Tolu Olowu
Co-Founder at PayFlexi
Nigeria
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTolu Olowu is a Co-Founder and full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience building web and mobile products, infrastructure, and payment systems across Nigeria. He leads engineering and product design at PayFlexi, architecting end-to-end technology stacks and driving delivery for v1 products while co-founding prior ventures like Purse.ng. Equally comfortable in UI/UX and backend systems, he has shipped mobile apps and RESTful APIs for financial institutions and contributed iOS enhancements to an open-source React Native Google Places library. Passionate about e-commerce, fintech and business automation in Africa, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with hands-on coding and solutions architecture. Known as an early adopter, he blends creative product design with pragmatic infrastructure provisioning to move ideas into production quickly.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University
English, Yoruba
Github Skills (6)
mobile10
ios10
google-places-api10
react-native10
swift9
objective-c9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tolu360/react-native-google-places
Sep 2016 - Aug 2019
iOS/Android Google Places Widgets (Autocomplete Modals) and API Services for React Native Apps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:9 releases, 143 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tolu primarily contributed to the iOS implementation of the react-native-google-places library. Their work includes enabling the `react-native link` command for iOS, implementing proper error handling, and adding the place picker modal and address components features. The contributions reflect a focus on enhancing the library's core functionalities for iOS, including features for address and place selection, and improving error management.
apireactgoogle-place-autocompletereact-nativeios-android
tolu360/cordova-plugin-paystack
Feb 2016 - Sep 2018
This plugin allows to add Paystack Payments to your application using Paystack Native Mobile SDKs for Android & iOS
Contributions:79 commits, 3 PRs, 69 pushes in 2 years 7 months
paymentsin-app-purchaseios-androidsdksandroid
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