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Emmanuel Perekpo

@emmanuelperekpo

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Senior Backend Engineer at Hizo and Glyde who designed payments infrastructure handling ₦12.3bn in outbound payments.

Nigeria

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At Hizo Technology and Glyde Technology, I design and write payments infrastructure for remittance and B2B payments. Hizo’s payments backend carried 278,000+ transactions and ₦12.3bn in outbound payment volume in Jan–Sep 2026.

I designed Hizo’s double-entry ledger and payout idempotency, and built Glyde’s payments stack, hosted card checkout, and treasury and FX layer. I also lead a 9-person product engineering team and work on production code, architecture, and releases.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Chief Technology Officer

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Hizo Technology & Glyde Technology

Jul 2023 - Present (3 years 2 months)

Lead a 9-person product engineering team across two products, owning architecture, code review standards, releases, and production infrastructure on AWS. Designed and wrote the payments backend and ledger, handling 278,000+ transactions and ₦12.3bn in outbound payment volume.

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Backend Engineer

Vent Africa

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023 (3 months)

Built backend API services in Laravel and Node.js for a crypto-to-fiat off-ramp, implementing the conversion-to-payout flow settling funds in naira to major Nigerian banks.

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Facilitator, ICT YEP

Government Youth Empowerment Programme

Sep 2022 - Jan 2023 (4 months)

Taught full-stack web development to 300+ students.

Full Stack Web Development Teaching

Backend Developer

Weblo

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 11 months)

Built backend services in Laravel/PHP on PostgreSQL for an on-demand fuel delivery app, using PostGIS spatial queries for order matching and rider assignment. Implemented live rider tracking and scheduled delivery for mobile LPG refills.

Laravel PHP PostgreSQL PostGIS Maps API Scheduling