Adedamola Ajibola Wins NITA 2025 DevOps Excellence Award

Fadekemi Ajakaiye

Adedamola Ajibola, a DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer at Interswitch Group, has been honoured with the “Excellence in DevOps & Infrastructure Automation Professional of the Year” award at the 11th Nigeria Technology Awards (NITA) 2025, recently held in Lagos.

The award recognises individuals who have demonstrated exceptional technical leadership, innovation, and measurable impact in advancing Nigeria’s digital technology ecosystem. Ajibola was selected for his contributions to the design, stabilisation, and scaling of mission-critical fintech infrastructure that supports millions of daily transactions across Africa.

Ajibola’s work focuses on improving the reliability, performance, and automation of large-scale digital platforms operating in highly regulated financial environments. His engineering efforts have helped strengthen the stability of payment systems relied upon by banks, fintech companies, merchants, and end users across the continent.

Speaking on the recognition, Ajibola expressed appreciation to the organisers and highlighted the importance of resilient digital infrastructure in Africa’s rapidly growing fintech landscape.
“This award reflects the importance of building reliable and scalable infrastructure to support Africa’s digital payments ecosystem. I am honoured to be recognised and remain committed to advancing automation, reliability, and infrastructure excellence,” he said.

At Interswitch, Ajibola plays a key role in the engineering and optimisation of several core platforms, including the Switching Infrastructure, Interswitch Lending Service (ILS), SmartCard Processing Systems, and ACI-based payment routing platforms. His contributions have supported improved transaction success rates, reduced system latency, faster deployment cycles, and enhanced platform reliability at scale.

According to the NITA awards panel, Ajibola stood out among nominees due to his measurable contributions to high-availability systems, DevOps automation, and large-scale platform performance improvements within Nigeria’s financial services sector.

The Nigeria Technology Awards (NITA), now in its 11th year, is one of the country’s premier platforms for recognising excellence and leadership in the technology industry. The annual event brings together innovators, executives, entrepreneurs, and organisations driving Nigeria’s digital transformation.

Ajibola’s recognition highlights the critical role of infrastructure and reliability engineering in enabling the growth of Africa’s fintech and digital economy and underscores the importance of technical leadership in building systems that operate reliably at national and continental scale.