Yetunde Okonkwo

Overview

16 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Basil Pay, where I lead the infrastructure team. Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion. Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 15 a week to 3. Before that: Mastercard and Deloitte.

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Experience

1. CTO

   Jun 2025 - Present
   Basil Pay · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
   • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 19 a week to 4.
   • Grew the infrastructure team from 3 to 24 engineers.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 4.
2. Director of Engineering

   May 2023 - Jun 2025
   Mastercard · 2 yr 1 mo · Contract · Lagos, Nigeria
   • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 23 a week to 2.
3. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   Dec 2021 - May 2023
   Deloitte · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
   • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 18 a week to 1.
4. Staff Site Reliability Engineer

   Dec 2019 - Nov 2021
   Standard Bank · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
   • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 22% in two quarters.
   • Wrote the incident response service that now handles 80 million requests a day.
5. Site Reliability Engineer

   Dec 2016 - Dec 2019
   Accenture · 3 yr · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
   • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 31% in two quarters.

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Education

1. Covenant University

   BEng, Computer Science
   2006 - 2010