Chika Obi
Staff engineer, Flutterwave
Rewriting the payments gateway in Rust. Will talk about what we learned (and what we didn't).
Saturday 17 · May 2026 · 2pm
Build Lagos · Spring 2026
A Saturday afternoon for people who ship
Half a dozen working engineers, designers and operators from across Lagos share what they're building, what broke, and what they'd do differently.
When
Saturday 17 · May 2026 · 2pm
Doors 1:30pm · Talks start 2pm
Where
Co-Creation Hub
294 Herbert Macaulay Way, Yaba, Lagos
City
Lagos
Free & friendly
The idea
Why we do this.
Build Lagos started as a Whatsapp group. Once a quarter we get in a room and learn from people actually shipping things. No sales pitches, no panels, no sponsors pretending to be thought leaders.
The afternoon
Four hours. Six talks. Zero panels.
1:30pm
Doors
Coffee, pastries, shake hands.
2:00pm
Chika Obi — Rewriting a payments gateway
Chika Obi
2:30pm
Ifeoma Nwosu — Dashboards that feel like yours
Ifeoma Nwosu
3:00pm
Tunde Adeyemi — 0 → 400 users in six weeks
Tunde Adeyemi
3:30pm
Break
More coffee. Meet your neighbours.
4:00pm
Amaka Eze — Hiring backend engineers in Lagos
Amaka Eze
4:30pm
Kunle Ade — Three outages, one lesson
Kunle Ade
5:00pm
Fatima Bello — Catching fraud with boring SQL
Fatima Bello
5:30pm
Drinks
Sponsored by Paystack.
Speakers
Six operators. One afternoon.
Ifeoma Nwosu
Design lead, Paystack
On why most African fintech dashboards feel the same — and the small moves that make one feel yours.
Tunde Adeyemi
Founder, Ogún
Took an internal tool public. 0 → 400 users in six weeks with no ads.
Amaka Eze
Head of engineering, Fez
On hiring backend engineers when you can't pay SF rates and you don't want to.
Kunle Ade
Staff SRE, Moniepoint
The three outages that taught us what 'reliable' actually means.
Fatima Bello
Data scientist, Kuda
How we caught ₦2B in fraud before it shipped — mostly with boring SQL.
With thanks to
Friends of the room
Paystack
CcHub
Good to know
Questions, answered
Will talks be recorded?
Yes. We publish the recordings two weeks after the event on YouTube and our newsletter.
Is there parking?
Paid parking next door at UNILAG sports complex. Uber is easier.