Summary
Opemipo Aikomo is a Developer Experience Lead with 11 years of product design and engineering experience building developer-facing tools and web experiences. Currently leading developer experience at HIFI after progressing from Designer/Engineer roles, he blends hands-on engineering with design leadership to streamline how teams build and ship software. Previously he headed design at Paystack and co-founded Devcenter, giving him strong product intuition and startup chops across payments and platform tooling. His background in computer engineering and a track record of moving between design and engineering roles means he often bridges UX, front-end implementation, and developer workflows. Based in Stony Stratford, he focuses on making “internet things” easier to use and scale, with a pragmatic approach to developer ergonomics. A less obvious strength is his repeated role-shifting between designer and engineer, which helps him translate design vision into production-ready developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University