Summary
Ifeoluwa Olanipekun is a seasoned fintech engineering leader and CTO based in Lagos with 10 years’ experience building core banking systems and enterprise software. He has a track record of architecting mission-critical, high-performance platforms—from single-handedly building a bank’s foundational technology and DevOps pipeline to designing issuing and NIBSS payment services for scale. Skilled at leading full product lifecycles, he blends hands-on backend engineering with hiring, budget management, and operational reliability. His work includes performance optimizations that halved batch job times, enhanced server security controls, and integrations that processed millions in lending flows. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectural decisions and fast, low-friction releases in regulated payment environments. He brings an uncommon combination of deep systems-level problem solving and product-oriented execution across banking rails and consumer-facing services.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Information Technology , Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Information Technology at Bowen University Iwo