Maxwell Obi
Co-founder & CEO at Waza (YC W23)
Lagos, Lagos State, United States
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Top SchoolMaxwell Obi is a performance-driven software engineer and founder with a decade of experience building payments and fintech products across Africa and beyond. As Co-founder and CEO of Waza (YC W23) he blends hands-on engineering instincts with commercial leadership shaped by prior head-of-business roles at Sendwave and Payments/SME leadership at Carbon. He previously co-founded Amplified (acquired by Carbon) and led core payment infrastructure teams that processed millions of transactions monthly, demonstrating deep domain expertise in payments, integrations, and scaling transactional systems. Maxwell combines product sensibility with technical depth—comfortable shipping code, designing systems, and closing strategic partnerships across West Africa. Based in Lagos, he is driven by a mission to spawn world-class African tech innovation and translate local payment challenges into globally competitive products.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Igbo, English
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Github Skills (16)
wrapper10
offline-mode9
api9
dotnet8
bitbucket8
android8
rest7
rest-api7
speech-recognition6
tcp-server5
backend2
backend-api2
java-console1
chat1
java1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
maxwellobi/.NETCore-ngrok-remote-tcp-server
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
A simple TCP server that accepts messages from a remote client and executes predefined functions based on those messages
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
tcp-server
maxwellobi/Android-Speech-Recognition
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Continuous speech recognition library for Android with options to use GoogleVoiceIme dialog and offline mode.
Contributions:1 release, 29 commits, 6 PRs in 3 days
androidoffline-modespeech-recognitionandroid-speech-to-text
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