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Senior Backend Engineer

Building Production‑Ready Systems at Scale

6+ years designing, building, and deploying high-impact backend systems across fintech, healthtech, and AI. From national government payment infrastructure to hospital EMR platforms — I lead teams and ship.

6+

Years Experience

15+

Production Projects

200+

Hospitals Served

5+

Engineers Mentored

What I Do

Backend Development

Building robust APIs and microservices with Node.js, NestJS, Java, Spring Boot, Elixir, and FastAPI. Focused on scalability, security, and performance.

System Architecture

Designing distributed, event-driven microservices architectures that process millions of transactions — from government payment platforms to hospital EMRs.

Database Engineering

Expert in PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis. Query optimisation, indexing strategies, caching, and 3× performance improvements under production load.

Team Leadership

Led cross-functional engineering teams end-to-end, mentored junior developers, owned delivery timelines, and presented technical decisions to stakeholders.

Projects

15 projects found

RevOps — Government Payment Infrastructure
Fintech
2024/2025

RevOps — Government Payment Infrastructure

Led a team of engineers to build the largest government payment infrastructure, enabling agencies to generate and pay bills at national scale.

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Core Payment Platform
Fintech
2024

Core Payment Platform

Built a full payment platform integrating PSSPs including Interswitch, Flutterwave, Paystack, and Ercas with payment link generation and webhook notifications.

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PSSP Admin Portal
Fintech
2025

PSSP Admin Portal

Delivered a secure admin portal for PSSP onboarding with RBAC, public/private key management, and IP whitelisting.

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POS Payment Notification System
Fintech
2024

POS Payment Notification System

Engineered a real-time POS payment notification system using MQTT and NATS in a pub/sub IoT architecture.

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Location System & Email Notification
Fintech
2025

Location System & Email Notification

Built a dynamic global location management system and redesigned the email notification pipeline with retry logic across the codebase.

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Laboratory Information System (LIS)
HealthTech
2023

Laboratory Information System (LIS)

Led the design and development of the LIS module for Octocare EMR, powering laboratory workflows across 200+ hospitals.

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Radiology Information System (RIS)
HealthTech
2024

Radiology Information System (RIS)

Designed and delivered the RIS module for Octocare EMR with AWS S3 integration for medical imaging management.

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Referral & Commission Module
HealthTech
2024

Referral & Commission Module

Designed and developed a referral system enabling users to refer others, earn commissions, and receive payouts.

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AI
2024

CAMA360 — AI Exam Platform

Acted as CTO (Caption 1) leading a team of 3 engineers to build an AI-powered exam platform using RAG to auto-generate questions, administer tests, and grade students.

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Travel & Hospitality
2024

Gomonji — Travel Agency Platform

Acted as CTO (Caption 2) leading the architecture and delivery of a multi-tenancy travel platform enabling agencies to sign up, curate trips, and market them.

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Sport
2024

Spives — Football Academy Platform

Led backend engineering (Caption 3) on a multi-tenancy platform for football academies to showcase player talent profiles and connect with agents for club signings.

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Tech
2022

Internal Chat Application

Built a real-time internal chat tool with rooms, messaging, and file sharing — giving the company a fully-owned communication platform.

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Spendwise — AI Finance Tracker
AI
2025

Spendwise — AI Finance Tracker

Built an AI-powered personal finance app that tracks income and expenses and uses Google Gemini to analyse spending patterns.

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Personal Portfolio Website
Personal Project
2022

Personal Portfolio Website

Designed and built a full-stack personal portfolio site featuring a blog, admin dashboard, DevPath program, and book storefront.

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Tech
2020–2022

25+ Client Websites

Delivered over 25 production websites for diverse clients using WordPress, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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