I’m Sedem Quame Amekpewu, a backend-first software engineer with 5+ years of experience building production systems across AI, fintech, mobile, gaming, and developer infrastructure. I help teams turn complex requirements into reliable APIs, automation, and user-facing products, with recent work spanning LLM evaluation pipelines, RAG/RLHF workflows, FastAPI tool-use sandboxes, Flutter/Unity AR apps, USSD/SMS fintech infrastructure, CRM automation, and CI/CD observability. Clients bring me in when reliability matters: I’ve improved data operations throughput by 30%, supported payment-critical systems at 99.9% uptime, reduced debugging time by 50% for 200+ engineers, and shipped products used by 20k+ mobile users. I work comfortably across Python, FastAPI, Node.js, React, Flutter, Unity, AWS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, and OpenAI integrations.…

Sedem Quame Amekpewu

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I’m Sedem Quame Amekpewu, a backend-first software engineer with 5+ years of experience building production systems across AI, fintech, mobile, gaming, and developer infrastructure. I help teams turn complex requirements into reliable APIs, automation, and user-facing products, with recent work spanning LLM evaluation pipelines, RAG/RLHF workflows, FastAPI tool-use sandboxes, Flutter/Unity AR apps, USSD/SMS fintech infrastructure, CRM automation, and CI/CD observability. Clients bring me in when reliability matters: I’ve improved data operations throughput by 30%, supported payment-critical systems at 99.9% uptime, reduced debugging time by 50% for 200+ engineers, and shipped products used by 20k+ mobile users. I work comfortably across Python, FastAPI, Node.js, React, Flutter, Unity, AWS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, and OpenAI integrations.…

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I’m Sedem Quame Amekpewu, a backend-first software engineer with 5+ years of experience building production systems across AI, fintech, mobile, gaming, and developer infrastructure. I help teams turn complex requirements into reliable APIs, automation, and user-facing products, with recent work spanning LLM evaluation pipelines, RAG/RLHF workflows, FastAPI tool-use sandboxes, Flutter/Unity AR apps, USSD/SMS fintech infrastructure, CRM automation, and CI/CD observability.

Clients bring me in when reliability matters: I’ve improved data operations throughput by 30%, supported payment-critical systems at 99.9% uptime, reduced debugging time by 50% for 200+ engineers, and shipped products used by 20k+ mobile users. I work comfortably across Python, FastAPI, Node.js, React, Flutter, Unity, AWS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, and OpenAI integrations.

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Skills

Experience Level

Python
Expert
AWS
Expert
Docker
Expert
JavaScript
Expert
Kubernetes
Expert
SQL
Expert
Java
Expert
Node.js
Expert
Django
Expert
ETL
Expert
MongoDB
Expert
C#
Intermediate
Selenium
Intermediate
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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

AI Engineer at Turing
June 1, 2024 - October 1, 2025
Built RLHF, SFT, and RAG workflows for enterprise LLM evaluation, including realistic FastAPI clones of Slack, Amazon, Jira, and PayPal APIs for tool-use testing. Generated synthetic partner data and automated Python + SQL workflows that improved data prep throughput by 30%; instrumented hallucination, latency, and cost metrics in Grafana and led quality gates for a distributed engineering team.
Full-stack Software Developer at NewRedo
April 1, 2026 - Present
Build Flutter, Unity AR, and backend-connected content flows for Love Exploring, a cross-platform product serving 20k+ iOS and Android users. Hardened API/content integration with alternate field mappings, missing-data validation, and case-insensitive Unity model matching; document QA, approvals, rollout, rollback, and app-store release workflows.
Software Engineer at Fido
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025
Automated SMS, USSD, CRM, and localized web workflows across Ghana and Uganda, supporting 99.9% uptime in payment-critical fintech operations. Implemented CRM integrations that improved reporting accuracy by 40% and built internal tools for sales, marketing, finance, analytics, and deployment teams.
DevOps & Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley / Turntabl
September 1, 2020 - January 1, 2023
Rolled out CI/CD guardrails, automation, observability dashboards, and Java/Spring Boot services for critical trading infrastructure. Built automated error classification that reduced debugging time by 50% for 200+ engineers and improved code quality through pipeline policy checks.
Founder / Lead Engineer at NewsFoldr Intelligence
November 1, 2021 - February 1, 2024
Built an AI-powered media intelligence platform ingesting 10,000+ articles per day with resilient scrapers, queue-based retries, LLM summaries, topic clustering, and caching that reduced latency by 35%. Owned AWS Lambda, FastAPI, MongoDB, React, alerting, runbooks, and product delivery.
Full-stack Developer at Renmo, Inc.
April 1, 2022 - August 1, 2022
Built React, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, and PostgreSQL features for a rent-to-own platform serving 10k+ renters. Implemented accessible UI components, localized form logic, underwriting/payment integrations, analytics hooks, CRM automation, and deployment playbooks.

Education

B.Sc. Computer Engineering at University of Ghana
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2020

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
September 1, 2016 - July 1, 2020
Bachelor's in Computer Engineering
September 1, 2016 - July 1, 2020

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Education, Gaming, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services
    Fido Growth Platform

    Built and maintained payment-critical fintech automation across Ghana and Uganda, including SMS, USSD, CRM workflows, localized web experiences, CI/CD, analytics, and observability.

    Role: Software Engineer
    Stack: React, Node.js, AWS, PostgreSQL, Bitbucket Pipelines, SMS/USSD, CRM integrations
    Impact: Supported 99.9% uptime, improved reporting accuracy by 40%, and delivered internal tools used by sales, marketing, finance, and growth teams.

    Case study: https://www.twine.net/signin

    NewRedo / Love Exploring

    Delivered Flutter, Unity AR, and backend-connected content workflows for Love Exploring, a cross-platform mobile product serving 20k+ iOS and Android users.

    Role: Full-stack Software Developer
    Stack: Flutter, Unity AR, Android, iOS, Next.js, Strapi, CocoaPods
    Impact: Hardened API/content integration with alternate field mappings, missing-data validation, case-insensitive Unity model matching, release QA, rollout, rollback, and app-store handoff workflows.

    Case study: https://www.twine.net/signin

    Autonomous AI Delivery Platform

    Built enterprise LLM evaluation and delivery workflows across RLHF, SFT, RAG, and tool-use testing. I created realistic FastAPI clones of Slack, Amazon, Jira, and PayPal APIs so agents could be evaluated against production-like workflows before deployment.

    Role: AI Engineer / Tech Lead
    Stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, Grafana, RLHF, RAG, MCP
    Impact: Improved data-prep throughput by 30%, added hallucination/latency/cost observability, and led quality gates for a distributed engineering team.

    Case study: https://www.twine.net/signin