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Agboola Abdulkabir

@agboolaabdulkabir

Backend engineer at Sowota building payment pipelines with zero duplicate transactions since launch.

Nigeria
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At Sowota, I built payment webhook pipelines with idempotency and signature verification, with zero duplicate transactions in production since launch. I also run the production backend and cloud infrastructure behind cross-currency payments.

I built Tunlion, a Rust peer-to-peer device mesh that works without open inbound ports, and published ecqv, a Rust cryptography crate featured in This Week in Rust. My work also spans Kafka event streaming, zero-trust networking, and simulation systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

SO
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Backend Engineer (Payments & Infrastructure)

Sowota

May 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Built idempotent, signature-verified payment webhook pipelines with exactly-once guarantees across multi-currency settlement, achieving zero duplicate transactions in production since launch. Owns production backend and cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS) for cross-currency payments, including containerised async Python services, Redis, task queues, and CI/CD at dev/staging/production parity.

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Platform Engineer

Reldrop

Aug 2024 - Sep 2025 (1 year 1 month)

Owned Kubernetes and CI/CD (GitHub Actions) at full environment parity, replacing VPN access with zero-trust networking (Tailscale, mTLS). Maintained Kafka event-streaming infrastructure with ordered, exactly-once delivery, and built a discrete-event fleet and demand simulator in C#/.NET to measure revenue and rider-earnings impact before rollout.

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Founding Engineer

Growthron

Jan 2021 - Jan 2023 (2 years)

As the first engineer, built backend architecture from zero to production, plus CI/CD, deployment runbooks, and the team's first incident-response playbook.

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Software Engineer (Scientific Computing)

Independent

Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 (2 years)

Developed numerical algorithms and computational models (Python, MATLAB) on HPC simulation pipelines, validating outputs against known analytical solutions rather than previous runs.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Lagos logoUL

University of Lagos

Bachelor of Science, Systems Engineering

B.Sc. in Systems Engineering with a specialisation in AI & Mechatronics. Thesis on IoT-based fault detection for industrial distribution transformers, deriving a health index from live sensor telemetry.

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