Michael Owolabi
Chief Technology Officer at Spleet
Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Owolabi is a pragmatic technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Lagos with nine years of engineering experience and a track record of scaling product-led platforms. At Spleet he progressed from engineer to CTO, owning architecture, performance improvements (including a ~70% latency reduction), and aligning engineering roadmaps with business and operations to simplify renting across Africa. He combines hands-on delivery—building marketplaces and internal tooling—with people leadership, mentoring junior engineers and running cross-functional product processes. His background includes distributed remote work at Andela and practical product coordination experience that sharpened his ability to launch and support products across geographies. Known for turning operational pain points into measurable technical wins, he blends full-stack engineering instincts with strategic CTO-level decision making.
9 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 University of Ibadan
English, Yoruba
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Github Skills (67)
date-fns10
vonage10
nodejs10
utilities10
javascript9
ecmascript9
linter9
eslint9
typescript9
api8
static-code-analysis8
redis-cache8
test-project8
browserslist8
redis-enterprise7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
iMichaelOwolabi/get-locale
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
iMichaelOwolabi/store-manager
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
A web application that helps store owners manage sales and product inventory records
Contributions:46 PRs, 78 pushes, 51 branches in 2 months
inventoryownersrecordsdjangoweb-application
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