Olusola Awopetu
Toronto,ON
Summary
Passionate and seasoned IT professional with extensive enterprise solution design, architecture, and development expertise. Skilled in the Software Development Life Cycle, industry best practices, business continuity management, core banking systems, and IT infrastructure. Dedicated to delivering innovative, high-quality solutions that enhance operational efficiency and drive business success.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Chief Technology Officer
LOTUS Bank Limited
07.2022 - 12.2024
- Handle designing and delivering technical solutions that align with business goals, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and efficient
- Champion the development of over 60 initiative solutions/Modules to drive the bank's targeted revenue, improve customer experience, and increase customer base by 600%
- Oversee the automation of over 100 manual processes using Processmaker across different bank departments, which increases efficiency and reduces the turnaround time to process customer requests by 80%
- Implement the fully functioning disaster recovery and business continuity plans with the RTO and RPO under the acceptable threshold of the bank, ensuring minimal disruption in the event of IT incidents or disasters
- Oversee the Management of the Bank's IT infrastructure, including hardware, software, and networks by ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of all the systems
- Develop and execute the IT strategy aligned with business objectives, driving digital transformation initiatives, and leveraging emerging technologies to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience
- Introduce agile methodologies and enforce development best practices to enhance product development and delivery
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders to understand their technology needs, align IT initiatives with business priorities, and deliver value-added solutions
- Implement best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment automation, resulting in improved efficiency and reliability
- Mentor junior developers, providing guidance on technical challenges, and fostering their professional growth
- Responsible for the architectural design of the bank application and participated in code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices
- Identify the need for upgrades, configurations, or new systems and report to upper management
- Responsible for the development and management of the IT budget, ensuring cost-effective resource allocation and expenditure
Solution Delivery Manager
Bank of Industry Limited
09.2021 - 06.2022
- Led IT solutions' design, development, testing, and support, introducing best practices and agile methodologies to improve scalability and performance
- Developed and maintained software applications, focusing on web-based applications
- Worked closely with product managers and stakeholders to understand requirements and prioritize tasks
- Participated in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospective meetings
- Implemented new features and enhancements, optimizing code performance and scalability
- Collaborated with QA engineers to identify and resolve software defects, ensuring product quality and reliability
Solution Delivery Manager
Parallex Bank Limited
04.2021 - 09.2021
- Managed a team of analysts, developers, and support personnel to deliver high-quality IT solutions, coordinating efforts to meet bank requirements efficiently
- Review project specifications and design technology solutions that meet or exceed stakeholder’s expectations
- Developed robust, scalable, modular, and API-centric applications
- Design and write highly maintainable, reusable code which includes Inward & Outward transfer service, over 15 Microservices, Open API, and over 20 third-party integrations
- Led version control efforts for the organization, employing GitHub and other public and open-source repositories
- Work closely with management teams to plan, develop, coordinate, and execute technical strategies aligned to the Bank's vision, mission, and purpose
Digital Solution Development Manager
SunTrust Bank Limited
10.2019 - 04.2021
- Supervised creating and maintaining new solutions and legacy applications, significantly improving product development through agile methodologies
- Redesigned and re-developed the Bank's USSD service
- Championed designing and development of Open API Service
- Third-party integration with NIBSS, Interswitch, PayAttitude, Etranzact
- Redesigned, maintained, and supported applications such as inward and outward transfer services, collection services, and bill payment services
Software Engineer
Union Bank
06.2019 - 10.2019
- Led a team of application developers in creating mobile and web applications, enhancing the customer experience for Elite and HNI customers
- Performed code review for bugs and weaknesses using an approved scanning tool
- Deployment of Applications on Azure cloud platform
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met the bank’s expectations
Software Engineer
Guaranty Trust Bank
06.2013 - 06.2019
- Developed over 20 applications across different platforms, streamlined codebases, and automated processes to reduce costs and improve functionality
- Collaborated on stages of the software development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases
- Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development
- Designed and maintained streamlined, reusable, and reliable code for use within distributed cloud environments
- Write application technical documents and workflows for the education of newly hired employees
- Implemented and supported technology solutions to meet customer's and business needs
- Coordinated designing and development of new Internet Banking (Retail and Corporate)
- Upgraded over 10 old applications and developed more than 8 new applications for Guaranty Trust Bank subsidiaries in East Africa
- Automated over 30 manual processes on BPM solution (Processmaker)
Automation Officer
Zenith Global Med. & Allied Ltd
10.2011 - 06.2013
- Automate records of over 100 clients and distributors
- Oversaw office inventory activities including ordering, requisitions, stocking, and shipment receiving
- Prepared reports to assist in key business decision-making and strategic operational planning
- Developed a simple solution for stocking and inventory management
Education
MBA - Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
International Business University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada02.2025
Certificate of Completion - Leading in Artificial Intelligence Program
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Executive Education, Harvard University
Boston, USA07.2023
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Federal University of Technology
Nigeria12.2009
Skills
- Leadership
- Flexibility
- Adaptability
- Resilience
- Team Collaboration
- Agile Frameworks
- Application Design
- Development
- Functional Documentation
- Infrastructure and Systems Architecture
- C#
- Net/Core
- Blazor
- Flutter
- Java
- PHP
- React
- Angular
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- SQL
- Oracle
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- EF Core
- ADO NET
- Dapper
- Process Automation
- Processmaker
- Software architecture
- Power Automate
- UiPath
- DevOps
- Azure
- Jenkins CI
- Atlassian JIRA
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Network Infrastructure
- System Administration
Certification
- CompTIA A+, 2009
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), 2010
- ITIL - Information Technology Infrastructure Library, 2016
- Microsoft Certified Professional Developer – Windows, 2016
- UX Design 2017 Edge Training, 2017
- Angular and Ionic Training, 2018
- Design Thinking (BOI) Training, 2019
- Secure Coding, 2023
Timeline
Chief Technology Officer
LOTUS Bank Limited
07.2022 - 12.2024
Solution Delivery Manager
Bank of Industry Limited
09.2021 - 06.2022
Solution Delivery Manager
Parallex Bank Limited
04.2021 - 09.2021
Digital Solution Development Manager
SunTrust Bank Limited
10.2019 - 04.2021
Software Engineer
Union Bank
06.2019 - 10.2019
Software Engineer
Guaranty Trust Bank
06.2013 - 06.2019
Automation Officer
Zenith Global Med. & Allied Ltd
10.2011 - 06.2013
- CompTIA A+, 2009
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), 2010
- ITIL - Information Technology Infrastructure Library, 2016
- Microsoft Certified Professional Developer – Windows, 2016
- UX Design 2017 Edge Training, 2017
- Angular and Ionic Training, 2018
- Design Thinking (BOI) Training, 2019
- Secure Coding, 2023
MBA - Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
International Business University
Certificate of Completion - Leading in Artificial Intelligence Program
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Executive Education, Harvard University
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Federal University of Technology
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