Goke Obasa
VP Of Engineering at Moniepoint Group
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolGoke Obasa is a hands-on engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling mobile, web, backend and DevOps systems, now serving as VP of Engineering at Moniepoint after senior leadership roles at Delivery Hero. He has led teams of up to 35 engineers to deliver high-throughput, event-driven order and checkout platforms serving millions of transactions daily, while cutting costs and improving availability through architecture and process changes. Goke combines strong technical breadth (Golang, Swift, Kotlin, Typescript, Kubernetes, AWS) with a proven track record in hiring, mentoring and incident/SRE practices that measurably improved MTTD/MTTR and developer productivity. He pairs product-focused collaboration with business impact—driving conversion, reducing cloud spend, and deprecating legacy systems—while maintaining a pragmatic, hands-on approach. Based in Berlin, he pursues AI and computer vision research interests and brings an unexpected creative edge from music, gaming and DIY projects that inform his problem-solving and team culture.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science with Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science with Mathematics at Obafemi Awolowo University
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Github Skills (57)
php10
macos10
lists9
python9
phalcon7
php-extension7
foreign-keys6
sql6
symfony6
spring-data6
user-authentication6
discounts6
spring6
yii6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CottaCush/yii2-utils
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
Yii2 utils provides various utility classes and helpers needed compatible with the Yii2 framework
Contributions:14 releases, 12 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 2 months
yii2-frameworkyii3helpersutilsyii2
goke-epapa/awesome-yii2
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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