Software Engineering Intern at Kifiya Financial Technology

Collaborated in a 15+ member backend team to design and build a microservices rural fintech platform, enabling unified agent wallet, merchant payments, and service interoperability across Africa. Engineered secure, scalable backend services using Spring Boot, integrating with PostgreSQL for data persistence, Redis for caching, and Kafka for event-driven communication and service decoupling. Dockerized microservices and contributed to CI/CD pipelines enabling seamless deployment and modular scaling across the platform’s core components. Enhanced reporting system performance by implementing materialized views to precompute complex reports (12+ table joins) on replicated databases, reducing query execution time by ~80% and significantly lowering database load for admin requests.

Software Engineer Intern at Eskala Tech LLC

Directed a team of 5 backend developers to design and develop RESTful APIs using Go/Gin framework. Reviewed 20+ pull requests, ensuring code quality and reducing defects, and implemented Redis caching to improve system scalability and load time by 20%. Architected secure authentication solutions with JWT and OAuth, reducing login times by 15%, while integrating Gemini AI. Dockerized microservices and contributed to CI/CD pipelines enabling seamless deployment and modular scaling across the platform’s core components. Enhanced reporting system performance by implementing materialized views to precompute complex reports (12+ table joins) on replicated databases, reducing query execution time by ~80% and significantly lowering database load for admin requests.