Professional Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

Autochek Africa | Lagos Nigeria (Hybrid)
– Present
  • Led performance optimization of microservices, reducing deployment time to ~3 minutes and significantly lowering memory usage by auditing DB migrations.
  • Designed and maintained scalable NestJS microservices for loan processing, document workflows, and integrations.
  • Integrated external platforms (e.g., EmSigner, Orkes) automating secure document retrieval and webhooks.
  • Promoted code quality via SonarQube, increasing critical component test coverage.
NestJS PostgreSQL GRPC GCP

Full Stack Engineer & Team Lead

Indicina | Lagos, Nigeria (Remote)

Engineer of the Quarter (Q2 2022)

  • Led a 4-engineer team designing an open banking aggregator, securely exposing permissioned financial data.
  • Architected the system to support scalable, asynchronous data collection across multiple clients.
  • Achieved 97% document extraction accuracy using AWS Textract for credit scoring pipelines.
Laravel NestJS MongoDB AWS Kubernetes

Software Engineer

OT&T Consulting Limited | Lagos, Nigeria
  • Co-led the automation of the loan origination workflow transitioning it to a fully digital platform.
  • Built a web-based document management and loan approval platform using PHP and MySQL.
PHP Laravel MySQL

Technical Arsenal

Backend Development

TypeScript (NestJS, Node.js), PHP 8 (Laravel), Python (Flask)

Databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch

System Architecture

REST APIs, gRPC, Microservices, Workflow Orchestration (Orkes)

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (S3, EB, Textract), GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions

Performance

Redis, Caching, RabbitMQ, Message Brokers, Query Optimization

Quality & Monitoring

SonarQube, Prometheus, CI/CD pipelines