Career Journey
CTO · OlaCV, Inc. (hello.cv)
Jul 2024 PresentHello.cv is dedicated to empowering individuals globally to control their digital identity, providing professionals, job seekers, creatives, and freelancers with tools to supercharge their personal brand and careers.
- Spearheaded comprehensive engineering operations, providing thoughtful leadership and strategic direction to foster a high-performance culture and empower teams to achieve peak productivity.
- Architected and deployed scalable technology infrastructure and robust deployment pipelines from the ground up, ensuring 100% system availability and reliability for a rapidly expanding user base with zero downtime.
- Pioneered the design and deployment of Hello.cv's foundational RESTful APIs, enabling seamless integrations for partner domain registrars and other service providers.
- Developed and launched a robust partner and developer account platform, streamlining third-party integrations and fostering ecosystem growth.
Fractional CTO · ByteFoundry, Inc.
Mar 2023 — Jun 2024ByteFoundry, Inc. specialized in providing outsourced product and feature design and development services to startups and early-growth companies, enabling founders to transform ideas into impactful Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to attract initial customers and secure funding.
- Led comprehensive user research, including in-depth interviews, to gather critical insights, develop user personas, and identify key pain points for product development.
- Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams, including designers, developers, and marketers, to define precise product requirements and prioritize features for timely delivery.
- Designed and deployed 'Bonafide,' an innovative non-card and AMEX-esque payments, cashbacks, and rewards platform for the web, successfully launching accompanying Android and iOS mobile customer applications for a venture and product studio.
Cofounder/CTO · PayFlexi, Inc.
Jan 2020 — Jan 2023PayFlexi provided flexible payment solutions for buyers and merchants, including social bill splitting, lay-bys, and buy now, pay later options.
- Secured approximately $100K in seed funding, demonstrating strong investor confidence in the business model.
- Forged and secured strategic partnerships with leading banks, finance houses, payment service providers, and allied fintech entities, expanding market reach and service offerings.
- Architected and developed a multi-channel payment gateway, including browser add-ons, plugins for websites, storefronts, and e-commerce platforms, along with mobile client applications.
- Led the team in developing and deploying robust RESTful APIs for optimal third-party integrations, enabling seamless programmatic transaction initiations and processing.