Goodness Kayode
Head Of Product And Engineering at On Deck
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolGoodness Kayode is a product and engineering leader with 9 years of experience building and scaling developer-focused infrastructure and customer-facing products across Africa. A linguist-turned-software engineer, he has co-founded and led startups—most notably Sendchamp, which processed over 50M messages and exited to GO54—and now heads product and engineering at HOSTAFRICA driving growth across Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa. He blends hands-on technical craft with product strategy, having managed cross-functional teams, roadmaps, and analytics at GO54 and led an award-winning agency serving enterprise clients. An active mentor and technical consultant, Goodness has unblocked dozens of developers via Codementor and contributes to developer community networks like On Deck. Based in Lagos, he pairs entrepreneurial grit and investor experience with a communicator’s knack for turning complex technical problems into clear product outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature General, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature General at Obafemi Awolowo University
Yoruba, English
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Github Skills (73)
web-application10
javascript10
artisan10
laravel10
html10
foundation10
mobile-first10
paystack10
bootstrap10
css10
sass10
responsive10
laravel-package10
php10
laravel-framework10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
goodnesskay/goodnesskay.github.io
Feb 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 6 months
goodnesskay/Laravel-Open-Source-Projects
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
A Web Artisan list of categorized OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS built with Laravel PHP Framework.
Contributions:1 review, 18 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years
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