Awesome Bassey
I’m Awesome Bassey, a software engineer and technical lead with 5+ years of experience designing, building, reviewing, debugging, and deploying production-grade web systems.
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I’m Awesome Bassey, a software engineer and technical lead with 5+ years of experience designing, building, reviewing, debugging, and deploying production-grade web systems. I enjoy taking complex engineering problems—like system architecture trade-offs, REST API and database design, or performance optimization—and turning them into clear, practical implementation guidance for teams.
I’ve led cross-functional delivery across SaaS and financial products in Nigeria, the United States, and Zambia, working with engineers across frontend, backend, data, and design. I’m hands-on with Node.js/TypeScript stacks, PostgreSQL and other data stores, and cloud infrastructure on AWS, and I care a lot about maintainability, operational reliability, and strong engineering communication through documentation and code reviews.
- 2 years' experience
- Joined January 2026
Skills· 15
Languages
- EnglishAdvanced
Industry experience
- Software & Internet
- Professional Services
- Media & Entertainment
- Financial Services
- Transportation & Logistics
Work experience· 5 roles
Built operational dashboards to consolidate multi-source financial transaction data so bank operations teams can investigate and resolve disputes via a single interface. Connected third-party B2B financial services and merchant products to core banking systems. Contributed to migrating a bank’s core banking system to the open-source Mifos platform, evaluating the unfamiliar stack, resolving integration challenges, and supporting the transition with minimal business disruption. Translated complex transaction and integration behavior into clear TypeScript interfaces and implementation decisions for cross-functional stakeholders.
Architected and deployed a multi-region AWS cloud workspace using AWS CDK, ensuring high availability for global production loads. Implemented secure digital submission and scoring workflows for a full-scale ERP platform, enabling seamless educator and student interactions. Developed and integrated custom Odoo ERP microservices, establishing clear interfaces across complex enterprise systems. Managed serverless deployment strategies and CI/CD pipelines to optimize performance and security for high-traffic enterprise applications.
Architected a high-concurrency ticketing platform on AWS using EC2 and RDS to manage purchases during peak windows. Developed and maintained robust REST APIs for event and transport logistics, ensuring secure digital scoring and scanning workflows. Implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) principles to deploy scalable backend architecture, reducing manual deployment errors by 40%. Acted as Lead Architect to analyze system requirements and integrate complex API interfaces across the core transport and event platform.
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