Isaac Adewumi
Lagos, Nigeria|hi@enio.la|github.com/prettyirrelevant|in/isaac-adewumi
Software engineer with multiple years of experience building backend systems, developer tools, crypto payment infrastructure, and production web applications across blockchain, fintech, and open source. I've spent much of my career at Rotki, cofounded a crypto payments product, won several global hackathons, and shipped side projects in Rust, Go, and TypeScript.
Experience
Python Backend Engineer at Rotki Solutions GmbH
Oct 2024 - Mar 2026
Remote, Berlin
- Built Solana support across Rotki's backend, including spam token filtering, transaction decoding, and chain-specific asset handling.
- Designed and implemented historical balance tracking from scratch using archive node queries, balance snapshotting, cache invalidation, and normalized accounting logic.
- Refactored fiat valuation logic from hardcoded USD assumptions into user-selected currency support across 10+ API endpoints.
- Added and maintained protocol integrations for Balancer v1/v2, Aura Finance, Beefy, Yearn, StakeDAO, and other DeFi systems.
- Expanded exchange and wallet support with Coinbase ED25519 API key handling, Binance Convert trade support, and additional transaction parsing paths.
Software Engineer at Unyte
Jul 2024 - Oct 2024
Nigeria
- Built backend features for insurance policy management and provider onboarding on an API-first insurance infrastructure platform.
- Developed workflows that helped businesses embed and distribute insurance products across African markets.
- Worked across backend and product requirements to turn insurance operations into maintainable APIs and internal tooling.
Technical Cofounder & Lead Engineer at FlashPay
May 2022 - 2024
Part-time, Remote
- Cofounded FlashPay, one of the early Algorand payment-link platforms, and helped raise over $40K from the Algorand Foundation.
- Led development of the Django backend service for payment links, merchant APIs, API keys, wallet setup, transaction verification, webhooks, and revenue reporting.
- Built payment lifecycle infrastructure for creating, tracking, verifying, and reconciling Algorand-based payments.
- Developed the JavaScript SDK used by merchants to initialize payments, configure supported assets, handle callbacks, and integrate FlashPay into client applications.
- Designed developer-facing API flows and maintained integration documentation for merchants accepting ALGO, USDC, USDT, and other Algorand-based assets.
- Owned backend architecture, SDK design, API flows, and technical delivery as technical cofounder and lead engineer.
Python Backend Engineer at Rotki Solutions GmbH
Apr 2022 - Apr 2023
Remote, Berlin
- Replaced Rotki's Uniswap V3 subgraph dependency with a fully on-chain data retrieval approach.
- Reduced Electron application memory usage by ~30% by revamping asset management endpoints and response payload handling.
- Added support for Average Cost Basis and HIFO accounting methods.
- Integrated transaction decoding for Uniswap V2/V3, Sushiswap, Curve, MakerDAO, and related DeFi protocols.
- Added Taproot BTC address support, per-user notes, and spam NFT filtering.
Full Stack Engineer at DeCHO
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Remote, Lagos
- Built a Swift native module to integrate the Algorand SDK into a React Native application.
- Developed backend API endpoints with Django REST Framework for core product workflows.
- Implemented wallet integration flows for the web application.
- Contributed across mobile, web, and backend surfaces for an Algorand grant-backed product.
Software Engineer at Saber Creative Agency
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Remote
- Built backend endpoints and UI components for a hospitality management application using Django.
- Set up CI workflows and improved test coverage across core application paths.
- Worked across frontend and backend tasks in a small delivery-focused engineering team.
Django Developer Intern at Mul-T-Lock Nigeria
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Hybrid, Lagos
- Built a product landing page using Django.
- Worked on an authentication system for IoT device integration using Django Channels.
Freelance Software Developer
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Remote
- Built web applications and backend systems for clients using Django, JavaScript, TypeScript, Flask, and other web technologies.
- Developed Django-based e-commerce websites, including product catalogues, checkout flows, admin tooling, and payment-related workflows.
- Built a real-time end-to-end encrypted CLI chat application for client use, covering message transport, encryption flow, and terminal-based user interaction.
- Worked directly with clients to scope requirements, deliver production-ready features, and maintain deployed applications.
Hackathon Wins
- BridgeBloc at DevX EMEA : won $9,000 (Circle + Polygon)
- Brazen at Anchor Embedded Finance Hackathon : 1st place, won ₦1,000,000
- Optimart at XRPL Hackathon : winner
- ContractWatch at Scroll v0rtex Hackathon : prize winner
- Wrapped Naira at Scroll v0rtex Hackathon : prize winner
Projects
- Kizami : Rust service for block-by-timestamp lookups across 30+ EVM chains
- Decodify : Chrome extension for human-readable Etherscan transaction decoding
- Wakaru : Client-side bank statement analyzer with natural language queries
- Guessx : Real-time multiplayer guessing game for 2-20 players
- Neuron : BLE-based attendance system using ESP32 (final year project)
Skills
Education
B.Sc. Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University
2018 - 2024