Summary
Josiah Yahaya is a Technical Product Manager and seasoned software leader with 8 years of experience building payments, fintech, blockchain, and AI-enabled products across Nigeria. He has led engineering teams of 30+ engineers to scale payment systems from 10k to over 1M transactions per day and shipped fast, well-documented MVPs such as Billboxx while reducing production defects through CI and QA strategies. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and product strategy, he has built crypto-enabled debit cards, exchanges, and e-commerce platforms and served as CTO of Valuebeam. Known for mentoring engineers, establishing coding standards, and driving organizational changes that improve delivery velocity, he brings a pragmatic, documentation-first approach to complex financial systems. Based in Makurdi, Josiah combines community-focused interests with a track record of measurable impact in fintech reliability and scalability.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Microbiology, General, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Microbiology, General, 2:1 at University of Mkar,Mkar-Nigeria