Stephen Edache Paul

Software Quality Assurance Officer

January 2026 – Present

Wema Bank, Lagos, Nigeria

• Validate software with engineering and product teams before deployment, including work alongside the technical writing team on API and architecture documentation.

Technical Product Lead

October 2024 – December 2025

BineOps Innovation Technology Limited

• Led Bine, an appointment booking product, from roadmap and user research through delivery on a cloud backend.

Webmaster II, Adjunct Lecturer, Head of Training & Strategy

March 2023 – September 2024

Thomas Adewumi University, Kwara State

• Built a student portal used by 1,000+ students and taught computer science while advising Enactus TAU.
• Helped launch a Virtual Innovation Lab with Financial Services Innovators and kept the university website accessible and current.

Software Engineer

February 2022 – March 2023

Southern Fried Chicken Nigeria Limited

• Led developers building sales-agent training tools and an online ordering platform for supply and delivery.

Technology Officer

August 2021 – January 2022

Lendify & Kohwope Nigeria Limited

• Set the technology strategy across software, infrastructure, security, and data, and led the development team.

Web Developer (Intern)

July 2019 – December 2019

nHub Nigeria

• Turned Figma designs into interfaces with HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and jQuery.

Master of Business Administration (in view)

2027

Quantic School of Business and Technology

Aspire Leaders Program Fellow

2024

Aspire Institute, Harvard University

BSc (Hons) Computer Science, Second Class Upper

2021

Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria

• Coursework included human-computer interaction, data structures, algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cryptography.

Licensee & Lead Organizer, TEDxLokoja

October 2025 – Present

Theme: Confluence of Roots

Lead Organizer, DevFest Lokoja

2022 – Present

Google Developer Groups, Kogi State

Community Director, Startup Grind Abuja

August 2023 – Present

40+ fireside chats, panels, and meetups for 2,500+ attendees.

Lead, Google Developer Groups Lokoja

2020 – Present

Also organized TEDx Thomas Adewumi University in 2023 and Build With AI workshops.

Publications

• Process Automation for Instant Procurement of Cryptocurrencies, IJARCCE (2022).
• Machine Learning Model in Diagnosing Diabetes Mellitus among Women of Reproductive Age (2025).
• AI-Powered Conversations: The Diagnostic Potential of Chatbots in Mental Health Care (2025).

Honors

• #IAmRemarkable People’s Choice Award, 2nd place (2024).
• Google Developer Community Award (2024).
• Unleash Rwanda, Most Innovative Solution, Team Jabana (2023).
• NACOS North Central, Best Zonal Coordinator (2021).