Hi, I’m

Nnamdi
Azubuike

Software Engineering Lead · MTN Nigeria

I lead the teams behind MTN’s self-service, payments and connectivity products, used by over a million people a month.

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Nnamdi Azubuike
1M+users a month
Who I am

An engineer who stays through release.

Lagos-based engineering lead. I set technical direction, build shared foundations, and keep products healthy once they are live.

Systems thinker
Security-minded
Team builder
Production-first
Payments
Writer
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1M+People a month on products I lead
7Products in one shared codebase
2023Leading MTN delivery since
4Streams: self-service, messaging, connectivity, payments
What I do

Lead the build, end to end.

Direction

Decide what to build with product and business owners.

Platform

Shared auth, payments and design system for every app.

People

Structure, review and mentor teams so delivery never stalls.

Production

Hardening, uptime and NDPR-aware delivery after launch.

How I do it

A process built for production.

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01

Understand

The users, the business and the risk.

02

Architect

Shared packages before features.

03

Build

In one monorepo, reviewed.

04

Harden

Sessions, payments, rate limits.

05

Ship & observe

SIT, UAT, production, traced.

NextNext.js
TSTypeScript
React
NxNx / Turbo
NextAuth
OpenTelemetry
Node.js
Git
What I’ve done

Problems solved, in production.

All projects
MTN FlyX product screenshot
Wireless

MTN FlyX

A customer and agent portal that onboards homes and SMEs onto wireless broadband.
nuMoni product screenshot
Payments

nuMoni

A merchant portal and admin platform for loyalty, rewards and payments.
MTN FibreX product screenshot
Self-service

MTN FibreX

Plans and payments on the shared payment system.
MTN Self-Service product screenshot
1M+ / month

MTN Self-Service

One portal for airtime, data, bills and account, on a shared monorepo.
Monorepo

Shared platform

Shared auth, payment guards, rate limits and tracing for every app.

Also live: Bulk SMS · IoT · Cloud · Messaging · Dashboard · Go

Experience
2023 – Present

Software Engineering Lead

Estuary Business Solutions · MTN Nigeria

Leads delivery across the Next.js monorepo.

Platform

Shared packages

Auth · Payments · Design system

Used by every app in the estate.

Reliability

Production hardening

SIT · UAT · Production

Sessions, payment guards, tracing.

Community

Google Developer Groups on Campus · NACOS · Google Developer Groups Ilorin · KwaraBuild · Africa's Talking

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