Chowdeck

Founders

• Femi AlukoFounder

  Femi is the co-founder and CEO of Chowdeck. He was a former Principal Engineer at Paystack, an African payments company acquired by Stripe in 2020. When he started at Paystack in 2017 (as the fifth engineer and the first Core Payments Engineer), he was responsible for building the core payment infrastructure for multiple payment methods. As a Principal Engineer, he was in charge of designing multiple core systems like the circuit breaker for routing over 100k transactions daily.

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• Olumide OjoFounder

  Olumide is co-founder and CTO of Chowdeck. Olumide has spent the better part of the last five years working in African fintech companies across various individual contributor and leadership roles such as Technical Lead, Engineering Manager, and, more recently, Principal Engineer at Paystack. His contributions span the entire technical stack from backend to frontend and beyond.

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• Lanre YusufFounder

  Lanre is the co-founder and COO of Chowdeck. He is a former Engineering Lead at Crown Interactive where he led a team of software engineers in developing and managing business support solutions for a leading power utility company in Nigeria.

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