Emmanuel Obi

Software Engineer & AI Researcher

London, United Kingdom

EO

About

Builder at heart with a strong track record of shipping user-centric products and driving growth through onboarding, activation, and retention improvements. Led AI-powered initiatives that 60× onboarding speed and delivered $2M+ in recovered revenue within 48 hours. Thrive in startup environments, owning products end-to-end from idea to impact.

Work Experience

VertoFx (YC 2019)
Remote
London, UK

Jun 2024 - Present

Senior Software Engineer - Product Growth

Led the design and implementation of an AI-powered onboarding flow, increasing user activation by 60% and reducing onboarding time from 2 weeks to 1 day. Executed efforts to transition from a monolithic architecture to a microservices-based system, enhancing scalability and performance by over 300%. Designed and built retention workflows including a real-time churn detection tool that triggered proactive interventions and recovered $2M+ in 48 hours. Collaborated with onboarding teams and compliance specialists to develop an optimized risk calculation algorithm, significantly improving efficiency in business risk determination by 45%.

RoadPreppers Technologies
Lagos, Nigeria

Apr 2021 - May 2024

Founding Engineer

Owned product development lifecycle from 0 → 1, building features that supported 10x user growth during early-stage scaling. Led engineering on personalized onboarding systems that adapted user journeys based on goals and usage behavior. Optimized React codebase, reducing load times by 12% and enhancing overall application performance. Created reusable JavaScript code libraries, reducing development time by 50% and improving team efficiency. Collaborated with engineering team to develop a mobility algorithm that ensures accurate and up-to-date directions for over 100,000 concurrent users.

Atlens Limited
Lagos, Nigeria

Jan 2019 - Apr 2021

Software Engineer

Championed front-end best practices during code reviews, improving performance and maintainability across three Angular and React projects resulting in a 15%+ boost in load efficiency and faster feature delivery. Authored detailed architectural and functional specs to ensure clarity, alignment, and delivery standards across client projects helping teams ship high-quality, scalable features with fewer revisions. Built a full-featured CMS using TypeScript and React, seamlessly integrating with backend APIs, contributing to a 20% lift in customer acquisition and retention.

Education

Olabisi Onabanjo University

20182023
B.Eng. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
3.76/4.0 GPA

Academic Standing: 3.76/4.0 (WES) - First Class Degree (Top 1%)

Campus Ambassador for Finance and Technology

Research

Interests

Computer Vision
Responsible & Trustworthy AI
Reliable ML Systems
Applied Machine Learning
AI for Product Growth

Projects

Automatic Plate Number Recognition (APNR) System

2023
OpenCV
Python
Image Processing
Pattern Recognition
  • Designed and implemented full-featured APNR system using OpenCV with >77% accuracy on Nigerian plates
  • Built a curated registration database of Nigerian plate numbers for evaluation and error analysis
  • Performed performance benchmarking and validation against target success thresholds
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Skills

Frontend

TypeScript
React
Angular

Backend

Node.js
Express
Python
Django
MongoDB

AI ML

OpenAI
VertexAI

Cloud Infrastructure

AWS
Redis
Kafka

Data Stores

MySQL
DynamoDB

Other

OpenCV
SQS

Certificates

Secure Authentication
Network Architecture
Authorization
SDLC
API Design
API Security
Architectural Drivers
Architectural Patterns
Big Data
Systems Design
Microservices
Web Services API
Software Architecture
Observability
Distributed Systems

Awards & Recognition

Employee of the Year

2024
VertoFx (YC 2019)

Rising Star

2024
VertoFx (YC 2019)

Publications

Olajide, M. B., Alase, A. D., Obi, E. N., Kuponiyi, D. S., & Aina, O. A.