Profile

6+ years doing backend things across fintech, ed-tech, real estate, logistics, and EV charging. Primarily working with Go⁠ and TypeScript⁠, and currently checking out Zig⁠.

Professional Experience
Senior Backend Engineer, Finray⁠
09/2024 – present | Limassol, Cyprus
  • •Joined as the third backend engineer, helping lay the foundation for a core banking platform supporting crypto and fiat transactions.
  • •Built the customer onboarding module from the ground up, covering account creation, verification, KYB, signatory invitation, and integrated with Swiss-Sign for identity verification for our client in Switzerland.
  • •Co-designed and integrated a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) enabling customer-defined transaction rules and dynamic processing without redeployments.
  • •Configured the DSLs for internal/outgoing fiat transactions.
  • •Built out the internal notification service that handled transaction, customer, user, and system events.
  • •Built the user and customer preferences system, giving people control over their notifications, security, and account settings.
  • •Implemented account statement generation and invoice creation module.
  • •Refactored the database layer, deprecating GORM⁠ in favor of SQLC⁠ for static queries and Squirrel⁠ for dynamic queries. I should write a blog about this :)
    • Senior Backend Engineer, REIPrintMail⁠
    05/2023 – 09/2024 | Missouri, USA
  • •Built an aggregator microservice that sourced mailing lists for real estate brokers from third-party services and internal services.
  • •Designed and built 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 microservice that fetched street-view and satellite images across a large dataset of real estate properties.
  • •Built the order microservice to manage the end-to-end customer order lifecycle, integrating Stripe for payment processing
  • •Owned the full customer registration flow; email sign-up and sign-in, Google social auth, and customer invitations.
  • •Developed an i18n translation service implemented across all customer-facing APIs.
    • Backend Engineer (Contract), Fairmoney⁠
    05/2024 – 08/2024 | Lagos, Nigeria
  • •Migrated loan event processing and SMS services from Ruby to Go, adding voice OTP and WhatsApp integration.
  • •Built an internal card tokenization and payment processing service.
  • •Contributed to user savings features and related platform improvements.
    • Lead Backend Engineer, Naurix Technologies⁠
    07/2021 – 01/2023 | Örebro, Sweden
  • •Led backend development for a grocery delivery platform.
  • •Managed production deployments, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting across new and existing client environments.
  • •Led technical hiring, onboarding, and code reviews, helping maintain engineering quality and team growth.
    • Backend Engineer, Female Invest⁠
    06/2022 – 11/2022 | Copenhagen, Denmark
  • •Core contributor to the backend of an e-learning platform, building scalable APIs and services.
  • •Developed and published a client SDK and maintained API contracts between client and server.
  • •Built asynchronous communication, video streaming, and storage services using Azure Media Services.
  • •Developed course progress and analytics services and contributed to the content management dashboard.
    • Full Stack Developer, Innovation Upstream⁠
    03/2021 – 02/2022 | Winnipeg, Canada
  • •Developed microservices for authentication and authorization, card and bank payments for our client Rubix⁠.
  • •Implemented client-side payment flows for card and bank transactions.
  • •Contributed to ApeSwap’s⁠ component library.
    • 10/2019 – 09/2021 | Enugu, Nigeria

  • •Maintained and modernized Dynamo⁠, a configurable SaaS solution for the company's school manager service.
  • •Built and deployed a new scheduling system for hostel bookings, eliminating recurring downtime and enabling remote bookings for students and administrators.
  • •Rebuilt the admin client in React, improving page performance and usability for operations and customer support teams.
  • •Managed development/production infrastructure and databases, troubleshot platform integrations.
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    Education

    Bachelors of Engineering, Computer Engineering

    Enugu State of Science and Technology⁠
    10/2015 – 08/2018 | Enugu, Nigeria
    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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