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

  1. Senior Android Developer, Priceline

    Jan 2026 - Present

    Toronto, 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.
  2. Senior Android Developer, FairMoney

    May 2025 - Jan 2026

    Lagos, 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.
  3. Senior Android Developer, Orda Africa

    Dec 2023 - Feb 2025

    Lagos, 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.
  4. Function Lead, Frontend (Internet and Mobile), Qore

    Jun 2022 - Nov 2023

    Lagos, 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.
  5. Lead Android Engineer, eTranzact

    Oct 2021 - May 2022

    Lagos, 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.
  6. Android Developer / POS Implementation Engineer, Interswitch

    Jun 2018 - Sep 2021

    Lagos, 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