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Marygold&Co. offers all-in-one payment services and a personalized banking app. A secure way to send, receive, spend, and save with no banking fees or minimums.

- Developed robust APIs using the Golang Gin Framework, enhancing the functionality and performance of a personalized banking app.
- Integrated trading services with Drivewealth to enable secure and efficient buy/sell stock transactions.
- Implemented Kafka for logging and real-time data streaming, improving data processing and analytics capabilities.
- Led the reconciliation process for trading activities, ensuring accuracy and compliance with financial regulations.
- Utilized Backstage for effective project management and collaboration, streamlining development workflows.
- Deployed Datadog for comprehensive monitoring and performance analysis to enhance system reliability.
- Maintained clear documentation to support seamless knowledge transfer and operational clarity.
- Aligned technical developments with the company’s miss

Backend Engineer

Anitrack uses its management tool to monitor livestock health and movement, notify the farmers immediately and link them with animal services. Livestock production is an important feature in Africa, contributing largely in meeting food needs, providing draft power and generating cash income for both small, medium and large scale farmers.

- Built prototype IoT devices with a printed circuit board and Arduino Board.
- Built a receiver for transmitting core body temperature and atmospheric temperature to the backend.
- Developed Backend with flask for storing the data from the devices.
- Deployed REST API to serverless with Zappa.
- Hosted RDS for storing the data and processing the data.

Tech Stack: Arduino, Flask Python, Django, GCP, Zappa Serverless, AWS RDS

Software Engineer Intern

Inforservice was my first startup idea I worked on with SMS gateway and content delivery for students and organizations to receive information and also provided geolcation-based content.

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Software Engineer

Subcoin is a platform that empowers creators to manage and process their premium content with ethereum on a decentralized app.

- Directed backend development using Django REST Framework for a platform that empowers creators to manage premium content with Ethereum, ensuring secure transactions.
- Researched Ethereum's decentralized system to inform the development of innovative, secure content management solutions.
- Implemented Peer-to-Peer payment systems to enhance platform capabilities and streamline user interactions.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate backend functionalities with iOS applications, ensuring a cohesive product experience.
- Authored and maintained clean, efficient code while adhering to industry best practices to deliver high performance.
- Applied agile methodologies to manage project timelines and deliverables, consistently meeting deadlines.
- Documented technical solutions clearly to facilitate seamless knowledge transfer between team membe

Senior Software Engineer

- Developed a full-stack app with laravel 4.3 for broadcasting notifications to students via SMS.
- Developed a full-stack app for an insurance company to track customers and record transactions.

Tech Stack: Laravel, PHP, Fortrabbit, DigitalOcean, Java fx, Java, PHP PDO,

Software Developer

BezoMoney is a digital savings platform that helps you save effectively, access bulk capital through group savings and build a savings and credit history. We provide an e-wallet for personal savings, a group e-wallet for group savings, and access to formal financial services.

- Built USSD application for customers to interact with the service.
- Built Version 1.0 RESTAPI for recording transactions and processing payments with Mobile Money Integration.
- Deployed Version 1.0 to AWS Fargate service.

Website - www.bezomoney.com

Tech Lead

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- Developed a REST API for recording bookings for salon owners.
- Integrated Payment for easy management for salon owners.
- Deployed Docker container RESTAPI using Django.

Architected Scalable Microservices: Designed and implemented scalable, event-driven backend systems using microservice architecture to support high-throughput financial transactions.

API Development & Integration: Led the development of secure, high-performance RESTful APIs for mobile and web fintech applications; integrated third-party services, including payment gateways, identity verification, and fraud detection tools.

Database Design & Optimization: Designed relational and PostgreSQL optimized query performance, and ensured data consistency across services.

Real-Time Event Processing: Implemented asynchronous messaging with Kafka to process transactions and trigger alerts, notifications, and fraud analysis in real time.

Monitoring & Incident Response: Deployed observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry to monitor service health, track performance metrics, and proactively respond to system incidents.

Stakeholder Collaboration: Worked closely with product managers

I worked on a backend with Gin Framework to support crypto payments processing with infra and BSC API service to verify and validate payments and connected the backend with smart contract abi file to read specific smart contract functions to change the status of the transactions.

- Engineered a robust backend system using the Gin Framework to support crypto payment processing, enhancing transaction efficiency
and reliability.
- Integrated BSC API services to verify and validate payments, ensuring secure and accurate transaction processing.
- Connected the backend with smart contract ABI files, enabling the reading and execution of smart contract functions for real-time
transaction status updates.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate backend services with existing infrastructure, improving overall system performance.
- Developed and maintained clean, efficient code according to industry best practices to ensure high performance and reliability.
- Conducted thorough t

<p>- Architected Scalable Microservices: Designed and implemented scalable, event-driven backend systems using microservice architecture to support high-throughput financial transactions.

- API Development &amp; Integration: Led the development of secure and performant RESTful APIs for mobile and web fintech applications; integrated third-party services such as payment gateways, identity verification, and fraud detection tools.

- Security &amp; Compliance: Ensured the backend infrastructure followed security best practices (e.g., OWASP, PCI DSS) and implemented data encryption, rate-limiting, and audit logging to safeguard sensitive financial data.

- Database Design &amp; Optimization: Designed relational and NoSQL database schemas (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB), optimized query performance, and ensured data consistency across services.

- Real-Time Event Processing: Implemented asynchronous messaging systems with Kafka for processing transactions and triggering alerts, notifications, or fraud analy</p>

Backend Engineer Lead

Golang Backend Engineer, Fintech, web3

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