Kizito Akhilome
Senior Backend Engineer at Motorway
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKizito Akhilome is a Senior Backend Engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable payment and lending systems, currently driving backend work at Motorway after leading high-impact teams at Flutterwave. He spearheaded a lending product that reached $40M in disbursements and $500k ARR in under a year, and helped ship a Shopify payments app that processed over $1.5M, demonstrating a strong focus on revenue-driving engineering. Proficient in Typescript, Node.js, SQL, MongoDB and cloud platforms, he combines systems design and API-first thinking with practical DevOps practices like CI/CD, centralized logging, and monitoring. Known for mentoring engineers across levels, he brings both hands-on coding and people leadership to fast-moving product teams. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs an engineering degree in Chemical Engineering with a Full Stack Web Development certification, reflecting a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampSmac College CokerBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Chemical Engineering at Uniben
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Github Skills (104)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
akhilome/kiakiafood
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:26 commits, 38 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 month
akhilome/fast-food-fast
Aug 2018 - May 2019
Food ordering and delivery application. API built with Node + Express (Tests w/ Mocha, Chai + chai-http) connected to a Postgres DB. Frontend built with HTML/CSS & Vanilla JS
Contributions:218 commits, 167 PRs, 171 pushes in 9 months
api-applicationexpressconnectedmongoosemongodb
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