Oyelaja Oyekan

Led the technical roadmap and architecture, driving a new organizational strategy. Reduced cloud architecture spend by 40% and rearchitected core service communication to improve payment processing.

Documented over 30% of existing services and mentored engineers on best practices and issue resolution. Revamped policies for internal and external audits and designed infrastructure to improve uptime and transaction processing by over 45%.

Developed and led the technical strategy for savings and payday products, fostering an agile workflow for improved delivery. Achieved over 70% reduction in AWS spend and led system redesigns to reduce technical debt and enhance customer experience.

Led the migration from a monolith to a service-oriented architecture, accelerating product development and release cycles. Improved engineering velocity, issue resolution workflows, and established KPIs and OKRs for engineering and product teams.

Managed and mentored a team of over 30 engineers building trading platforms, e-commerce, and payment gateways. Introduced CI/CD, improved code review, enhanced site performance, and conducted 1-1s to support team growth and morale.

Built and managed a web and mobile app facilitating religious activities, social engagement, and financial transactions. Successfully raised funding, drove growth through strategic partnerships, and achieved a silent exit.

Collaborated with a team of developers and healthcare professionals to build and deploy a real-time hospital management system. This system reduced patient waiting times and improved the gathering and analysis of in-depth patient records. Also redesigned the hospital website.

Led the re-development of the platform, migrating from Symfony and significantly improving search accuracy and site speed. Implemented NLP and type-ahead search features, boosting user experience and achieving a top 25 Alexa rank in Nigeria. Managed deployments, releases, and mentored a team of over 12 engineers.