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Sani Abubakar

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Co-founder & CTO at Delta Systems · HR software · HR tech, payroll

Works at
Delta Systems
Location
Lagos, Nigeria · WAT (UTC+1)
Experience
13+ years experience
Education
Strathmore University
Languages
English, Yoruba
Hiring
Message Connect

Overview

Founder of Delta Systems (HR software). 21 years of building before that. Took Delta Systems from zero to $7 million ARR. Raised $14 million across 2 rounds. Before that: Flutterwave and Takealot. Most at home with sales and payroll. Travel slowly, usually by train.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Early customers and design partners
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on payroll decisions
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Replies on weekends

Skills
payrollsalesSaaSHR tech
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Hiring our first account executive at Delta Systems - Lagos or remote

Role
Account executive
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Compensation
$137k-$204k
Team
Founding team, 8 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
A record of closing B2B deals Experience selling to the buyers we sell to Ownership of something end to end
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $184k-$249k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Lagos, Nigeria · remote OKhr techsaaspayroll
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Apr 2024 - Present
    Delta Systems · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Grew the team to 118 people across 2 countries.
    • Previously built and sold a small HR software company.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Oct 2022 - Apr 2024
    Flutterwave · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Staff Software Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
    Takealot · 2 yr 1 mo · Contract · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Grew the iOS team from 4 to 28 engineers.
  4. Senior Backend Engineer
    Dec 2016 - Jul 2020
    PwC · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Led the migration of 45 services to payroll.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 35% in two quarters.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2013 - Oct 2016
    Meta · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 500ms to 179ms.
    • Grew the developer experience team from 4 to 27 engineers.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from company
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling HR software.

Open-source HR tech toolkit
2023

A small library for HR software that 61 developers star on GitHub.

References

No references yet.

Education

  1. Strathmore University
    BCom, Computer Science
    2000 - 2004

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