Ibrahim Lawal
Software Engineer at PaystackHQ
Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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SeniorIbrahim 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
Stackoverflow
1,198reputation
1.8mreached
30answers
4questions
Github Skills (96)
magento-extension10
android10
whmcs10
paystack10
php10
cocoapods10
magento9
wordpress9
dynamodb9
payment9
mobile-application9
developer-tools9
visa9
bank9
backend9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yabacon/paystack-opencart
Feb 2016 - Jan 2017
An opencart extension for paystack
Contributions:26 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 11 months
opencartpaystack
yabacon/paystack-php
Feb 2016 - May 2020
A PHP Wrapper for Paystack API - https://www.paystack.com
Contributions:1 release, 155 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 3 months
paystackphp
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