Odetola Taiwo
Chief Technology Officer at Lovebox Africa
Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolOdetola Taiwo is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of experience crafting user-centric mobile and web applications across FinTech, Crypto, Banking, and eCommerce. He blends backend engineering in Golang and cloud-native AWS practices with frontend JavaScript work, API design (REST, gRPC, GraphQL), and relational/noSQL databases to deliver robust, scalable systems. His background in QA and automation—building Cypress, K6, Postman, and CI/CD pipelines—gives him a strong edge in shipping reliable, well-tested software and accelerating team velocity. Comfortable leading end-to-end development from architecture to automated testing, he applies agile and TDD disciplines to drive measurable impact. Based in Nigeria, he brings an analytical mindset shaped by earlier engineering and operations roles, pairing technical precision with a pragmatic user-first approach.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration Hospitality and Tourism Management, Master of Business Administration Hospitality and Tourism Management at BEBS Barcelona Executive Business SchoolERASMUS Foreign Exchange Program Civil Engineering/Project Management, ERASMUS Foreign Exchange Program Civil Engineering/Project Management at Universidad de JaénBachelors Civil Engineering, Bachelors Civil Engineering at University of Ibadan
English, Yoruba, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
currency9
payment9
payment-processing9
woocommerce-api9
golang4
flask4
python3
performance-testing2
marketing2
k62
postman-collection2
bank2
postman1
php1
validation1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sendlovebox/watu-sdk
May 2023 - Oct 2024
Golang SDK for Watu
Contributions:7 releases, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 5 months
ovallabs/go-sdk
Oct 2022 - May 2026
Our external API's Golang SDK
Contributions:16 releases, 17 reviews, 37 PRs in 3 years 7 months
golang
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