Summary
Ibironke Yekinni is a founder and seasoned quality engineering leader with eight years of experience building Africa’s software testing ecosystem and scaling product-quality teams across fintech and proptech. She authored Africa’s first software testing book, trained over 5,000 QA engineers, and founded Testify, Cycluno, and continent-wide communities and events (APQEC, NSTW, TestarsQuarter) that turn local talent into global-caliber practitioners. As a hands-on technologist she has led product test and quality engineering at major payments and finance platforms and now applies AI to automate manual testing with Cycluno, accelerating shipping quality by up to fivefold. Based in San Francisco with a Master’s background in cybersecurity and threat intelligence, she blends domain expertise, community-building, and product leadership—often creating the tools and forums she wished existed. An underappreciated strength: she consistently moves between strategic convening and deep technical delivery, from workshops touring Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya to launching a podcast on ambition and African excellence.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Caleb University Lagos
Master's degree, CyberSecurity, Threat Intelligence and Forensics, Master's degree, CyberSecurity, Threat Intelligence and Forensics at The University of Salford
CCNA (I,II,III,IV), CCNA (I,II,III,IV) at Cisco Networking Academy
HND, Computer Science and Statistics, HND, Computer Science and Statistics at Ogun State Institute Of Technology, Igbesa, Ogun state
English, French, Yoruba