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Kolawole Oyafajo

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Lead Software Engineer at Alerzo building event-driven payments services processing tens of thousands of transactions daily.

Nigeria
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At Alerzo, I lead the design and development of event-driven services for the core payments platform. I build stateless microservices and APIs that process tens of thousands of transactions daily.

I use Kafka and MQTT for event-driven services, and deliver gRPC and RESTful APIs for communication between internal services. I also optimize PostgreSQL schemas and Redis caching layers.

At Shago Payments Limited, I owned backend architecture for payments, transfers, and bill settlements. I led a migration to microservices and introduced Docker containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and OAuth2 and JWT authentication.

Earlier at Shago Payments Limited, I refactored monolithic systems, built internal B2B APIs, and established production observability practices. I also built REST APIs and backend services at Oatek Concepts and Technologies Ltd and contributed to automation and reporting systems at VAS2Nets Technologies Limited.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead Software Engineer

Alerzo

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 10 months)

Lead the design and development of distributed, event-driven services using Kafka and MQTT that power the core payments platform. Architect and build scalable, stateless microservices in NestJS and TypeScript that process tens of thousands of transactions daily.

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Software Developer

Oatek Concepts and Technologies Ltd

Mar 2019 - Jul 2019 (4 months)

Built REST APIs and backend services for enterprise applications. Wrote automated test suites and deployed APIs to production environments.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Obafemi Awolowo University logoOU

Obafemi Awolowo University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science with Mathematics

2013 - 2018

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Mathematics from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, from 2013 to 2018.

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Google

Mobile Web Specialist, Mobile Web

Completed the Google Africa Scholarship for Mobile Web Specialist in August 2018.

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