Ifedayo Adekoya
Senior Android Engineer / Toronto, Canada
Summary
Android engineer with more than eight years of experience building production apps, SDKs, and platform capabilities across travel, banking, merchant payments, and device-integrated environments. Strong in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Multiplatform, and modular architecture.
Experience
Senior Android Developer, Priceline
Jan 2026 - PresentToronto, Canada
- Contribute to the North America Android team, building and maintaining booking and checkout experiences across flights, hotels, and car rentals.
- Work on the insurance step of the Android checkout: coverage selection, eligibility states, pricing display, and confirmation.
- Build Kotlin Multiplatform-backed functionality, sharing domain logic and state handling where appropriate.
- Review code, validate regressions, and investigate crashes in a large production codebase.
Senior Android Developer, FairMoney
May 2025 - Jan 2026Lagos, Nigeria
- Worked in a 26-member Android team on the FairMoney app, using Kotlin and Kotlin Multiplatform.
- Implemented the customer transfer feature in KMP: sending money to other FairMoney accounts (intra-bank) and to accounts at other banks (inter-bank).
- Built the Phone Number as Account Number feature in KMP, so customers can receive transfers through their registered mobile number.
- Built an account-number-based bank suggestion algorithm for transfer flows.
- Developed and maintained shared KMP modules.
Senior Android Developer, Orda Africa
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025Lagos, Nigeria
- Led Android development for the merchant app and owned everything payment-related in it, from checkout to transaction workflows.
- Built integrations with payment partners in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Morocco.
- Integrated multiple POS terminals into one app. It detects which terminal it is installed on and enables card payment for that terminal.
- Built reusable device-integration and transaction modules, with business rules, networking, and presentation separated across modular Kotlin components.
- Delivered Orda's restaurant tipping feature with clerk attribution, the first tipping feature on a restaurant app in Nigeria, coordinating Android, backend, QA, and operations through rollout.
Function Lead, Frontend (Internet and Mobile), Qore
Jun 2022 - Nov 2023Lagos, Nigeria
- Led development of the SurePadi Agent app and 7+ white-label variants for banking partners.
- Built modular Kotlin frameworks and reusable SDK components for related financial-service apps.
- Integrated Jetpack Compose into legacy XML screens of the agent app (50,000+ agents) and mentored Android developers on Kotlin and clean architecture.
Lead Android Engineer, eTranzact
Oct 2021 - May 2022Lagos, Nigeria
- Led development of the PocketMoni Android app for agent banking: bill payments, transfers, cash-out, and airtime.
- Redesigned key modules using Java and MVVM.
- Resolved memory leaks, threading issues, and integration defects in remote cash-out and agent transaction workflows.
Android Developer / POS Implementation Engineer, Interswitch
Jun 2018 - Sep 2021Lagos, Nigeria
- Built production Android apps for custom terminal hardware across multiple Android OS versions and OEM environments.
- Developed and maintained reusable Android SDKs and integration layers for external developers and partner teams.
- Validated behaviour across Nexgo, PAX, Verifone, Dspread, Ingenico, Sunmi, and other Android devices.
Skills
- Android
- Kotlin, Java, Jetpack Compose, XML, Android SDK, Coroutines and Flow, Room, SQLite
- Multiplatform
- Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform
- Architecture
- MVVM, MVI, MVP, modular architecture, Hilt, Koin
- APIs and testing
- REST, GraphQL, unit tests, Espresso, Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics
- Delivery
- Git, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, AppCenter, code review
- Familiar with
- React Native, Swift
Education, certifications, and courses
Education
- BSc. Electronic and Electrical Engineering / Obafemi Awolowo University / 2013 - 2018
- Postgraduate Studies, Business Administration and Management / Grace Polytechnic / 2021
Certifications
- Google Africa Developers Scholarship, Android Stack / 2020
- PCI Qualified Integrators and Resellers / 2019
- ITIL Foundation v3 / 2019
Courses
- Jetpack Compose Masterclass / 2025
- Multi-Modular Kotlin Multiplatform Masterclass / 2025
- Industry-Level Android App Development, PL Coding / 2024
- Testing Large-Scale Multi-Module Android Apps, PL Coding / 2024