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Elendu Uche

Manchester,UK

Summary

A driven and passionate technology delivery leader with almost two decades of experience in financial services. Delivered more than 50 fintech projects and blockchain solutions. Fluent in English (native speaker) and accustomed to working with cross-cultural, global teams. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

[Authorised to work in the UK on a Global Talent Visa Exceptional Talent]

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Senior Solutions Architect

London Stock Exchange Group Plc
London
01.2024 - Current
  • Facilitated the design of various solutions including Custody, DLT, Digital Asset Marketplace and User Identity Access Management and support over 30 Engineers.
  • Facilitated Security architecture design alongside other Cybersecurity Architects and support Architecture Governance.
  • Advise Business and Products leadership on new product design initiatives.

Co-founder

Zone Payment Networks
Lagos
06.2022 - 11.2023
  • Promoted to Co-founder of Zone Blockchain Switch after the product's successful pilot operations and the Appzone rebranding to Zone.
  • Served as solution delivery and product delivery operations executive officer at Zone.
  • Achieved transaction volume growth of 40% and network expansion.
  • Executive management engagement

Software Architect (Independent)

TokenLinx (www.tokenlinx.com)
Texas, USA
02.2023 - 05.2023
  • Designed and documented TellurideHub (Hyperledger Fabric) blockchain system architecture and customer portal system architecture using the C4 model and visualised it on Draw.io.
  • Designed and documented the Infrastructure architecture and deployment diagram.
  • Developed and implemented the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain system on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) on Kubernetes over Calico on Ubuntu (Linux) Compute instances and segmented VPCs.
  • Debugged and fixed environment-related challenges using TCP dump tool captures, BusyBox and bash scripts.

Software Engineer (Independent)

SETL Ltd (www.setl.io)
London, UK
05.2021 - 07.2022
  • Built, tested and deployed Solidity ERC-20 and ERC-1404 smart contracts to Hyperledger Besu (based on Ethereum). Contracts were tested using Truffle suite with Ganache.
  • Built, tested and deployed REST API middleware for communicating with smart contracts using the Web3.js library. Developed using Java 11, Gradle, Spring Boot and Nodejs.
  • Worked with PostgreSQL DBMS.
  • Worked with a team of software engineers and testers.
  • Java implementation used Kafka and Java Concurrency to scale the throughput.
  • Built R3 Corda smart contracts and middleware using Java 8.
  • Automated EC2 instance (running Ubuntu Linux) configuration on AWS using Ansible.
  • Operated in a virtualised environment using Docker.
  • Rapidly prototyped various blockchain solutions on R3 Corda using Java 8 and Hyperledger Fabric using Golang.

Technical Product CEO (Zone Blockchain Switch)

AppZone Ltd
Lagos
05.2021 - 06.2022
  • Served as lead solutions architect, responsible for setting up and managing post-live product engineering and service support operations.
  • Oversaw the development and rollout of product enhancements that reduced transaction dispute claims by 80%.
  • Reviewed customer business requests with the product managers to articulate the most impactful product requirements.
  • Designed and oversaw the development of off-chain transaction events archiving subsystem built on Golang, C# on .NET 6, EventStore and Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Oversaw the redesign and migration of our monitoring system from Logstash/Elastic Search/Graphana to Datadog to improve the service operations quality.
  • Led the optimisation of the transaction processing throughput by redesigning and migrating select services to .NET 6.
  • Oversaw adding SonarQube to the CI/CD pipeline.
    Improved software quality by improving the handshake with the product team before sprint planning.

Lead Software Engineer

AppZone Ltd (Payment Ventures Division)
Lagos
04.2018 - 04.2021
  • Designed and developed a proof of concept prototype of the payment processing and interbank settlement product idea that leverages Blockchain with NodeJs.
  • Coordinated technical requirements for the product with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Designed and documented the software architecture.
  • Developed the blockchain subsystem for whole transaction settlement with Golang (Hyperledger Fabric), Go-routines, Go-channels, Kafka and component integration over GRPC endpoints.
  • Oversaw the development of the services, built using C#.NET, LINQ, ASP.NET MVC, Async, Entity Framework and Microsoft SQL DBMS, that interact with the banks' card management systems and core banking.
  • Built out the software engineering team and QA team. Mentored new engineers and implemented accelerated learning programs for growth.
  • Achieved a 30% to 40% improvement in TPS by adding EventStore for asynchronous messaging.
  • Successfully launched the blockchain product, now known as Zone Switch, across five (5) banks.
  • Oversaw new feature updates to existing software systems to add functionality.
  • Designed and implemented the CI/CD pipeline with TeamCity, Docker and Octopus with the team.
  • Automated environment (Staging and Live running RHEL, Redhat Linux, Ubuntu Linux and Windows Server) configuration with Ansible on Azure.
  • Debugged and fixed environment-related challenges using TCP dump tool captures, BusyBox and bash scripts.

Software Engineer (Independent)

Maneet Choksi
Abu Dhabi, UAE
04.2018 - 03.2019
  • Designed, developed and tested asset tokenisation MVP on R3 Corda using Java 8
  • Developed REST API service using Java Spring Boot.
  • Set up and deployed R3 Corda staging network on AWS using Ansible for environment configuration and deployed to Ubuntu (Linux) EC2 instances.
  • Debugged and fixed environment-related challenges using TCP dump tool captures, BusyBox and bash scripts.
  • Operated development and staging environments on Docker.

