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Ilo C. - Remote mobile app developer

Ilo C.

Lead Mobile Developer
Based in: 🇳🇬 Nigeria
Timezone: West Central Africa (UTC+1)

About

I am a Seasoned Software engineer and Technical project manager with over 10 years of professional experience.

With experience working with small, medium and large organizations like Cleva, Anita Borg and Google; Ilo has what it takes to move a project from 'idea phase' to 'ready for market phase' and scaling to your first one million customer.

I currently lead the Senior Mobile Engineering team at Cleva, a YC-backed Startup that helps non-US residents to create USD accounts. Cleva currently has over 350,000 users around the world

Work Experience

Senior Mobile Team Lead
Cleva Banking | Nov 2023 - Present
Dart
Docker
Docker Compose
AWS Lambda
Flutter
AWS

Cleva is a YC-backed startup that helps non-US residents to open USD accounts from their countries with which they can receive payments from any country.

I built the current Cleva mobile app from scratch and so far we have processed over $150,000,000 for over 450,000 users.

My key responsibilities as Senior Mobile Engineer Team Lead include:

  • Leading the development of mobile applications, ensuring high performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.
  • Making key architectural decisions and setting technical standards and best practices.
  • Staying updated with the latest industry trends in mobile technologies and introducing relevant innovations and improvements to the team.
  • Overseeing the entire development lifecycle of mobile applications, from concept and design right through to testing, deployment, and support.
  • Leading, mentoring, and supporting team members to ensure their growth and professional development.
  • Communicating with stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into technical requirements.
Lead Developer
ParishBulletin | Sep 2017 - Present
Node.js
Android Studio
Firebase
Team Building
CI/CD
Flutter

ParishBulletin connects Catholics to the nearest Catholic church within their vicinity RESPONSIBILITIES - System Architecture - Building the MVP using Java - Later migrating to Kotlin in 2018 - Rebuilt the app with Flutter for Android and iOS in 2020 - Backend development with NodeJS

I used Cloudinary together with Firebase Resize images for image optimization

Projects

Cleva Banking App
Node.js
Kotlin
JavaScript
Swift
Flutter
Cleva helps non-US residents to open USD accounts from their countries with which they can receive payments from any country. As of the time of typing this, Cleva has over 13,000 customers
Sunvigo
Android
Swift
iOS
Flutter
Sunvigo is a Green energy company that provides Solar power as an alternative form of power to households in Germany. The application connects to IOT devices and helps over 2,000 households in Germany monitor their energy consumption, production and battery.

Education

University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Bachelor's degree・Computer Science
Nov 2011 - Aug 2015

Certifications & Awards

Arc Certified Remote Developer
Arc | Nov 2021
Google Summer of Code mentor
Google | Apr 2016