Samuel
From Nigeria (UTC+1)
Samuel – React, Next.js, Golang
Samuel is a senior backend and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience, specializing in Go, TypeScript, and React. He has led teams and delivered high-load distributed systems, notably by designing payment routing engines and working with PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka. His strengths, as showcased during the vetting process, include structured reasoning and strong product impact!
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Team Lead
A payment disbursement system that allows transfers to 30+ countries.
- After the initial goal of building the system for a few countries, helped extend the system to over 30 countries without breaking compliance.
- Built the payment reconciliation engine.
- Handled integration with different providers.
Senior Full Stack Developer
A website builder similar to Squarespace, Webflow, or Wix.com, created on WordPress.
- Worked on the visual editors.
- Built security systems to prevent cross-site request forgeries.
- Established network monitoring solutions for enhanced performance.
- Implemented a dynamic, accessible dark mode for improved user experience.
- Implemented the pre-built component/content blocks to make development easier.
Senior Full Stack Developer
The biggest "experience marketplace" located in Norway. The role focused on expanding the service to other European countries.
- Created a central auth federation system for the microservices.
- Built a workflow to help expand the service into multiple countries with minimal work.
- Worked on an API package to share with vendors and third parties.
- Helped curate Docker files to ensure services scale on the Kubernetes cluster.
Senior Developer/Technical Lead
A digital publication where aspiring technical authors publish their technical articles and video lessons.
- Improved traffic by 4x. From 800k monthly views to 4 million monthly.
- Rebuilt the content editor in React to work like the medium.com editor.
- Built internal dashboards for managing content and securing payouts.
- Generated dynamic OG images from user-generated content.
- Built anti-spam and anti-fraud systems.
- Wrote E2E tests.
Full Stack Developer
Nigeria's largest marketplace for booking flights and accomodation for travellers.
- Built a global search feature for customers who need to book flights;
- Worked on the booking system architecture;
- Built payment infrastructure to support the Nigerian Naira and USD.