Obirije John

Co-Founder & CTO

  Lagos, Nigeria

CTO, Senior Engineer with a hands-on experience in payments integrations, infrastructure, & remittance technology within & outside Africa.

- Worked directly with our Chief Executive Officer to develop strategies and grow the company through the use of our technological resources to innovate P2P remittance in Africa & US.

- Responsible for overall payment infrastructure and efficient running of platform engineering operations.

- Direct the development and implementations of third party integrations & scaling infrastructures.

- Spearheaded innovative new remittance services that generated an additional $2M + in revenue, within 3 months & expanded to Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Canada & Europe in addition to Nigeria & the United States.

Github - https://github.com/obirije
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/obirije-john-a2403310a/

    

Work Experience

Co-Founder & CTO  •  Afriex

September 2017 - Present

Co-founder and head technical engineer for one of the leading African remittance platform.

https://afriex.co/

CTO/Full-Stack Web Developer  •  Uvune Technology Limited

January 2017 - August 2017

CTO/Co-founder and project lead on several web application projects to ease payment process for partner businesses.

https://uvune.com

CTO/Fullstack Developer  •  EasyWaya Inc

January 2016 - December 2016

CTO, web and chatbot developer for a remittance platform.

Education

2015 - 2018

Rivers State University

Computer Science

2010 - 2013

Federal College of Education (Tech)

Computer/Physics

Skills



  • Javascript
  • React Native

  • React
  • Nodejs

  • MongoDB
  • AWS