Founder and CEO of Staypace, and a software engineer and technical leader with 9+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling reliable software systems across web, cloud, data, and AI-enabled platforms. Strong background in backend engineering, API design, database modelling, cloud infrastructure, and technical team leadership.
Experience
Founder & CEO
Staypace · Present · Leadership
Lead Staypace’s company direction and product delivery while remaining hands-on in system architecture and software engineering.
Company leadership: Set strategy, priorities, and direction, aligning business goals with product and engineering delivery.
Product direction: Translate customer and stakeholder needs into a clear roadmap, practical requirements, and delivery priorities.
Technical architecture: Design scalable systems, service boundaries, APIs, and data models, with attention to security and maintainability.
Hands-on engineering: Build and review backend services, integrations, and product features, guiding implementation from concept to production.
Engineering leadership: Guide technical decisions, mentor developers, and establish code review, testing, and delivery practices.
Infrastructure and reliability: Oversee cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational improvements for dependable software delivery.
Lead Fintech Architect & MVP Engineer
Staypace Limited · Dec 2025 — Jun 2026 · Contract
Led architecture and hands-on development of a fintech MVP, taking payment workflows from early concept to a working platform.
Built pay-ins, payouts, collections, disbursements, refunds, reversals, and transaction tracking.
Designed configurable payment orchestration across providers, currencies, countries, and merchant rules.
Owned service boundaries, API contracts, database models, retries, callbacks, and asynchronous processing.
Developed and maintained web applications, supported production systems, and mentored junior developers.
Worked across requirements, design, implementation, and technical support.
Collaborated with designers on intuitive web experiences.
Junior Software Engineer
Cytonn Investments · Oct 2019 — Jul 2020 · Engineering
Modernized existing applications with PHP Laravel and contributed to a new Vue.js web portal.
Updated legacy code to improve functionality and maintainability.
Selected projects
Staypace · Fintech platform
Configurable pay-ins, payouts, merchant collections, and transaction orchestration. Architecture and hands-on engineering, from the data model to the payment flow.
A sports challenge platform bringing together a public website, participant experience, and administration tools. Work spanning web applications and shared platform foundations.