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The people bringing their experience, ideas, and stories to DevFest Abuja 2026.
Program Manager, Google
Sodiq Akinjobi is a Program Manager and tech ecosystem builder at Google, where he supports Google Developer Groups across 31 Sub-Saharan African countries and developer programs that collectively reach over 200,000 developers every year.
Abdulrafiu Izuafa is a Senior AI/ML Consultant, Microsoft MVP, AI/ML Engineer, and technology entrepreneur focused on building production-grade AI systems. He works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and data, with hands-on experience building solutions across Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, AI agents, and machine learning.
Ayoade Adegbite is a Senior Analytics Engineer and data professional focused on building reliable, scalable, and human-centered data systems. His work sits at the intersection of data engineering, analytics engineering, data quality, governance, and developer experience.
Senior Software Architect at OneRemit, a crossborder payment platform with over $200,000,000 in transactions over the last 18 months and Co-Founder of Kamry AI by Ajian Labs, an on-premise AI provider, building infrastructure for sovereign intelligence for African organizations.
Okoye Chibuike is a software and AI systems engineer based in Abuja, Nigeria, and the founder of Connectgold. He builds production-grade software spanning native mobile apps, mobile game, npm packages, JetBrains IDE plugins, custom web tools, and websites featuring advanced multi-modal AI platform engines. An active contributor to the Google Developer Group (GDG) Abuja community, he is dedicated to mentoring local developers and driving forward mobile-first engineering workflows.
Ayodeji Salau is a Sales Operations and GTM professional, strategist, and startup consultant with experience across revenue operations, business strategy, growth, and technology. At Hugo Technologies, he works across Sales Operations and GTM Strategy, helping improve commercial processes, strengthen sales execution, support pipeline development, and turn data into actionable business insights.
Grace Effiong is a Frontend Engineer and DevOps professional, community builder, and co-founder of Calabar Tech Community, a developer community of over 1,000 members. Her engineering work spans frontend development, cloud technologies, and DevOps, with a focus on building and deploying reliable systems.
Hussein Alamutu is a DevOps Engineer with about five years of hands-on experience across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and automation. He is the founder of Alamz Tech, a product studio behind EarnWithDevOps with several more products in development. He holds multiple cloud and product certifications and mentors engineers at Andela preparing for certifications such as KCNA and CKAD. His work combines deep infrastructure experience with product development, AI, and building practical technology solutions for underserved markets.
Emmanuel Brendan Edeminam is a Senior UI/UX Designer with over seven years of experience creating intuitive, impactful, and user-centred digital experiences. With expertise spanning product design, user experience, and front-end technologies, he transforms complex ideas into simple, functional, and visually compelling solutions.
Hosanna Ugwu is a Product Manager with 7+ years of experience building and scaling digital products across fintech, SaaS, logistics, and marketplaces, giving him a strong understanding of emerging markets and the opportunities within them. He has led products from ideation to launch, working across product strategy, discovery, user research, requirements gathering, analytics, UX, API management, and Agile delivery. He is passionate about solving complex problems through technology and building products that create meaningful value for users and businesses. Beyond product, he is passionate about entrepreneurship and community building, having participated in and organised initiatives supporting founders, innovation, and technology across Africa.
Olawale Balogun is an Electrical and Electronics Engineer and Head of Technical Team (Impact Lab) at INNOV8 Hub, Abuja, where he leads nine technical labs and a team of 45+ engineers across embedded systems, edge AI, and IoT. He provides both hands-on engineering and technical consultancy on flagship national innovation programs, taking teams from ideation through prototyping to MVP. He builds offline AI agents on constrained hardware, including EdgeSentry, a fully offline agentic security system running on a Raspberry Pi 5 and Hailo-8L NPU with zero cloud dependency, and the Intelligent Rover, a vision based navigation platform running YOLOv8n. He holds a B.Eng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, and brings 8+ years of experience across power systems, industrial IoT, and embedded AI development.
Obaloluwa Ajiboye is an Innovation Manager with over six years of experience leading and contributing to major public-sector digital transformation initiatives, including roles with the Chief Digital Office of UNDP, the African Union Commission, and the UNICEF Office of Innovation. Most recently, he supported Nigeria's digital public infrastructure and open-source policy workstreams, and now works with Genesis Analytics, where he brings this digital public infrastructure expertise to bear on payments and digital financial services, supporting the design of interoperable, inclusive financial systems across Africa. Throughout his career, Obaloluwa has leveraged technology to strengthen governance and public service delivery. His expertise spans building innovation ecosystems, strengthening tech communities, supporting startup growth, enhancing digital public infrastructure, and implementing scalable solutions across multiple countries. At UNDP, he co-led the Open Source Ecosystem Enabler (OSEE) initiative in partnership with ITU, which has been pivotal in advancing digital governance frameworks and helping nations adopt open, interoperable digital tools.
Faith Olayinka Taiwo is a business catalyst, technology strategist, and entrepreneur passionate about seeing people, ideas, and businesses become more than they currently are.
