
Sufyan Ilyas
@sufyanilyas
I build secure .NET payment gateways, fintech APIs, and resilient backend services.
What I'm looking for
At Fintechtik, I build and maintain production payment services for the Ghana market, including a redirection-based hosted payment gateway for mobile money and card collections.
I've integrated EPG card payments, MTN Mobile Money, Vodafone Cash, and AirtelTigo flows, covering payloads, redirects, callback signature validation, reconciliation, and retry handling. I also designed Redis-backed payment session handling to prevent failures caused by lost session cookies.
Across biller aggregation, voucher platforms, merchant configuration, and direct debit processing, I build ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET MVC services using Oracle and PostgreSQL. My work includes reusable SDKs, pluggable gateway processors, secure REST APIs, and integrations with services such as Xoxoday, ValueTopup, GCB, AWS S3, and AWS Secrets Manager.
I bring a security-first approach grounded in my Cyber Security degree, applying JWT authentication, AES encryption, rate limiting, validation, and OWASP Top 10 protections. I support production systems with Docker, AWS ECS, Serilog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, automated testing, and Agile code review.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Software Engineer — .NET
Fintechtik
Dec 2023 - Present (2 years 9 months)
Developed and maintained a production payment gateway on ASP.NET Core 8, integrating card and mobile money collections for the Ghana market. Implemented resilience policies, security hardening, and observability across multiple .NET services.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology
Bachelor of Science, Cyber Security
2020 - 2024
Grade: 3.12/4.00
Activities and societies: Relevant coursework: Database Systems, Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms, Software Engineering, Secure Software Design & Development, Information Security, Network Security, Computer Networks.
Pursued a Bachelor of Science in Cyber Security, achieving a CGPA of 3.12 out of 4.00.
Superior College
Intermediate in Computer Science, Computer Science
2018 - 2020
Grade: 772/1100
Completed Intermediate in Computer Science (I.C.S.) with a score of 772 out of 1100.
Workers Welfare School
Matriculation
Grade: 748/1100
Completed Matriculation with a score of 748 out of 1100.
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