A selection of the systems I've built and led — payment infrastructure, ledger and reconciliation engines, fraud detection, and enterprise platforms across financial services.
Ojuri
Creator & Maintainer · 2026–Present
Open-source multi-agent system for fraud detection on mobile money and payment transactions. Designed around agent orchestration, rule and model registries, and an operator dashboard for analyst review.
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Senior Backend Engineer & Engineering Manager · 2024–Present
Leading the banking and payment engineering arm at a Nigerian fintech building payment processing and developer-platform infrastructure. Work spans interbank transfer pipelines, ledger and reconciliation systems, fraud detection APIs, and the developer interfaces that sit on top.
Stack: Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, AWS.
Canalis Labs
Head of Engineering · 2022–Present
Heading engineering at a multi-practice technology and transformation firm. Owning engineering strategy, architecture, hiring, and delivery across the firm's client portfolio — from regulated financial services to enterprise platforms to high-growth startups.
Enterprise Insurance Platforms
Architecture & Delivery · via Canalis
Designed and delivered system architecture for enterprise insurance platforms spanning Life, General, and Health product lines. Work covered policy administration, underwriting, dual-database financial accounting infrastructure, and regulatory reporting (WHT remittance, fund reconciliation).
Wema Bank
Software Engineer, Automation & Innovations · April 2021 – June 2022
Built the bank's Debit Card Autorenewal platform — microservices and a self-service portal that handled customer notifications, card-renewal debits, and a deduplication queue for bankwide instant issuance. Also delivered an enterprise mood-and-feedback platform spanning four modules used across the organisation.
Stack: .NET Core (C#), ASP.NET Core MVC, React, Microsoft SQL Server.
Deevcorp Digital Agency
Founder & Lead Engineer
Founded and lead the engineering at Deevcorp, a digital agency shipping product work for clients across web, mobile, and payments. Notable builds include an employee shift-scheduling and time-sheet platform, and an online retail application supporting one-off payments and recurring subscription billing with stored payment instruments.
Stack: Node.js, React, React Native, MongoDB.
Paul Usoro & Co
Head, Information Technology · September 2017 – March 2021
Headed IT for one of Nigeria's leading commercial law firms. Revamped the firm's web presence, drove the migration to Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, and ran end-user training, support, and infrastructure across servers, networks, and IT policy.
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Where I trained, formally.
University of East London
M.Sc. Computer Science · 2026
Second Master's. Dissertation on multi-agent fraud detection for mobile money and payment systems — the work that seeded Ojuri.
University of Lagos
Master in Information Technology · 2017–2019
First Master's, covering information systems, software engineering, and enterprise IT.
Houdegbe North American University, Benin
B.Sc. Computer Science · 2011–2014
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science.