Chief Commercial Officer (Business & Product Dev)

AppZone Ltd
Lagos
04.2016 - 04.2018
  • Responsible for researching and developing an alternative P2P payment product, Zone Mobile, in AppZone.
  • Drove sales engagements with potential bank partners and customers.
  • Developed and executed go-to-market strategies.

Software Engineer

Systems Variant
Lagos
02.2013 - 06.2017
  • Built, tested and deployed scalable and modular software products.
  • Developed a Loyalty and Reward solution for Etisalat. Built the customer-facing USSD service that implements the USSD protocol using NodeJs that receives USSD requests, interacts with Loyalty core service and responds. Processes 1,000 requests per minute.
  • Designed and developed the reward computation feature of the back office portal in C#.NET, ASP.NET, and Microsoft SQL Server DBMS.
  • Developed Payroll management system for a Bank (client) using C#.NET and Microsoft SQL Server DBMS.
  • Developed a multi-tenant school management SaaS product for High schools and Universities using C#.NET, NHibernate, ADO.NET and Microsoft SQL Server DBMS and hosted on Azure. This product got us admitted to the Microsoft BizSpark program.
  • Performed regression and system-level testing with the team to verify software quality and function before release.

Divisional Head, Business Banking Services

AppZone Ltd
Lagos
07.2014 - 03.2016
  • Responsible for designing and developing a financial business process automation product (financial ERP) on our newly developed low-code platform for small, medium and large businesses and banks to be delivered as a service (SaaS).
  • Drove sales engagement with bank clientele as a sales solutions architect.

Head, Ebanking & Payment Solutions

AppZone Ltd (Formerly Price & Networks)
Lagos
01.2013 - 07.2014
  • Drove the expansion of our enterprise clientele base for our instant card issuance and consolidated payment gateway products by 50%.

Software Developer

Price & Networks Ltd
Lagos
10.2008 - 01.2013
  • Modified existing software (built with C#.NET and ASP.NET) that processes, transforms, and mines Telecommunications call records to elevate performance. Search performance was improved by introducing Lucene.NET and cleaning up IO and network resources.
  • Developed the hosted card payment acceptance, merchant management and onboarding features of a payment gateway using C#.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. It was acquired and used by over ten (10) banks.
  • Developed an E-Commerce storefront using ASP.NET, NHibernate and Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Developed a mobile banking application using Java 2ME for the Symbian OS.
  • Promoted to oversee software development and delivery as a secondment appointment. Consulted with customers regarding project development and proposals.

Software Developer (Entry Level)

Freelance
, Lagos
01.2006 - 09.2008
  • Worked on hobby projects with other engineers using JSP, Java 2 EE, and Servlet, JPA, Hibernate with Apache Tomcat and JBoss for running EJBs.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Birkbeck, University of London
London
03/2022 -

Skills

Skills

  • Non-technical Communication & Documentation
  • Unit, Functional, System and Disruptive Testing
  • Strategic planning and stakeholder engagement
  • Product Design and Development
  • Executive management and Board engagement
  • Client Sales (including CIO, CTO, CSO, COO and CEO)
  • Sprint Planning and Translating Product Requirements to Technical Requirements
  • IT Automation
  • Business, Application, Data and Security Architecture Design
  • Technical leadership and Team management
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Risk & Security Planning & Mitigation
  • PCI-DSS, ISO 27001 Conformance experience

Technologies

  • Java, Golang, NodeJs and C#
  • Git, Subversion and TFS
  • ExpressJs, NestJs, Typescript, and Javascript
  • CI/CD Pipeline using TeamCity, SonarQube and Octopus
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Cloud Infrastructure (GCP, AWS and Azure)
  • Blockchain technology (Hyperledger Fabric, Besu and Corda)
  • SQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
  • Solidity, Web3js, Etherjs and Truffle
  • Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA and VS Code
  • Ubuntu, RHEL 7 & 8, and Windows Server OS
  • Semgrep, Trivy and SonarQube
  • AI and Deep Learning technology stacks
  • Microservices architecture expertise

Languages

English
Native

Certification

  • ToGAG Applied Enterprise Architecture Practitioner - 2025
  • Microsoft Certified Professional (.NET) - 2012
  • Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree - 2017


Hobbies & Interests

  • Running
  • Music
  • Gaming
  • Investment Finance (I plan to obtain the CFA).

Timeline

Senior Solutions Architect

London Stock Exchange Group Plc
01.2024 - Current

Software Architect (Independent)

TokenLinx (www.tokenlinx.com)
02.2023 - 05.2023

Co-founder

Zone Payment Networks
06.2022 - 11.2023

Software Engineer (Independent)

SETL Ltd (www.setl.io)
05.2021 - 07.2022

Technical Product CEO (Zone Blockchain Switch)

AppZone Ltd
05.2021 - 06.2022

Lead Software Engineer

AppZone Ltd (Payment Ventures Division)
04.2018 - 04.2021

Software Engineer (Independent)

Maneet Choksi
04.2018 - 03.2019

Chief Commercial Officer (Business & Product Dev)

AppZone Ltd
04.2016 - 04.2018

Divisional Head, Business Banking Services

AppZone Ltd
07.2014 - 03.2016

Software Engineer

Systems Variant
02.2013 - 06.2017

Head, Ebanking & Payment Solutions

AppZone Ltd (Formerly Price & Networks)
01.2013 - 07.2014

Software Developer

Price & Networks Ltd
10.2008 - 01.2013

Software Developer (Entry Level)

Freelance
01.2006 - 09.2008

Master of Science - Computer Science

Birkbeck, University of London
03/2022 -

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