Omo Ojeomogha
Head of Server Engineering - Cash App Lending @Cash App
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Server Engineering - Cash App Lending @Cash App
Engineering leader for Cash App Lending, overseeing Borrow (flagship micro-loans product), Retro (post purchase BNPL conversion) and AfterPay on Cash App Card (pre-purchase financing), and the core Lending Platform; led a 18-person organization structured into 4 high-ownership product and platform teams with Tech Leads and an EM→ Scaled backend systems powering a multi-hundred-million-dollar lending business, supporting exponential growth in MAUs, originations volume, and gross profit→ Evolved the Lending organization toward a hyperproductive model: small, cross-functional pods with end-to-end ownership across product, platform, and financial systems, reducing dependency-driven execution drag → Leading in the AI era, operated as a hands-on leader, staying close to architecture and tooling while coaching leads to own roadmap, quality, and cross-functional influence → Embedded AI-assisted development workflows across the team, leveraging code-generation, automated triage, and agent-supported maintenance to increase engineering throughput and reduce time-to-launch → Shifted the org from feature-delivery cycles to outcome-oriented execution, aligning team-level metrics directly to credit growth, reliability, and financial correctness→ Elevated platform strategy across originations, revenue recognition, settlement, and capital markets integrations, ensuring scalable financial infrastructure capable of supporting new lending surfaces→ Reduced organizational friction by challenging legacy dependency models and pushing ownership closer to builders→ Strengthened reliability and production resilience through automation-first incident response, improved observability, and AI-augmented on-call support → Spearheaded team health and engagement initiatives, leading to 15% increase in team cohesion→ Partnered with Product, Risk, Finance, Compliance, and Capital Markets to balance aggressive growth with disciplined risk management in a highly regulated environment
EDUCATION
California State University, Northridge
M.Sc, Computer Science
University of Southern California (USC)
Graduate Course Work, Computer Security
Babcock University, Ogun State, NIGERIA
B.Sc. (HONS), Computer Science
SKILLS
ABOUT OMO OJEOMOGHA
Accomplished engineering leader with over 15 years of experience driving innovation and growth in the fintech and financial services industry. Prior leadership experience at Stripe, BlackRock, J.P. Morgan & Deloitte, Wave Mobile Money. Demonstrated success in spearheading transformative product development initiatives, optimizing engineering performance, and fostering a culture of Diversity & Inclusion. Adept at mentoring emerging leaders and aligning technical strategies with overarching business goals. Currently, as Head of Server Engineering for Cash App Lending, I am dedicated to advancing inclusive and flexible access to money.Outside of work, I enjoy traveling, particularly the feeling of being ft in the sky. I have an active interest in FinTech in emerging markets, particularly Africa. I have hosted full day tech talks to ~100 kids in Lagos, Nigeria introducing them to emerging technologies (AI, VR, Machine Learning, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). I was once a teacher in my past life for a year, teaching Computer Science & Mathematics to grades 7, 8 & 9 :)
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