Ibiyemi Adewakun
Technical Lead at Pleo
Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolIbiyemi Adewakun is a technical lead and full‑stack engineer with nine years of professional experience building enterprise and consumer-facing products, and over five years leading remote development teams. Currently leading Pleo’s engineering efforts, she focuses on aligning technical strategy with product outcomes, driving reliability, and translating payroll and spend domain complexity into usable experiences. She is proficient across Node.js, PHP, Go, Python, SQL and MongoDB and has shipped integrations with major accounting platforms and payroll systems. Previously she led payroll product development at Verifi.ng and ran technology and product at Hotels.ng, blending hands-on implementation with devops and product stewardship. Ibiyemi combines a user-experience–first mindset with rigorous technical stewardship, routinely surfacing technical debt and translating it into customer-impact tradeoffs. Outside of work she brings a creative, eclectic perspective—part developer, part fashion and art enthusiast—which informs pragmatic, user-centered product decisions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Covenant University
Github Skills (21)
recipe9
expressjs8
api7
nodejs6
orm4
internet3
monitor3
order-management3
uptime2
wordpress1
payment-gateway1
woocommerce1
ios1
ecommerce1
payment-service1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ibywaks/ibywaks.github.com
Mar 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
ibywaks/cookbook
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
A simple Express Node.js recipe API using Sequelize ORM
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
apinode-expressexpressjsrecipesequelize
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