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Backend systems and APIs engineered for scale, reliability, and security
I design and build backend architectures, APIs, and data services that power production systems. Specialties include payment integrations, microservices, background processing, observability, and database design for high-throughput applications.
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2025
Architecture Award
Reliable Systems

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2024
Performance Prize
Low-latency Systems

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2023
Honorable Mention
Awwwards

2024 - Present
Independent / Contractor
Developed ReD Market On, ReD Tickets, ReDPay and contributed to SaltHub, Ngaphaya, Globescope, VirtueAroma and Datourism websites.
2021 - 2024
Backend Developer at Callpay
Worked on payment systems, integrations, and backend services.
2019 - 2020
Backend Developer at DittoHire
Built and maintained core backend services and APIs for hiring platform features.
2018 - 2019
Junior Full Stack Developer at Creative Studio
Built backend systems and databases for web applications serving startups and agencies.
2015 - 2018
Bachelor of Computer Science, Richfield Institute
Focused on Software Engineering, Database Design, and Web Development.
Design and implement robust REST or GraphQL APIs with clear versioning, documentation, and reliable client contracts. Includes request validation, pagination, rate limiting, and error handling.
Architect and build microservice-based systems, service-to-service communication (gRPC, REST), service discovery, and fault-tolerant patterns to improve scale and maintainability.
Schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, migrations, and working with relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB) datastores for high throughput systems.
Implement secure authentication and authorization (OAuth2, JWT, SSO), encryption-in-transit and at-rest, secrets management, and secure coding practices including threat modelling and security reviews.
Design and implement reliable background processing using queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis), idempotent workers, retry strategies, and dead-letter handling for asynchronous workloads.
Containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment strategies to production with rollbacks and blue/green or canary releases.
Set up logging, metrics (Prometheus), tracing (OpenTelemetry), alerting, and SLIs/SLOs to keep systems reliable and observable in production.
Integrate third-party APIs, payment gateways, webhooks, and build reliable payment flows with reconciliation, idempotency, and security best practices.
Profiling, bottleneck analysis, caching strategies, horizontal scaling, and capacity planning to improve latency and throughput under load.
Technical reviews, architecture design, migration planning, and mentoring teams on backend best practices to deliver reliable and maintainable systems.

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