[SysConf] Ayomide Oyekanmi

Senior SRE TL at Google

Ayomide is a Senior SRE TL at Google where he works on Cloud Filestore. Previously, he worked at TeamApt (now Moniepoint) where he built fintech products for multiple banks. He is passionate about problems in Distributed Systems, OSs and Algorithms. He is also the co-founder of SysDsgn which created SysConf and a DSA program.

Abdulmumin Usman

Engineering Manager at RiseVest

Abdulmumin “Balógun” Usman is a Software Engineering Manager at Risevest. He has a background in product and design engineering, with experience building systems across banking, fintech, travel, and decentralised messaging. He enjoys diving into low-level systems, particularly game engines and graphics.

Zainab Lawal

Applied AI Engineer at Decide

Zainab is an Applied AI Engineer at Decide, where she experiments with the core systems for intelligent data agents. Her work focuses on the complex challenges of AI orchestration, including designing resilient, multi-tool agents, ensuring secure code execution, and integrating with diverse data sources through the MCP.

Fanan Dala

Software Engineer at Meta

Fanan is a software infrastructure engineer at Meta, passionate about using technology to improve lives. He has built an impressive career marked by innovation and persistence across companies like LemFi, Akiddie, Tix & Flok.

Great Umegbewe

Site Reliability Engineer at Botanix Labs

Great is a Site Reliability Engineer skilled in building and optimizing distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and blockchain platforms. He focuses on improving reliability, scalability, and performance while automating processes to reduce inefficiencies.

Ojimaojo Udale-Ameh

Product and Engineering Leader

OJ is an engineering and product leader focused on the intersection of systems design, user experience, and growth. His work spans architecting scalable systems, designing products that unlock business leverage, and bridging the gap between engineering execution and strategic vision.

Ifeoluwa Sobogun

Technical Lead at Paystack

Ifeoluwa Sobogun is a Tech Lead at Paystack, where he focuses on building and architecting resilient and reliable payment systems. He has spent the majority of the last decade building systems, services, and products that serve millions of users. Ifeoluwa is passionate about the system design process and loves to solve problems at scale.

Oluwapelumi Sola-Aremu

VP, Software Engineer at Bank of America

Pelumi is a Vice President, Software Engineer at Bank of America. He loves esoteric programming languages (like Elixir) and building products.

David (Ilerioluwa) Muritala

Software Engineer & Co-founder at Brimble

This poster contains Ileri's bio. Ileri is a software engineer with experience in the fintech industry, cloud engineering, and distributed systems. He is the founder of Brimble, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that simplifies the deployment of AI workloads, databases, and web applications. He is passionate about empowering teams to innovate and deploy faster.

Ejiro Asiuwhu

Software Engineer at Arceptive

Ejiro Asiuwhu is a Full-stack Product Engineer working at the intersection of technical execution, product thinking, and software design, with experience as a 3x founding engineer building products across Electric Vehicle, AI, Fintech, EdTech, Clean Tech (Air Quality), Event Management, and Creative industries.

Festus Ayobami Owumi

Founding AI Engineer at Plexe

Festus co-founded Bridgecard (YC S22), building fintech infrastructure that processed millions in transactions. He's currently a Founding AI Engineer at Plexe (YC X25), building ML engineering agents that build and deploy models from natural language.

John Ojetunde

Head of Engineering, POS Channel & Deposit & Savings, Moniepoint

John Ojetunde is a technology leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling software systems across fintech, healthcare, and enterprise platforms. He currently serves as Head of Engineering at Moniepoint Group, where he leads teams designing systems that process millions of transactions daily. He is also the Chief Technology Officer at Iddera, a digital-first health clinic focused on making healthcare more accessible through technology. John has previously held engineering and leadership roles at Anchor (YC S22 fintech), Yapily (UK), TeleSoftas (Lithuania), and TeamApt (now Moniepoint), where he helped architect distributed systems and develop financial products serving millions of users. A two-time founder and experienced mentor, John has built teams from scratch, guided engineers through career transitions, and helped startups grow from ideas into scalable products. He’s deeply passionate about technical excellence, system design, and leadership rooted in reliability and consistency. Outside of work, John explores the world through photography, another craft that reflects his belief in patience, focus, and storytelling through detail.

