Maxwell Obi
Co-founder CEO at Waza (YC W23)
Lagos, Lagos State, United States
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Top SchoolMaxwell Obi is a performance-driven entrepreneur and software engineer, currently the Co-founder and CEO of Waza (YC W23), where he leads product and growth at a Lagos-based fintech. Over a decade, he has built and scaled enterprise and payments platforms, including leadership stints at Sendwave as Global Head of Business Development and as Head of West Africa Partnerships, and as CTO/Co-founder at Amplified Payment Systems (acquired by Carbon). He has deep hands-on experience building core payment infrastructure and driving cross-border partnerships across West Africa. He champions cutting-edge technology emerging from Africa and aims to make it matter worldwide, blending technical rigor with strategic market thinking. A graduate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Computer Science and a former Entrepreneur in Training at Meltwater MEST, he has a track record of delivering reliable software and business value at scale.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Igbo, English
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Github Skills (23)
wrapper10
api9
tcp-socket9
dialog8
api-client8
c-sharp7
speech7
rest7
dotnet7
rest-api7
csharp6
bitbucket6
tcp6
tcp-server6
speech-recognition5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
maxwellobi/.NETCore-ngrok-remote-tcp-server
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
A simple TCP server that accepts messages from a remote client and executes predefined functions based on those messages
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
tcp-socketpredefinedtcptcp-server
maxwellobi/Android-Speech-Recognition
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Continuous speech recognition library for Android with options to use GoogleVoiceIme dialog and offline mode.
Contributions:1 release, 29 commits, 6 PRs in 3 days
dialogrecognitioncontinuousspeech-recognitionandroid
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