Ridwan Taiwo
Engineer at Rise Vest
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolRidwan Taiwo is an experienced software engineer with 11 years building web, mobile and decentralized applications, currently driving engineering efforts at Rise Vest from Lagos. He combines backend and full-stack proficiency (Node.js frameworks, Django/Flask, React/Angular/Vue) with DevOps expertise in Docker, Kubernetes and multi-cloud deployments across GCP, AWS and DigitalOcean. Ridwan has hands-on blockchain experience—implementing ERC20 and ERC721 token contracts and shipping DApps—and completed a Blockchain Nanodegree to formalize that practice. His career spans startups and scale-focused teams including HackerBay, Toucan Pay and Delivery Science, where he focused on robust backend systems. Trained originally as a chemist, he brings a scientific, data-driven approach to engineering problems and continuous learning. Outside core work he identifies as a mathematician and technology enthusiast, blending analytical rigor with practical system design.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at University of IlorinNanodegree, Blockchain, Nanodegree, Blockchain at Udacity
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Github Skills (24)
serve9
local-network8
rabbitmq7
command-line-tool6
jstree6
cli6
multer6
nodejs6
raii6
supertest6
microservices5
command-line5
typescript5
javascript5
web-developer2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
risevest/octonet
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Web Services toolkit
Contributions:5 releases, 5 reviews, 27 PRs in 2 years 6 months
natsjstreeweb-appjavascriptgenerators
donriddo/node-file-share
Nov 2017 - Jun 2021
A Node.js command line tool to serve files and share on a local network.
Contributions:49 commits, 3 PRs, 39 pushes in 3 years 8 months
command-line-toolnode-jsservenodejsserve-files
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