Femi Aluko

Co-founder/CEO Chowdeck (YC S22)

Co-founder

Chowdeck· Summer 2022🇳🇬 Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria

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2021Co-founder· Chowdeck

Founder · since 2021

Company

Chowdeck

Role

Co-Founder and CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

Lagos State, Nigeria

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Chowdeck

On-demand food delivery for Africa

Summer 2022

Experience

Career

Chowdeck
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CEO · Lagos State, Nigeria · 2021 – Present
2021
Paystack
Principal Engineer · Lagos State, Nigeria · 2020 – 2022
2020
Paystack
Technical Lead, Payment Rails Engineering · Lagos State, Nigeria · 2020
2020
Paystack
Engineering Manager, Backend Core Engineering · Lagos State, Nigeria · 2019
2019
Paystack
Senior Software Engineer · Ikeja · 2017 – 2019
2017
Shopping Internet Services
Team Lead · Lekki · 2016 – 2017
2016
Hutbay
Software Developer · Lagos · 2015 – 2016
2015
Softblue Nigeria Limited
Software Engineer · Lagos · 2013 – 2015
2013
Toptech Engineering Ltd
Intern, Field Supports and Project Department · Lagos · 2013 – 2014
2013

Bio

Femi is the co-founder and CEO of Chowdeck. He was a former Principal Engineer at Paystack, an African payments company acquired by Stripe in 2020. When he started at Paystack in 2017 (as the fifth engineer and the first Core Payments Engineer), he was responsible for building the core payment infrastructure for multiple payment methods. As a Principal Engineer, he was in charge of designing multiple core systems like the circuit breaker for routing over 100k transactions daily.