Software architecture and system design
Designing backends, services, and product systems that stay reliable as requirements and scale change.
About
Senior engineer, technical leader, founder
I am Anthony Ogundipe—a physician-turned-software engineer, technical leader, and the Founder & CEO of Africoders.
Medicine
Engineering
Leadership
Africoders
More than a decade of experience building enterprise software, backend systems, cloud platforms, and digital products across multiple industries.
My career has moved through medicine, software engineering, enterprise systems, product development, technical leadership, and entrepreneurship. That progression is the foundation behind Africoders—not a footnote to it.
Career transition
Medical training taught structured problem-solving and responsibility for outcomes. Software engineering taught how to build systems that scale. Leadership taught how teams create clarity under pressure. Founding Africoders is where those threads meet.
Technical foundation
I bring more than a decade of hands-on engineering across backends, cloud systems, product delivery, and mentoring. That foundation matters because Africoders is not only a community idea; it is a product and platform that must earn trust through execution.
Leadership experience
As a technical lead and senior engineer—including at SeamlessHR (2021–Present)—I have learned how organisations hire, ship, and grow. Those lessons inform how I think about professional identity, delivery, and opportunity systems.
Founder mission
Building systems that help African developers and builders turn ability into visibility, trust, collaboration, and opportunity.
Alongside building Africoders, I remain open to selected opportunities in software architecture, technical consulting, product engineering, technical advisory, and engineering leadership.
What I bring
Professional strengths drawn from shipping enterprise software and leading technical work—not a laundry list of unverified claims.
Backend and full-stack engineering
Shipping interfaces, APIs, databases, and the supporting infrastructure products depend on.
Cloud systems and APIs
Building and operating cloud-hosted services used in real production environments.
Enterprise product development
Delivering software under organisational constraints where reliability and maintainability matter.
Technical leadership and mentoring
Setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and helping teams ship with clarity.
Requirements translation
Turning complex business needs into practical technical solutions for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Selected professional experience
Roles that form the technical and leadership foundation behind my current work.
Africoders Current
Leading Africoders as a people-first platform spanning learning, building, professional identity, collaboration, and career growth.
- Product
- Platform
- Community
- Leadership
SeamlessHR Current
Leading backend and cloud architecture, designing and deploying serverless APIs, mentoring engineers, and building secure microservices across core HR domains.
- Laravel
- FastAPI
- React
- AWS
- PostgreSQL
Gokada
Built and maintained logistics and ride-hailing APIs and mobile experiences, scaling services across Nigeria.
- Laravel
- Node.js
- React
- TypeScript
IBAKATV
Developed and launched a full-stack streaming product and led a multi-platform team while managing cloud infrastructure.
- React
- Node.js
- Mobile
- AWS
Bytes Technology
Built ERPs and internal applications for enterprise clients including Samsung and PZ Cussons.
- PHP
- MySQL
- JavaScript
- Drupal