John Oke

About

I’m a software engineer and founder with experience across fintech, banking, and startup building. I started my career building.NET web and mobile applications at SureGifts, then moved into digital banking at ALAT by Wema, where I worked on core APIs and backend systems for one of Nigeria’s first fully digital banks. I later consulted for Interswitch on a digital rewards platform. I went on to co-found Wallets Africa (formerly Wallet.ng), a YC-backed fintech company building a digital wallet and payments infrastructure. As CEO and technical lead, I’ve worked across engineering, product, and infrastructure—building systems on AWS, including a PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant environment and supporting one of Africa’s early large-scale prepaid card programs. We’ve scaled to 250,000+ consumers and 20,000+ businesses, raised over $1.5M in funding, and built a team across product and engineering.

Experience

Education