Oluwatobi Ajia

Engineering Manager, Business Loans and Salary Advance at Moniepoint

Oluwatobi Ajia is an experienced fintech engineering leader with a strong track record of developing innovative, customer-centric financial solutions. As an Engineering Manager at Moniepoint, he leads the engineering efforts for the Business Loans and Salary Advance team, driving the creation of products that empower users to manage their financial lives effectively. Oluwatobi began his career in 2016 after graduating with a first-class degree from Covenant University. He started as a software developer at Business Connexion (now Arravo), where, as the sole developer, he honed his technical skills and laid the foundation for his future in software engineering. Seeking challenges in a software-first environment, he joined TeamApt (now Moniepoint) in February 2019. There, he contributed to the Profectus team by building robust reconciliation solutions for banks and later played a key role on the Moniepoint Cards team, successfully launching “The card that just works.” In 2021, Oluwatobi advanced his career at Microsoft, spending two years developing innovative solutions before returning to Moniepoint in 2023. His diverse experience, from crafting end-to-end fintech solutions to leading high-performing teams, positions him as a dynamic leader dedicated to technical excellence and meaningful business impact.

Anthony Alaribe

Co-founder of Monospace

Anthony has spent over a decade building software at companies like Opera, and DeliveryHero. He has extensive experience dealing with unreliable software and breaking API changes, including losing over $2m in orders to such issues at DeliveryHero, amongst other war stories.

Paul Oamen

AI Researcher & CTO, MYAI

Paul is the CTO of MyAI, building rewards infrastructure for AI Agents. He’s researching trustless federated learning and verifiable distributed intelligence at the University of Aberdeen. He previously led smart contract engineering for Zone, where he built Africa's first L1 blockchain for interbank settlements.

Somtochi Onyekwere

Software Engineer at Fly.io

Somtochi is a software engineer at Fly.io, specializing in distributed systems and networking software. She is known for her work on Corrosion, Fly.io's OSS distributed system designed for fast eventual consistency. She previously worked with on Kubernetes at Weaveworks.

Temi Babs

Founder, Spitch

Temi is the founder and CEO of Spitch, building Africa's voice and language infrastructure. He leads teams designing speech recognition, translation, and text-to-speech systems for African languages that power call centers and voice-enabled apps. Before Spitch, he built and led software teams across fintech and AI startups.

Habeeb Shopeju

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Autodesk Research

Habeeb is a Machine Learning Engineer at Autodesk Research, where he focuses on advancing generative modeling research and integrating it into the company’s products. Previously at Thomson Reuters, he built data pipelines for CoCounsel Drafting, their generative AI product.

Emmanuel Bakare

Senior DevOps Engineer at Twilio

Emmanuel is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Twilio, specializing in Distributed Systems, Networking and FinOps. He has also worked at AWS, Interswitch and Deimos. His passion for the ecosystem led him to build communities like GDG UNILAG and Lagos’ Google Cloud Community which facilitated Nigeria’s first recurring Linux meetup.

Allen Akinkunle

Co-founder, InfraRed

He is currently the Co-founder of InfraRed, a company providing AML compliance and fraud detection software to financial institutions in Africa and the Middle East. Before InfraRed, Allen was a Data Science Senior Manager at EY UK and a Senior Data Scientist at Zopa Bank UK. He has over a decade of experience in AI & Software Engineering.

Justin Ikhide Irabor

Agentic AI Software Engineer

Justin Irabor is an AI Product Developer and Software Engineer. He maintains a blog at craftoverflow.substack.com, and is the co-founder of Humans in the Loop, a product research lab.