Ahmad Alfawwaz Timehin

Senior Software Engineer & Technical Leader

London, GB.

About

Highly accomplished Engineering Lead with over a decade of experience in building scalable financial infrastructure from the ground up. Proven track record in designing and implementing high-throughput payment rails, processing 4M+ weekly transactions, and reverse-engineering 30+ banking APIs to unlock new market opportunities. Adept at driving technical innovation, securing $40K+ in grants for Web3 development, and balancing a 70% individual contribution rate with effective leadership of multiple engineering teams.

Work

MONO (YC W21)

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Engineering Lead > Software Engineering Manager

Remote, N/A, N/A

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Summary

Led engineering teams in developing and scaling critical FinTech infrastructure, overseeing complex integrations and product delivery.

Highlights

Architected and led the implementation of over 80 open banking integrations, successfully meeting unique scaling and performance demands across diverse financial ecosystems.

Designed and built Direct Debit payment rails from inception, scaling the platform to reliably process over 4 million weekly transactions.

Developed a WhatsApp-based payment solution from scratch, generating £2M in organic transactions and resolving complex authentication challenges for secure in-chat payments.

Reverse-engineered over 30 mobile banking applications to create proprietary internal APIs, expanding data access and integration capabilities where public APIs were unavailable.

Spearheaded the technical implementation of the first Account-to-Account Payment Integration using MasterCard Gateway across the entire EEMEA region, setting a regional precedent.

Cultivated a culture of asynchronous technical documentation and automated testing, enhancing delivery quality and accelerating shipping pace within a lean engineering team.

DEIMOS

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Full-Stack Software Engineer

Remote, N/A, N/A

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Summary

Engineered resilient full-stack solutions for FinTech clients, focusing on security, scalability, and robust deployment.

Highlights

Engineered and deployed highly resilient and secure backend services for FinTech clients, significantly improving system scalability and data integrity.

Developed and implemented full-stack web applications utilizing React, C#, and Node.js, delivering robust user interfaces and backend functionality.

Established robust CI/CD pipelines, streamlining deployment processes and enhancing resource access control through VPN implementation.

Maintained exceptional code quality by consistently achieving over 95% test coverage on critical systems, minimizing defects and ensuring reliability.

ONEPIPE

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Integration Engineer

Remote, N/A, N/A

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Summary

Integrated diverse financial APIs into a core aggregation layer, ensuring high quality and comprehensive testing.

Highlights

Integrated numerous bank and FinTech APIs into OnePipe's core aggregation layer, assuming full ownership of quality assurance to ensure seamless functionality.

Developed and implemented comprehensive end-to-end testing suites for payment integrations, boosting overall test coverage by 40% and enhancing system stability.

TRILOGY (Crossover for Work)

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C# (.NET) Software Engineer

Remote, N/A, N/A

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Summary

Ensured high code quality and de-risked cloud migration through rigorous testing and standards enforcement.

Highlights

Enforced stringent code quality standards during a critical cloud migration, achieving 100% test coverage and over 80% mutation coverage to significantly de-risk the transition.

YUSCOMSOFT LIMITED

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Software Engineer

N/A, N/A, Nigeria

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Summary

Designed and developed custom large-scale management systems, including secure APIs and ERP solutions.

Highlights

Led the end-to-end design and development of a custom, large-scale university management system, incorporating secure APIs for reliable academic result verification.

Extended an ODK Collect Android application to enable offline research data collection and engineered robust backend cloud aggregation solutions.

Designed and developed a custom ERP system, Probiti, to efficiently manage and streamline marketplace operations.

Education

Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta

Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
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Bachelor of Science Computer Science

Skills

Languages

TypeScript, Node.js, Rust, C#, Golang, Java, Python, Solidity.

Data

SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis.

Distributed Systems

Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, Microservices, RabbitMQ, Temporal, Event-Driven Design.

Domain

FinTech, Payments, Integrations, Open Banking, Web3.

Projects

Bonadocs

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Summary

Co-founded and architected an open-source platform simplifying Web3 protocol integrations, driving innovation in decentralized finance.