Personal details

Wale - Remote back-end developer

Wale

Based in: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Timezone: West Central Africa (UTC+1)

Summary

Backend developer building scalable solutions to problems

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Invision | Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
Go (Golang)
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
  • Optimized the migrator API used to convert customers from older versions of Invisionapp, reducing conversion time by 30%.

● Worked on an AWS cost savings initiative which helped reduce the AWS monthly bill by 20%.

● Made improvements to the migrator API, ensuring it was working optimally.

Engineering Lead
Bento Africa | Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
Node.js
MongoDB
TypeScript
Docker
Circleci
Terraform
Nuxt.js
Go (Golang)
Vue.js

I lead DevOps operations setting up infrastructure on AWS using Terraform to manage state, setting up our application load balancer, setting up code deployment pipeline using CircleCI and AWS Codedeploy for continuous delivery.

I architectured and built our data ingestion service(Inform) using Golang which is used to store credit information.

I implemented feature flags and configuration that allows dynamically enabling/disabling third party services.

Education

Bells University of Technology
Bachelor's degreeComputer Science
Sep 2011 - Apr 2016

Personal Projects

2019
GraphQL
Terraform
Go (Golang)
Gbedu is a music streaming platform that provides localised music content based on user location and ability for upcoming artists to pitch their songs into popular playlists.