Ibiniyi Obikoya
Technical Lead, Merchant Platform And Tools
Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolIbiniyi Obikoya is a technical lead and backend-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building payment and merchant platforms across Node.js, PHP, Java, and Ruby stacks. He has driven production work at Paystack and Kora, implemented microservices and automated test suites, and led features that improved onboarding and terminal APIs for large-scale payment flows in Africa. A University of Ibadan computer science graduate, he pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring—having coached multiple engineers and teaching at Grazac Academy—while actively sharing career advice on LinkedIn. Known for clean-code advocacy and strong interview experience with Big Tech, he brings both product-minded system design and practical troubleshooting improvements to teams. Outside work he plays drums and games, a detail that hints at his collaborative rhythm and attention to timing in engineering delivery.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Ibadan
Github Skills (11)
javascript9
open-source9
nodejs6
instagram4
youtube3
api2
rss1
backend1
mongodb1
aggregator1
retail1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Hybeecodes/insta-clone
Apr 2019 - Dec 2023
A Simple Clone of Instagram
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
instagram
Hybeecodes/imageUploader
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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