Chigozie Madubuko

Chigozie Madubuko is a proficient software engineer with extensive experience in backend development and API standards. Currently serving as Lead Backend Engineer at Kora since May 2021, Chigozie focuses on creating a plug-and-play payment infrastructure tailored for businesses. Concurrently, Chigozie works as a Technical and Standards Engineer at Open Banking Nigeria, collaborating with fintech industry players to establish the Open Banking API standard in Nigeria and potentially across Africa. Previously, as Lead Software Engineer at Lendsqr from January 2019 to June 2021, Chigozie contributed to product feature development, deployment management, and the integration of third-party APIs, while also leading efforts for a loan recovery machine learning model and the lending ecosystem. Additionally, Chigozie gained foundational experience as a self-employed software engineer, where several web applications were developed. Chigozie holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, completed in 2018.