Hi, I'm Ayo!
Backend engineer and solutions architect based in Lagos.
I architect and build the engineering behind financial systems people rely on every day. Today, I lead the banking and payments engineering arm at 9jaPay (a Nigerian fintech) and head engineering at Canalis Labs (a multi-practice technology and transformation firm). In the open, I build Ojuri, a multi-agent fraud detection platform for mobile money and payment systems.
Over the past 8+ years I've designed high-throughput payment platforms, built ledger and reconciliation systems for multi-tenant banking, and led cross-functional teams delivering enterprise insurance platforms across Life, General, and Health product lines.
Stack I live in: Node.js, TypeScript, .NET/C#, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, AWS.
Recently completed an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of East London, on top of a Master's in Information Technology from the University of Lagos and a BSc in Computer Science.
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Updated June 2026
- Building Ojuri — an open-source multi-agent fraud detection platform for mobile money and payment systems.Visit ojuri.io →
- Leading the banking and payment engineering arm at 9jaPay, and heading engineering at Canalis Labs.
- Recently completed my M.Sc. Computer Science dissertation at the University of East London on multi-agent fraud detection for mobile money — the work that seeded Ojuri.
- Deepening AWS infrastructure work (Lambda, SQS, API Gateway, RDS).
- Recently spoke at DevCommunity mentorship (December 2025) on Model Context Protocol (MCP) — covering how AI agents integrate with external systems through standardized tool interfaces.LinkedIn post →