in 1 month
flutter-packageflutter-appsratingdartreview
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