Lekan Ikotun
Director Of Engineering at American Express
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLekan Ikotun is a Director of Engineering based in New York with a decade of experience leading large-scale digital products, currently driving engineering for American Express after rising through senior and lead engineering roles there. He brings deep front-end and mobile expertise—HTML5, JavaScript frameworks, responsive design and hybrid app stacks—paired with backend and DevOps familiarity from roles at Bloomberg, ADP and Priceline. Lekan has a strong enterprise background in payments and acquisition platforms, and a track record of mentoring teams to deliver resilient, customer-facing systems at scale. His career began in web and CMS engineering and entrepreneurship, which informs a practical, product-minded approach to technical leadership. He holds an MS in Computer Information Systems and a foundation in mechanical engineering, reflecting both analytical rigor and hands-on engineering versatility.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Project Management, Certificate Project Management at Baruch CollegeBachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering at Ladoke Akintola University of TechnologyMaster of Science - MSc Computer Information Systems, Master of Science - MSc Computer Information Systems at Boston University
Github Skills (3)
expressjs10
nodejs9
javascript8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lekanikotun/cards-data
May 2018 - Dec 2021
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Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
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lekanikotun/meanbase
Sep 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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