Motunrayo Koyejo
Senior Software Engineer at Cowrywise
Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolMotunrayo Koyejo is a senior software engineer based in Lagos with seven years of experience building high-availability backend systems that scale for fintech use cases. She has a strong track record at companies like Brass—where her backend optimizations cut transaction processing time by 65% and nearly eliminated downtime—and now drives engineering at Cowrywise. Equally at home defining product direction as a former technical product manager, she bridges product, engineering, and customer success to deliver fast time-to-market and high adoption. Her background in technical writing and training (Google Digital Skills for Africa, Rise Networks) helps her produce clear API documentation and mentor teams. Motivated by practical, maintainable solutions, she combines an economics degree and startup training from Y Combinator with hands-on backend expertise to solve real-world problems. Beyond code, she’s a bibliophile and technical writer who brings communication and teaching skills into engineering leadership.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Startup School, Startup School at Y CombinatorBsc.(Ed), Economics, Second Class (Upper division), Bsc.(Ed), Economics, Second Class (Upper division) at Obafemi Awolowo University
Github Skills (11)
javascript9
open-source9
programming-language6
python6
compiler4
interpreter4
cms3
devc3
crud3
flask3
sqlalchemy2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
motunrayokoyejo/motunrayokoyejo
Jul 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
motunrayokoyejo/EndSARS
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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