Ridwan Olalere
Chief Executive Officer at forLoop Africa
Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolRidwan Olalere is a seasoned technology executive and founder with a decade of experience building scalable fintech products and leading ventures across Africa. He is currently CEO of LemFi and Lemonade Finance, driving a mission to create a global financial services hub for immigrants. His leadership spans Uber Nigeria as Country Manager and senior operations and payments roles at OPay, giving him a rare blend of product, growth, and international-scale operations. An early coder who started as a WordPress theme developer, he later founded forLoop Africa and has steered multiple startups from idea to growth. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, his cross-disciplinary education in Aeronautical Engineering and Physics & Electronics informs a practical, systems-thinking approach to solving complex fintech challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
federal government academy sulejaBsc, Physics and Electronics, Bsc, Physics and Electronics at bells university of technologyBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Aeronautics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Aeronautics Engineering at Shenyang Institute of Aeronautical Engineering
Chinese, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (41)
forloop9
jquery8
flutterwave8
selectors8
html-parsing7
reactjs6
smack6
api5
nodejs-api5
customers5
go-api5
javascript5
netflix4
css-selectors4
golang4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TEDxAmsterdam/Frontend
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
reactjsreactfrontendreactjs-frontend
PayWC/PayWithCapture-PHP
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:86 PRs, 85 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
phppaymentconsume
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