Tunde Garba

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VP of Engineering at Bridge Energy | ex-GTBank

Bridge Energy
Lagos, Nigeria · WAT (UTC+1)
15+ years experience
University of Cape Town
English, Yoruba
Hiring
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Overview

I've spent 20 years on API platforms - first at Accenture, now at Bridge Energy. Shipped 10 launches on the public API team without a rollback. Before that: GTBank and M-KOPA. Most at home with Django and REST. I tinker with 3D printers.

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Working sessions on Django
  • Second opinions on OpenAPI decisions
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Generic networking requests
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

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Skills
OpenAPIDjangoRESTrate limiting
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Hiring a founding mobile engineer for the public API team - Lagos or remote

Role
Founding mobile engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Compensation
$177k-$234k
Team
Public API, 7 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with rate limiting Production experience with REST Ownership of something end to end
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $161k-$279k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Lagos, Nigeria · remote OKopenapirate limitingdjango
Open

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Bridge Energy · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 41% in two quarters.
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Led the migration of 59 services to rate limiting.
  2. Backend Engineer
    May 2022 - Aug 2025
    GTBank · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Moved 71% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 14 a week to 2.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Nov 2018 - May 2022
    M-KOPA · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 529ms to 44ms.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Jun 2015 - Nov 2018
    EY · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 2.
    • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 22% in two quarters.
  5. Senior Backend Engineer
    Nov 2011 - Jun 2015
    Accenture · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Moved 62% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. University of Cape Town
    BSc, Electronics and Communication
    2001 - 2005

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