Samson Okemakinde
Sr Engineering Manager at TestGorilla
Nigeria
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Top SchoolSamson Okemakinde is a senior engineering manager with 11 years of experience designing resilient, PCI-compliant payment systems and leading cross-functional teams across Nigeria and West Africa. He has led product and platform builds for Ercaspay and Kolomoni and previously architected Watupay and Camicollect, blending hands-on systems design with stakeholder and vendor management. Comfortable translating strategic business needs into technical requirements, Samson has driven large-scale feature delivery, compliance initiatives, and performance improvements in fintech environments. His background spans full-stack engineering, API integrations, and infrastructure acquisition—skills honed from roles at WATU Global, ByteLabs, and TestGorilla. Known for turning prototypes into production-grade platforms, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a founder’s instincts for product growth. Based in Nigeria with a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Ibadan, he quietly excels at embedding operational resilience into fast-moving startups.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Ibadan
English, Yoruba, creoles and pidgins, english-based, spanish (learning)
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Github Skills (38)
android-contacts7
dart6
database6
flutter6
gridview6
android-layout6
saas6
java6
webview6
tenancy5
laravel5
columns4
php4
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flutterwave3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
C-Spydo/Hw-Far
Mar 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
C-Spydo/talkie
Mar 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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