Tochi Onyenokwe
Engineering Manager at Braze
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTochi Onyenokwe is an engineering manager with 9 years of full-stack and infrastructure experience, currently leading teams at Braze after senior engineering roles at Block/Square. He combines hands-on technical delivery—designing REST APIs, data models, CI systems and automation tooling—with cross-functional program leadership for mid-to-large projects in payments and lending. Passionate about financially empowering underserved communities, he has built systems that handle complex financial transactions at scale while fostering inclusive, high-performing teams and employee resource groups. Known for empathetic coaching, clear cross-team communication, and a focus on elegant, pragmatic solutions, he balances product, compliance and operational concerns to ship reliable systems. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a Harvard CS background and a track record of translating operational needs into scalable engineering platforms.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Harvard UniversityWhitesands School
French, ebo (intermediate), English
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
square/kochiku
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Shard your builds for fun and profit
Contributions:12 commits in 11 months
buildsprofitshardfor-fun
square/kochiku-worker
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Build worker component of Kochiku
Contributions:10 commits in 6 months
worker
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