Summary
Sulaiman Adewale is a technology-agnostic software engineer and founder with nine years of experience building and leading engineering teams across fintech, payments, and consumer platforms from Lagos, Nigeria. He has held senior and CTO-level roles at startups and scaleups—driving product delivery at Buysafe, Macroware, Kiakia, Boost Zambia, and most recently founding Xara AI after a stint as Senior Software Engineer at Voya App. Comfortable across the full stack, he focuses on developer experience and scalable systems, often stepping into hands-on engineering while setting technical strategy. His background blends formal technical study with disciplined self-education, reflecting a pragmatic, results-oriented approach to shipping products under resource constraints. Notably, he moves between leadership and coding roles fluidly, a pattern that helps early-stage teams accelerate from prototype to production.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Associate's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Khan Academy
Diploma Computer Science, Diploma Computer Science at Government Technical College
Computer Science, Computer Science at Self-educated