Looks like you have JavaScript disabled. For the full Twine experience, you will need to re-enable it.

I'm a backend-focused software engineer with experience building scalable microservices, cloud-native deployments, and payment workflows. I enjoy turning complex problems into robust, maintainable solutions and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable impact. In my across-the-globe roles, I’ve shipped systems that handle millions of events and users, while prioritizing reliability and clean architecture. Outside of work, I’m driven by automation, continuous learning, and mentoring teammates to elevate the team's overall capabilities and quality of life.…I'm a backend-focused software engineer with experience building scalable microservices, cloud-native deployments, and payment workflows. I enjoy turning complex problems into robust, maintainable solutions and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable impact. In my across-the-globe roles, I’ve shipped systems that handle millions of events and users, while prioritizing reliability and clean architecture. Outside of work, I’m driven by automation, continuous learning, and mentoring teammates to elevate the team's overall capabilities and quality of life.

Monsuru Okuniyi

Back-End Developer, Full Stack Developer, Cloud Developer, +2





I'm a backend-focused software engineer with experience building scalable microservices, cloud-native deployments, and payment workflows. I enjoy turning complex problems into robust, maintainable solutions and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable impact. In my across-the-globe roles, I’ve shipped systems that handle millions of events and users, while prioritizing reliability and clean architecture. Outside of work, I’m driven by automation, continuous learning, and mentoring teammates to elevate the team's overall capabilities and quality of life.…I'm a backend-focused software engineer with experience building scalable microservices, cloud-native deployments, and payment workflows. I enjoy turning complex problems into robust, maintainable solutions and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable impact. In my across-the-globe roles, I’ve shipped systems that handle millions of events and users, while prioritizing reliability and clean architecture. Outside of work, I’m driven by automation, continuous learning, and mentoring teammates to elevate the team's overall capabilities and quality of life.

Available to hire

I’m a backend-focused software engineer with experience building scalable microservices, cloud-native deployments, and payment workflows. I enjoy turning complex problems into robust, maintainable solutions and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable impact. In my across-the-globe roles, I’ve shipped systems that handle millions of events and users, while prioritizing reliability and clean architecture.
Outside of work, I’m driven by automation, continuous learning, and mentoring teammates to elevate the team’s overall capabilities and quality of life.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Backend Engineer at Moniepoint Group

October 1, 2024 - Present

Developed and implemented a ghost login system enabling quick identification and resolution of onboarding issues, achieving a 90% adoption rate among all onboarded Moniebook customers. Architected a service for instant commissions payouts and scheduled retries of failed payout transactions for BRMs and their downlines, processing over $10,000 payouts in the first week. Designed and implemented idempotent retry logic to avoid duplicate payments, automated and manual ledger account creation for BRMs and downlines, and integrated with team member creation to auto-generate ledger accounts during payouts (over 1,000 ledger accounts created in the first week). Built and launched the Moniebook Subscription feature serving 100,000+ users with tiered plans, automated billing, and prorated calculations. Developed Moniebook’s Audit Log processing 30+ critical events per second (~2.5M per day) for detailed real-time user action tracking and compliance reporting.

Senior Software Engineer at Kingship

October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024

Integrated and implemented Iterable APIs, a third-party service, to synchronize over 5 million user profiles seamlessly. Spearheaded the development of an ETL service to migrate over 1 million customer feedback data from Medallia to AWS S3 within a Kubernetes cron job, delivering reliable data for insights. Integrated Stripe into Kingship's subscriptions service, achieving a 30% increase in successful subscription completions in the first three months. Identified bottlenecks in authentication workflows with the EKS cluster and authored a Bash automation script, reducing development time and improving team efficiency by over 20%.

Senior Software Engineer at SiliconHub

October 1, 2022 - October 31, 2023

Built 3 microservices and developed 40+ REST APIs from scratch using Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, NestJS, MongoDB, and JUnit to support numerous concurrent users. Designed the extraction, aggregation, and processing of over 5 million messages from a Kafka-based server with a third-party fraud tool, enabling well-organized financial reports for 500,000+ users. Created a NestJS package on the NPM registry to improve separation of concerns and auditability. Architected and released a comprehensive auditing system (package + microservice) to track all user interactions (20,000+ events per day), enriching application functionality.

Senior Software Engineer at Ash Nelson

October 1, 2021 - October 31, 2022

Implemented a payment gateway across four channels and deployed microservices using Docker and Kubernetes, delivering faster deployments and scaling to 100,000+ users. Integrated Interswitch for local transactions, increasing successful local payments by ~20%. Integrated Mastercard gateway for local and international transactions with automated provider switching, achieving 99.9% uptime and a 25% reduction in transaction failures. Added notification integration with Azure and RabbitMQ, processing 10,000+ notifications daily.

Junior Software Engineer at SiliconHub

June 1, 2018 - September 30, 2021

Worked in an agile team to enhance backend architecture, leveraging Java 11, Spring Boot, TypeScript, NestJS, and MongoDB; containerized microservices with Docker. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve code quality and maintainability; containerized all microservice apps using Docker.