Idowu Kennedy Yinusa

Idowu Kennedy Yinusa

Software Engineer
Scotland, UK.

About

Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience with a proven track record of delivering high-quality product-led solutions using various methodologies and best practices - a Professional Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS).

Work

Kondar Global Solutions Ltd
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Technical Partner

Highlights

Responsible for onboarding spare part vendors in Nigeria on the KondarSoft SaaS e-commerce platform.

Responsible for technical integration and support for clients' stores.

JovFlu LLC
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Mobile (Flutter) Engineer

Highlights

Designed the UI/UX of the dating platform.

Responsible for creating the RESTful API/micro-services.

Set up the Firebase Auth, Firestore Database, Storage, etc.

Responsible for the creation of the Google Developer Account, created store listing, billing, and taxing, In-app purchases, and published app to the Playstore.

Responsible for the creation of the Apple Developer Account, set up account, billing and taxing, In-app purchases, and publishing of the app to the App Store Connect.

Afrikindness
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Executive Board Member (IT Manager - Web & Apps)

Highlights

Providing directions for the success of Afrikindness projects.

Lead and inspire the Team, promoting a culture of collaboration, teamwork, innovation, and excellence.

Assess team members' strengths and allocate tasks based on individual strengths and organisational needs.

Lead the development and implementation of website and app strategies.

Collaborate with internal teams to understand technical requirements for various projects.

Design and maintain the technical architecture of the Afrikindness website, parents' networking platform app, etc.

Provide mentorship, technical support, and guidance to other team members.

Tehilah Base Digital
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COO / Technical Lead

Highlights

Developed and managed the broadband/internet billing portal to ensure over 85% customer retention.

Developed and managed an Insurtech solution for a FinTech firm to help customers reduce costs by purchasing insurance covers/policies easily.

Led the development of an institution's portal to help recover 62.5% of annual dues, valued at £1.08m.

Led the development of an Edtech Generative Al app built on the GPT/LLM framework to provide academic support.

Super-head all operational and software technical activities by determining the appropriate technology stack and team for all client projects.

Shawali Intercontinental Trading Co. Ltd
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CTO / Full Stack Engineer

Highlights

Led a non-profit humanitarian portal that allows donors to create support tickets and funding for over 12,000 less privileged.

Led a water and grocery e-commerce platform that enables customers to find and purchase from vendors closer to them easily, onboarded over 30,000 vendors and delivery agents.

Responsible for application development and server scaling.

Responsible for Google Developer Account creation, app store listing setup, publishing, and maintenance of app in Google PlayStore.

Super-head all project resources, technical recruiting, and maintenance.

SBMark Consulting LLC
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WordPress Engineer

Highlights

Responsible for the design and deployment of the career support platform.

Installed and configured the WordPress website template and plugins.

Set up and configured third-party integration such as Calendly, Live Chart, and YouTube Video API.

Deployed the website on the shared hosting, and configured email accounts.

Quaflux Limited
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Project Manager / Technical Lead

Highlights

Led the project planning and execution of the custom ERP platform solution.

Created sprints for team members, and assigned and coordinated their task obligations.

Hired and trained 4 technical personnel to join the team.

Monitored and merged each team member's codebase in the master branch

Education

Edinburgh Napier University

MSc. Computing (major

Software Engineering

Courses

Information System Engineering

Knowledge Management.

Security Audit & Compliance

Machine Learning/Al

Management of Software Projects

Lagos State University of Science and Technology (formerly Lagos State Polytechnic)

HND/BSc.

Computer Science

Courses

Database Design

C++

Computer Architecture

Database Design

Software Engineering

Project Management

Introduction to Al, etc.

Lagos State University of Science and Technology (formerly Lagos State Polytechnic)

OND

Computer Science

Courses

System Programming

Assembly Language

Communication Skills

System Analysis

Data Structure

Descriptive Statistics, etc.

Awards

Top 50 Thought Leaders in EdTech

Awarded By

Thinker360

Top 50 thought leaders and influencers in this category based on their personally authored content, awards, and recognition.

Excellent Award

Awarded By

The Top Executives

Top Executives in the IT and Software Industry 2015, “Award of Excellence 2015".

Meritorious Award

Awarded By

NACOSS, Lagos State Polytechnic

Most Supportive IT Firm for immense contribution and effort toward the progress of the Nigeria Association of Computer Students, Lagos State Polytechnic 2013/2014 Session.

Best IT Personnel

Awarded By

The Department of Computer Science, Lagos State Polytechnic

Recognition award presented as the Best IT Personnel 2010/2011 academic session for contribution to the association and academic growth.

Software Director

Awarded By

NACOSS, Lagos State Polytechnic

Appointed as the Software Director for the Nigerian Association of Computer Science Students, Lagos State Polytechnic Chapter.

Publications

Machine Learning Conversational Al | FlowiseAl | OpenAl | Pinecone | Apify

Summary

LLM orchestration flow for conversational Al based on website content crawling using FlowiseAl, OpenAl Embedding, Pinecone Vector Database, and Apify on LangChain LLM Framework.

SeerBit Payment APIs Review on Flutter Projects

Summary

Review of SeerBit Payment API's integrations such as the Simple Checkout, Standard Checkout, Virtual Accounts, and Subscriptions in a Flutter framework for Android and iOS applications.

Embed Conversational ChatBot on WordPress or ReactJS Website

Summary

This publication is a result of R&D to improve B2C engagement to enhance growth and customer satisfaction.

Certificates

API Observability Fundamentals

Issued By

Tyk Technologies

Python for Data Science

Issued By

IBM

AWS Fundamentals

Issued By

AWS/Coursera

Google Developer Alumni

Issued By

Google Inc.

Google Playstore Certified

Issued By

Google Inc.

LigoWave Certified Engineer

Issued By

LigoWave

Facebook Messager (Chatbot) Certified

Issued By

Facebook/Meta

CodeIgniter (PHP MVC) Certified

Issued By

Udemy

Effective Leadership

Issued By

HP

Skills

Web Development Stacks

WordPress, Bootstrap, PHP Framework, HTML/CSS, JavaScript (Frontend & Backend).

AI & Machine Learning Stacks

LLM Frameworks (GPT, Claude, LangChain, Flowise), Machine Learning/AI, Conversational AI, Sentiment Analysis, Data Science.

Cloud & DevOps Stacks

Github Actions, Docker, GCP (Google Cloud Platform), AWS (Amazon Web Services), Server Scaling.

Databases Stacks

MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL (Firebase, MongoDB), Pinecone Vector Database.

Collaboration Stacks

Agile Methodologies, Kanban, Trello, Slack, Git, Slack, Jira.

Soft Skills

Leadership, Team Collaboration, Technical Mentorship, Effective Communication, Problem-Solving.

Programming Languages Stacks

Python, PHP, JavaScript, Dart (Flutter), C++, Assembly Language.