Enoobong – Spring Boot, Java, SQL

A financial platform for onchain businesses and users in emerging markets, providing access to fiat and crypto financial services through a unified experience. The product included identity verification and KYC, virtual USD accounts, virtual cards funded with crypto, fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat transactions, payment provider integrations, and back-office tools for operational teams.

• Worked as a Product Engineer across backend and integrations, owning financial and compliance workflows end-to-end, including KYC onboarding, multiple payment and banking provider integrations, and transaction flows connecting fiat and crypto rails.
• Led an agile team of 5 engineers building the Onboard Payment Network (OPN), an automated crypto-to-fiat payment and settlement infrastructure integrating multiple liquidity and payment providers for high-throughput, multi-currency flows.
• Owned the end-to-end development and integration of virtual USD card and account services, meeting reliability and compliance requirements.
• Led the technical implementation of EUR and GBP on- and off-ramp rails, expanding regional coverage and cross-border fiat access.
• Improved onboarding conversion, transaction reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Partnered with product, business, and executive stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions and deliver high-impact features on schedule.
• Led the design and development of a crypto-native chat platform from the ground up, enabling token- and NFT-gated content and community access for creators, and delivered a production-grade product used by multiple creator communities.

A consumer fintech and crypto platform that enabled users across African markets to trade and manage digital assets, make fiat-to-crypto transactions, and access digital payment services. The platform integrated with external payment, banking, and blockchain providers to support secure and reliable financial transactions.

• Served as Acting Engineering Lead, providing technical leadership across the engineering team while remaining hands-on with backend development.
• Led technical design and architecture decisions, coordinated delivery of critical product features, reviewed code and technical implementations, and mentored engineers.
• Designed high-level service interactions and explained them to engineers to ensure efficient delivery of business value.
• Scaled and improved core financial services, integrated external providers, strengthened transaction reliability, and resolved production issues across the platform.
• Led recruitment of software engineers, doubling the engineering team in 2 months.
• Streamlined engineer onboarding so new hires understood the systems and made their first PR within a sprint.

A consumer-focused crypto and fintech platform that enabled users to buy, sell, send, receive, and manage digital assets alongside traditional payment methods. The product supported crypto trading, fiat on/off-ramp transactions, wallet services, payments, and account management for users across African markets.

• Worked as a Senior Software Engineer focused on backend systems and financial transaction workflows, developing and maintaining APIs and services for trading, payments, wallets, and fiat-to-crypto transactions.
• Architected and developed core backend services, including wallets, referrals, anti-fraud, fiat on-ramp and off-ramp, user KYC, identity verification, and vault.
• Integrated external financial and blockchain providers, and managed relationships with third-party service providers and partners.
• Improved transaction-processing reliability and performance.
• Collaborated across product and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing financial features, including KYC and compliance-related workflows.

A fintech platform providing digital financial services and payment infrastructure for businesses and individuals, including account management, payments, transfers, and transaction processing. The platform handled high volumes of financial transactions and integrated with external payment and banking services.

• Worked as a Software Engineer focused on backend systems and financial workflows, designing and developing APIs and services for payment and transaction processing.
• Developed and maintained digital bank and agency banking solutions.
• Built and deployed a fleet of microservices following best practices on availability, testing, documentation, and security.
• Integrated external financial providers and improved system reliability and performance.
• Investigated production issues and optimized database and application performance.
• Contributed to infrastructure management, web development, and API development.
• Participated in design and architecture decisions for secure, scalable financial applications and products.
• Coached junior developers and collaborated with product and engineering teams.

Connects communities around the world through mobile banking, using blockchain to provide financial services through existing social systems.

• Developed and maintained Android applications, Java EE libraries, and Spring Boot web services with strong emphasis on product management and user experience.
• Employed software development best practices including testing, code reviews, pair programming, and continuous user feedback.
• Worked closely with management to ensure products were delivered bug free and on time.
• Reduced overall APK size by 13% and configured builds to be faster using Gradle.
• Created unit tests and UI tests for existing classes without tests.
• Changed HTTP client implementations from legacy to more efficient solutions.
• Improved performance by identifying memory leaks and reducing memory footprint in the app by 26%.