Associate Staff Engineer
Efe Omoregie is an Associate Staff Engineer at Yellow Card, where he builds AI applications and leads high-impact projects. With nearly a decade of software engineering experience, he has worked across payment systems, healthcare platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
Cedar Daniel
Daniel Ainoko is a seasoned Software developer committed to translating conceptual visions into polished and compelling user experiences.
I’m a Cloud Architect, AI Consultant, and Developer Educator helping African developers and organisations build with AI and Google Cloud. I lead GDG Gombe and founded Ummatore Technologies, and have trained over 3,900 developers across Africa and spoken at technology events across the continent. My work spans Google Cloud architecture, the Gemini API, AI agents, AI readiness, and digital transformation. I share practical, hands-on insights from building and deploying technology in the African context.
Josiah is a software engineer with a love for building solutions that move the needle. Not just writing code, but shaping ideas into products that matter.
Isaac is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Flutter & Dart, Mentor, Community Organizer, and an accomplished Senior Software Engineer with extensive full-stack ownership across cross-platform mobile, web, desktop, and backend architectures. Proven track record in integrating AI and agentic workflows, showcased at Google I/O and leading multi-platform systems to serve millions of active users. He is a skilled technical leader adept at instituting automated governance, streamlining developer workflows, and aligning product roadmaps with cutting-edge engineering solutions.
Idorenyin Williams is a Principal Frontend Engineer and partner at TTFCX (Trusted Transfers), a fintech company operating across FX and African payment rails. He is the creator and maintainer of @use-africa-pay/core, an open-source TypeScript SDK unifying Paystack, Flutterwave, Monnify, and Remita behind a single interface. He's also the founder of iSentry Technologies, a Nigeria-based software company running a structured developer internship programme.
Adedoyin Samuel Ajeyomi (SammyGIS) is a Geospatial Developer based in Abuja. He works across geospatial data engineering, data modelling and geospatial machine learning, building the pipelines, models and cloud workflows that turn satellite imagery into insight. His work covers climate risk and disasters, flood and drought monitoring, agriculture and environmental health, built on a strong foundation in core GIS. He loves research and asking questions, and away from the keyboard you'll find him listening to music or watching a good historical film
Demilade Odumosu is a software engineer, IT consultant and founder of TFP Media, working across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation and AI-enabled systems for organisations in public and private sectors. He is also a 3MTT and Technovation mentor, with a focus on building secure, reliable and responsible software.
Uzoma Etameta is a business and people leader with experience spanning organisational development, talent management, workforce strategy and business growth. Her work focuses on the connection between people and business—helping organisations build capable teams, strengthen their people systems and create the conditions for sustainable growth.
Chisom Chima, is a software engineer and open-source contributor.
Matilda Ipeh Anashie is a product design lead, entrepreneur and community builder with over 5 years of experience designing and leading digital products across fintech, Web3, creator platforms and enterprise software for companies in Africa, Europe and Asia.
Christopher is a Senior Mobile Engineer with experience building and owning high-traffic banking features at scale. He works across Flutter, Dart, and Go, and has led complex mobile features end to end across multiple companies, from early-stage startups to established fintech products. He is one of the organizers of FlutterBytes Conference, where he invests in growing the mobile engineering community in Nigeria. Outside his day job, he builds products at the intersection of AI and mobile, and writes about the engineering decisions behind them. He is drawn to systems problems, the trade-offs that do not have clean answers, and the gap between how APIs are designed and how they are actually consumed in the real world.
Stephen Jude is a senior backend engineer based in Abuja and the maintainer of 21 open source packages with over one million combined downloads. He most recently worked as a Senior Backend Engineer at Cauridor, a cross-border payments company, and before that was CTO and Engineering Manager at Radius (formerly Pay4Me App), a Techstars 2022 company serving international students. His packages have been featured on Laravel News, Laravel Daily, and Filament Daily. He runs Litehost, a hosting company for PHP and Laravel developers, and helps organise PHPTalks, a community of over 1,000 PHP developers in Nigeria. He writes about software engineering, DevOps, and open source at stephenjude.me.
CEO, Telytreat
Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building systems across fintech, government, and consumer tech. Currently building Telytreat, a startup solving Africa's healthcare challenges with AI.
Senior Mobile Engineer, Kwikpay Credit
Jesutoni Aderibigbe is a Mobile Software Engineer, Backend Engineer, AI Product Builder, Technical Educator, and Public Speaker passionate about building technology, empowering developers, and exploring the intersection of software engineering and artificial intelligence.
Praise Adegoju is an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (ML) researcher focusing on deep learning systems, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and the mechanics of efficient Large Language Model (LLM) inference.
Kerry Ehikioya is a Senior Software Engineer, Google Developer Expert, and AI engineering leader with over six years of experience building digital infrastructure across healthcare, fintech, and AI-driven products.
Cloud Engineer
Celestina is a Cloud Engineer and Infrastructure Team Lead at Moniepoint, where she leads the team running account payment infrastructure at scale. A Grafana Champion, HashiCorp Ambassador, and IBM Champion, she founded Grafana and Friends Nigeria and runs the HashiCorp User Groups in Lagos and Ibadan. Transitioning into tech from a background in education, she is passionate about making complex systems simple and empowering the local developer ecosystem.
