Professional Experience
Finray⁠, Senior Backend Engineer
  • •Joined as the 3rd backend engineer, helping build a core banking platform supporting crypto and fiat transactions

    • Sep 2024 – presentLimassol, Cyprus
  • •Built and maintained customer onboarding module, ensuring secure account creation, verification, and lifecycle management, also intergrated third-party identity verification (Swiss-Sign), etc

  • •Contributed to our authentication and authorization systems, including RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) for exposed endpoints and record-level access to records

  • •Contributed to a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for defining transaction rules and actions, enabling flexible configuration of business logic for both crypto and fiat operations for our customers

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

  • •Implemented our notification services (email/​system alerts) to support transactional, security, and user-initiated events

  • •Implemented our user and customer preferences infrastructure, allowing configurable notification, security, and account settings

  • •Implemented account statements and invoice generation

  • •Conducted code reviews, improving code quality, consistency, and system reliability across the backend team

    • Tech Stack: Golang, Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker, GRPC, AWS

    REIPrintMail⁠, Senior Backend Engineer
  • •Built an aggregator service for sourcing mailing lists for real estate brokers from third-party services and internal services.

    • May 2023 – Sep 2024USA
  • •Implemented an algorithm for sorting and merging sourced PDFs, resulting in a reduction in processing time, enabling the PDF service to handle more mailing lists.

  • •Built an order service for managing customer orders and integrated Stripe for payments.

  • •Built a service to efficiently retrieve street view and satellite images of real estate properties within a large dataset.

  • •Implemented the complete customer registration flow encompassing email sign-up and sign-in, social sign-in with Google, customer invitation functionalities, and more.

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

  • •Wrote API specs and documentation for each service I contributed to, and helped prepare the deployment environments.

  • •Participated in code reviews and pair programming sessions.

    • Tech Stack: Golang, NestJS, Postgres, Prisma, Supabase, Redis, Docker, GRPC, GCP

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    Fairmoney⁠, Backend Engineer (Contract)
  • •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.
    • May 2024 – Aug 2024Nigeria
  • •Developed an internal solution for card tokenization and processing card charges.
  • •Contributed to the development of user savings features.

    • Tech Stack: Golang, Ruby, Postgres, MySQL, Firebase, AWS, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes

    Naurix Technologies⁠, Lead Backend Engineer
  • •Led the backend development of a grocery delivery service.

    • Jul 2021 – Jan 2023Sweden
  • •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.

  • •Oversaw code reviews and managed deployments of our servers, ensuring smooth operations, proactive monitoring, and effective troubleshooting measures.

    • Tech Stack: Golang, NodeJS, Typescript, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, Docker, GCP

    Female Invest⁠, Backend Engineer
  • •Core contributor in the development of the backend for a new e-learning application.

    • Jun 2022 – Nov 2022Denmark
  • •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.

    • Tech Stack: NodeJS, Typescript, React, MySQL, Docker, Azure

    Innovation Upstream⁠, Full Stack Developer

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

    Mar 2021 – Feb 2022Canada
  • •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.

    • Tech Stack: Golang, NodeJS, Typescript, gRPC, GraphQL, Firestore, Docker, React

    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.

    Oct 2019 – Sep 2021Nigeria
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  • •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.

    • Tech Stack: NodeJS, Typescript, MongoDB, React

    Skills
    TypeScriptJavaScriptGolangNodeJS (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
    PorscheFormula 1CinematographyMovie directionMusic compositionPhilosophyChessArtMathPuzzlesHikingTravellingDistributed Systems
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