Zainab Ibe

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CTO, Tessel Commerce - Kafka · SQL · Airflow

Tessel Commerce
Lagos, Nigeria · WAT (UTC+1)
12+ years experience
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
English, Yoruba
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Overview

CTO at Tessel Commerce, focused on data pipelines. Grew the data platform team from 5 to 30 engineers. Shipped 14 launches on the data platform team without a rollback. Most at home with Iceberg and Python.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Second opinions on SQL decisions
  • Working sessions on Python
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Requests to fix your code for free

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
IcebergPythonSnowflakeKafkaAirflowSQLSpark
HiringHiring for a role
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Building out data platform at Tessel Commerce: security engineers wanted in Lagos

Role
Security engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$126k-$188k
Team
Data platform, 8 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Clear written communication
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $197k-$256k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. CTO
    Jul 2025 - Present
    Tessel Commerce · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Built the experimentation framework 6 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the data platform team from 3 to 34 engineers.
    • Shipped 8 launches on the data platform team without a rollback.
  2. Senior Data Engineer
    Feb 2022 - Jul 2025
    Mastercard · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Replaced 40 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Taught SQL to 52 non-analysts.
  3. Data Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
    M-KOPA · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Replaced 20 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  4. Data Engineer
    Dec 2016 - Jul 2020
    Naspers · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Reduced stock-outs by 36% in the first season.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  5. Data Engineer
    Jun 2014 - Sep 2016
    Andela · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Replaced 34 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Education

  1. University of Nigeria, Nsukka
    BEng, Electronics and Communication
    2007 - 2011

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