Senior Software Engineer
Emmanuel Obiechina is a software engineer who builds AI agents that move real money. He is the founder and CEO of Kira AI, a WhatsApp payments agent in Nigeria that turns chat messages, voice notes and screenshots into bank transfers. Kira has about 14,000 users and has processed over $4 million through its partner banks.
Idris Olubisi is a software and AI engineer, technical writer, and developer relations engineer specialising in open source, AI and developer tooling. He is the founder of Web3 Afrika, a community of builders. His tutorials for publications including freeCodeCamp, LogRocket and Hashnode have reached millions of readers, and he has led developer education and community programs for international technology companies.
Gabriel Agbobli is a Data Scientist, ML/AI Engineer, and Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Google Cloud AI. He specialises in Generative AI, agentic AI systems, and machine learning, building practical AI applications with technologies such as Gemini, Vertex AI, the Agent Development Kit (ADK), and Google Cloud. Beyond this, he is a researcher who focuses on applying statistical learning and AI to healthcare, particularly cancer genomics, survival analysis, and interpretable machine learning. Gabriel is also an international speaker, mentor, and developer advocate passionate about making advanced AI practical and accessible to developers.
Shadrack is a Software and Automation Engineer, Community Builder, and Google Developer Expert in Cloud AI. He builds AI-powered, cloud-based solutions and developer tools that help organisations automate workflows, ship faster, and scale efficiently. He also leads GDG Accra, where he supports developer growth through community, mentorship, and technical education.
Auwal is a Google Developer Expert in Firebase and Web Technologies, and the Lead for Developer Relations and Technical Integrations at Moniepoint Inc. With over a decade of experience across leading tech organizations, including Google and Andela, he bridges modern web architecture, cloud-backed app development, and community enablement. Auwal has spent the last ten years advancing Africa’s engineering landscape through hands-on workshops, conference leadership, and mentorship, pairing his foundation in Google developer tools with technical work in scalable payment systems.
I’m Kondwani Nyirenda, a Mechatronics Engineer, AI Architect, and Founder building AI platforms at Uniplexity AI that power business operations at scale from Zambia. I design and deploy intelligent systems used by hundreds of businesses to automate workflows, optimize decision-making, and improve operational efficiency. My work spans AI, software engineering, and intelligent automation, with a focus on building practical, reliable, and scalable solutions that deliver measurable business impact.
Iyiola Akanbi is a Senior Backend Engineer at Nexus Consulting Hub, building backend systems with Go, TypeScript and PostgreSQL. His work spans database performance, microservices and observability. He contributes to open source, writes for freeCodeCamp, and shares practical engineering lessons through community talks and workshops.
Gbemisola Esho is a cybersecurity practitioner, cloud computing instructor, technology educator, and Internet governance advocate. She is the Founder and CEO of ConnectoBridge, a Google Developer Expert (Cloud) and SPIRITE+ Expert Fellow, working at the intersection of cybersecurity, cloud computing, AI, and digital education. Her interests include cloud security, AI and cybersecurity, digital safety, Internet governance, and building practical technology solutions that empower underserved communities
Mustapha is a Google Developer Expert in GCP Data Cloud and a Senior Data Engineer with over five years designing, building, and securing data platforms end-to-end, from pipelines and warehousing to governance and AI enablement. His expertise spans data and analytics engineering, cloud architecture, database engineering, and increasingly the practical use of AI and LLM-driven systems in production. He is a practitioner-communicator: alongside hands-on engineering, he speaks at international conferences and publishes as a Google Dev Library author. Whether through code, talks, or writing, Mustapha is dedicated to helping people build and use data and AI systems effectively, securely, and at scale.
I am a Staff Software Engineer at Risevest, I head product engineering on the Risevest product. I specialize in building and architecting software with a keen interest in application performance and scaling infrastructure. I am versed in a variety of technologies, platforms, and tools; perks of being able to pick up tools and technologies very easily ;). I have a knack for making sure things are done properly and with the right tools for the job. I have learned over time that in this fast-paced technology environment, knowing a variety of tools and picking when to use the most appropriate tool for the job can save a team a lot of headaches and greatly increase the likelihood of a successful software project.
Peter Obiechina is a serial founder and software engineer who turns early ideas into products people actually use. Over the past seven years, he has taken multiple ventures from the first line of code to real traction, and at least one through a successful exit.
Sunday Nwovu is an entrepreneur and AI engineer with years of experience building machine learning and LLM systems and running them in production. He is the founder of Prepson, an AI-powered exam-preparation platform used by students in Nigeria and Rwanda, and an AI software engineer at EquiTech Futures, where he was selected as a Venture Builder in Oxford, in 2025. He holds an M.S. in Engineering Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Computer Science and Statistics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His work spans ML systems, RAG pipelines, parameter-efficient fine-tuning and Generative AI, with research on how large language models handle African cultural values conducted at the University of Chicago. He was a finalist in the Rhodes Forum Innovation Challenge and pitched his team’s solution at the Rhodes Forum on Technology and Society in Oxford in 2024.