Profile

6+ years building backend systems across ed-tech, real estate, logistics, and currently doing core banking and crypto things.

Professional Experience
Finray⁠, Senior Backend Engineer
Sep 2024 – present | Limassol, Cyprus
  • •Came on as the 3rd backend engineer and helped lay the foundation for a core banking platform handling both crypto and fiat transactions

  • •Built the customer onboarding module from the ground up, covering account creation, verification, and lifecycle management, and wired in Swiss-Sign for identity verification

  • •Helped shape our auth system, including role-based access control (RBAC) across API endpoints and record-level permissions

  • •Co-designed a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) that lets customer admins define their own transaction rules and business logic without touching the codebase

  • •Integrated the DSL into existing core systems, allowing dynamic transaction processing without redeploying services

  • •Built out our notification service, handling everything from transactional alerts to security events and user-triggered notifications

  • •Designed the infrastructure behind user and customer preferences — giving people control over their notification, security, and account settings

  • •Implemented account statement generation and invoice creation

  • •Code reviews, onboarding new backend engineers, correcting Claude :)
    • REIPrintMail⁠, Senior Backend Engineer
    May 2023 – Sep 2024 | USA
  • •Built an aggregator service for sourcing mailing lists for real estate brokers from third-party services and internal services.

  • •Designed a sorting and merging algorithm for sourced PDFs that cut processing time significantly — letting the PDF service handle a much larger volume of mailing lists

  • •Built a service for efficiently fetching street view and satellite images across a large dataset of real estate properties

  • •Built the order service to manage customer orders end-to-end, and integrated Stripe to handle payments

  • •Owned the full customer registration flow — email sign-up and sign-in, Google social auth, customer invitations, and more

  • •Developed an i18n translation service implemented across all customer-facing APIs.

    • Fairmoney⁠, Backend Engineer (Contract)
    May 2024 – Aug 2024 | Nigeria
  • •Migrated user loan events for Nigeria and Uganda from Ruby to Go.
  • •Transitioned our SMS application from Ruby to Go, incorporating voice OTP functionality and integrating WhatsApp.
  • •Developed an internal solution for card tokenization and processing card charges.
  • •Contributed to the development of user savings features.
    • Naurix Technologies⁠, Lead Backend Engineer
    Jul 2021 – Jan 2023 | Sweden
  • •Led the backend development of a grocery delivery service.

  • •Responsible for setting up infrastructure, and integrating with existing ones for our clients.

  • •Provided ongoing support and conducted routine maintenance for both new and existing clients.

  • •Played a pivotal role in the recruitment process by conducting interviews, hiring, and effectively onboarding engineers to the team.

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  • •Oversaw code reviews and managed deployments of our servers, ensuring smooth operations, proactive monitoring, and effective troubleshooting measures.
    • Female Invest⁠, Backend Engineer
    Jun 2022 – Nov 2022 | Denmark
  • •Core contributor in the development of the backend for a new e-learning application.

  • •Contributed to developing and publishing the client SDK used by the mobile team to access internal APIs.

  • •Developed and maintained API contracts that defined request parameters and response types to be obeyed by the client and the server.

  • •Built services for async communication, video streaming, and storage using Azure Media Services.

  • •Built a service to track customers' course progress and behavior, providing insight into the learning experience for the purpose of improvement.

  • •Worked on the client dashboard used by the content team to upload and manage media content.
    • Innovation Upstream⁠, Full Stack Developer
    Mar 2021 – Feb 2022 | Canada

    Worked with a team of engineers to build Rubix⁠, a crypto exchange application.

  • •Developed microservices that handled card and bank payments, and sending of transactional emails.

  • •Implemented client-side payment processes for credit card and bank payments in the client application.

  • •Facilitated onboarding of new team members and ensure their proficiency in internal tools, processes, and procedures.

  • •Contributed to the development of a new component library for ApeSwap⁠.
    • Oct 2019 – Sep 2021 | Nigeria

    Worked with a small team to maintain the in-house library (Dynamo⁠), a highly scalable and configurable SaaS solution for the company's school manager service.

  • •Revamped the core library and server codebase of Dynamo, leading to more comprehensible code and simplifying the addition of new features.

  • •Developed and deployed a new scheduler in Dynamo's API server, enabling students and administrators to schedule hostel bookings remotely and resolving previous downtime issues during bookings.

  • •Restructured and redesigned internal tools for increased usability, resulting in higher productivity for my team.

  • •Led the rewrite of the admin client using React, resulting in quicker page load times and heightened user experience for the operations and customer support team.

  • •Collaborated with support teams to diagnose and resolve issues with integrated applications on the Dynamo platform.

  • •Oversaw the server and database administration for both development and production environments, ensuring secure and stable access for all developers.

  • •Guide new team members through the onboarding process, providing support to ensure a smooth transition and fast ramp-up.
    • Skills
    Go (primary, 5+ years)TypeScriptNodeJS (NestJS, Express, Koa)SQL (Postgres, MySQL)NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, FireStore, Cassandra)Version Control (Git, GitHub, Gitlab)DockerKubernetesCloud Services (AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean, Linode, Fly.io)GRPCNGINXRedisWebSocketsGraphQLNATSKafkaRabbitMQWebRTC
    Interests
    CinematographyFormula 1PorscheMusic compositionChessPhilosophyArtMathPuzzlesHikingTravelling
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