Ibrahim Lawal
Principal Engineer at Paystack
Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolIbrahim Lawal is a Principal Engineer with a decade of experience building client/server applications and relational database systems, currently shaping payments infrastructure at Paystack. He brings hands-on expertise across Node.js, Python, Java, PHP, C#, Android, and both MySQL and MS SQL, with a particular affinity for open-source stacks and JSON-driven APIs. A trained Electronic and Computer Engineer (Second Class Upper) from Lagos State University, he blends application development, database administration, and project management to deliver reliable, scalable systems. Colleagues know him for pragmatic architecture decisions and for bridging legacy .NET ecosystems with modern, event-driven services. Off the resume, he’s quietly grounded—summarized simply on GitHub as “Alhamdulillah”—reflecting a steady, values-driven approach to engineering leadership.
10 years of coding experience
BSc, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Second Class Upper, BSc, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Second Class Upper at Lagos State UniversityO' Levels, O' Levels at Tifedayo International
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Github Skills (133)
visa10
payment-service10
api-client10
payment-gateway10
guzzle10
storekit10
in-app-purchase10
google-pay10
api10
sdk10
payment10
carthage10
swift10
netsuite10
obsolete10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ibrahimlawal/paystack-python
Oct 2020 - Jul 2024
Python plugin for Paystack
Contributions:10 PRs, 25 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years 10 months
pythonpython-3-6python-pluginpython-3paystack
PaystackHQ/plugin-magento
Mar 2016 - Nov 2016
A plugin that allows Magento store owners accept payments using Paystack
Contributions:8 releases, 26 commits, 17 pushes in 8 months
paymentsownersaccept-paymentsmagento2mercadopago
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