Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native distributed backend systems across SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, and AI platforms. Strong expertise in Go, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript, with deep knowledge of microservices, event-driven systems, API design, and high-throughput data processing. Proven track record improving performance, scalability, and availability (99.9%+), while also reducing infrastructure costs through horizontal scaling, caching, and operational excellence. Experienced with CI/CD, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability engineering, and secure backend development aligned with PCI-DSS and cloud security best practices.

Ojiaku Favour

Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native distributed backend systems across SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, and AI platforms. Strong expertise in Go, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript, with deep knowledge of microservices, event-driven systems, API design, and high-throughput data processing. Proven track record improving performance, scalability, and availability (99.9%+), while also reducing infrastructure costs through horizontal scaling, caching, and operational excellence. Experienced with CI/CD, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability engineering, and secure backend development aligned with PCI-DSS and cloud security best practices.

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Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native distributed backend systems across SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, and AI platforms. Strong expertise in Go, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript, with deep knowledge of microservices, event-driven systems, API design, and high-throughput data processing.

Proven track record improving performance, scalability, and availability (99.9%+), while also reducing infrastructure costs through horizontal scaling, caching, and operational excellence. Experienced with CI/CD, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability engineering, and secure backend development aligned with PCI-DSS and cloud security best practices.

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Work Experience

Senior Backend Engineer at R-AINBOW (UK)
January 1, 2025 - Present
Architected scalable microservices using Go and Python, following clean architecture and SOLID principles, reducing API latency by 35% while supporting 2M+ active users. Built high-throughput REST and gRPC services with JWT authentication, rate limiting, logging middleware, and centralized error handling to achieve 99.9% SLA compliance. Led cloud-native system design on AWS, implementing horizontal scaling and load balancing strategies to reduce infrastructure cost by 20%. Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes (EKS) enabling zero-downtime deployments and reducing release cycles from 4 hours to 45 minutes. Implemented distributed caching using Redis and introduced observability standards using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack for proactive monitoring and root-cause analysis. Conducted architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical mentoring for a 5-engineer team.
Backend & DevOps Engineer at Roducate Ltd
March 1, 2021 - December 1, 2024
Designed backend systems in Python and Go supporting 500K+ users for a high-availability e-learning platform. Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Ansible to standardize environment provisioning across AWS and Azure. Built scalable REST and GraphQL APIs, improving data retrieval performance by 30%. Implemented blue-green deployment strategies and automated CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual deployment errors by 80%. Configured centralized logging and monitoring dashboards using ELK Stack and Grafana, reducing production incidents by 40%. Collaborated across product, QA, and frontend teams within Agile/Scrum.
Backend Developer at Dangote Refinery
September 1, 2018 - February 1, 2021
Developed backend applications in Java and Python for industrial monitoring and refinery workflow automation systems. Built IoT ingestion pipelines processing sensor data streams using event-driven architecture principles. Migrated legacy on-prem systems to AWS cloud infrastructure to improve resilience and scalability. Optimized PostgreSQL and MongoDB database performance, improving data retrieval by 40%. Implemented CI/CD automation with Jenkins and Git, improving release stability and reducing rollback incidents.

Education

MSc, Advanced Computer Science at Swansea University
January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2024
BEng, Computer Engineering at Michael Okpara University
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2017

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Education, Computers & Electronics, Energy & Utilities