Summary
Software engineer with 5 years of experience building backend services and APIs in TypeScript and Go. Comfortable owning features from design to production, and known for making slow systems fast and flaky ones reliable.
Experience
Software Engineer II—Northbeam Logistics · Manchester (hybrid) · 2023 – Present
- Rebuilt the shipment-tracking API in Go, cutting p95 latency from 900 ms to 180 ms for 2 million daily requests.
- Designed an event-driven pipeline (Kafka, PostgreSQL) that replaced nightly batch jobs and gave customers live delivery updates.
- Introduced contract tests between 6 services, reducing integration incidents by about half over two quarters.
- Mentor two junior engineers through weekly pairing and code review.
Software Engineer—Brightpath Learning · Lagos, Nigeria (remote) · 2021 – 2023
- Built the payments service (Node.js, Stripe and Paystack) that processed subscriptions in 4 currencies.
- Moved CI from 25-minute builds to 8 minutes by parallelising tests and caching dependencies.
- Shipped an offline-first sync feature that kept lessons available on unstable mobile networks.
Education
B.Eng. Computer Engineering—University of Benin · 2020
Skills
Languages: TypeScript, Go, Python, SQL
Backend: Node.js, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, REST, gRPC
Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions
Certifications
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate — Amazon Web Services · 2024