Canada

Back-end

Full stack

Nanodegree

Enterprise Java Solutions Architect

Charles Odili

Senior Software Engineer

Portfolio

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Empathy

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Blog writing

Community management

Docker

GitHub

JavaScript

REST API

PostgreSQL

Node.js

Python

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

- Built backend features end-to-end. Including design, development, testing, deployment and monitoring.
- Built modern REST APIs and message driven backend services on AWS with Typescript. These are backends layered over Machine Learning models and services.
- Championed the design-first approach to APIs, such that our OpenAPI spec is always the single source of truth. Led to better documentation, testing, integration and code generation from API specs, which benefitted internal and external integrators.
- Achieved millions of daily API calls with ~50ms average latency.
- Deployed (tactical DevOps & CI/CD) with Github Actions, Jenkins & Docker.
- Provisioned cloud infrastructure on AWS with IaC, using CDK.
- Improved centralised logging, monitoring, and alarms for container workloads and DocumentDB using Fluent and custom metrics.
- Implemented a ton of code refactor and modernisation with Typescript and custom types

- Building an industry-wide API sandbox for FinTech innovation across the Nigerian financial services value chain, leveraging APIs from 10+ local and international banks, telco processors and other key service providers 
- Responsible for technology strategy, engineering development  and community (developers & corporates)

-  Led programs, engineering, and innovation for Talent Partnerships, helping the team attain +2x of 2019 revenues in Q1 of 2020. 

-  Design lead for programs that engaged and grew a community of +60k mobile, web, and cloud engineers in the Andela Learning Community. Managed a team cascade of 6 professionals, comprising engineers and managers.

-  Created an innovation program for  ~7.5k distributed engineers to build solutions to problems sourced from the industry. Resulted in 123 top MVPs from the first cohort of ~1.7k engineers.

-  Tech Lead to a team of 6 engineers who built an evaluation and auto-review platform with GitHub Actions, Jest, Lighthouse, and Codacy. This enabled +1k engineers to level-up into a growth program that connects top performers to job and business opportunities.

-  Built Comlink Workers, a simple JavaScript frontend application to investigate the impact of performance and web workers on user experience. Shared recommendations in a LogRocket article

-  Hired and managed a team of 10 high performing professionals in 4 countries who trained +2k developers in monthly Bootcamps, producing quality entry-level full-stack engineer hires.

-  Evolved Andela Bootcamp to produce ~30 to ~100 engineers for hire, every month! Grew program yield from under 20% to an average of 55% (occasionally reaching 75%), in less than 2 years, while still producing even higher-quality engineer hires.

-  Engineering lead, initial and top contributor for Gradr, an online assessment MVP that improved developer profiling by +75%, saving the business  +$100K in yearly software licencing fees. 

-  The product owner and primary stakeholder to an agile team of ~15 engineers, UI/UX designers and a product manager, building tools to manage and maximise Andela’s talent pipeline, with the aim of hiring just the right engineers into Andela.

Under my leadership: 
-  The structure, rigour, agility, and robustness of Bootcamp were very critical to Andela's exponential growth and her ability to scale into new markets and meet demands for engineering talent.

-  Bootcamp participants went from building ad-hoc novelty apps to building better specified and fully reviewed full-stack web apps in JavaScript or Python. They would collaborate in a team, adopt a git workflow, attain test coverage over 65%, integrate continuous delivery and deploy to staging and production environments, communicate clearly with commit messages and README files, build the muscle to learn "on the job" quickly, give and receive actionable feedback, and create transparency and visibility on work quality by integrating platforms like Code Climate.

Created a framework which enabled program iterators to jumpstart design and execution by optimising for :
- Distribution: (Structures for scale and robustness)
- Learning: (What will be learned, how will learning occur and be measured. Who is the target, what are their goals, and what does their journey look like)
- Community: (How will a sense of community drive learning, distribution, support, accountability)

-  Engaged and grew +100 Google Developer communities across +40 countries in Africa, supporting their growth and success on Google’s web, mobile and cloud platforms. This entailed running programs and connecting engineers to resources, mentorship, events, and sponsorships.

-  Led yearly DevFests (large full-day in-person tech events), reaching ~10k developers across Africa.

-  Facilitated quality feedback exchange between developers in the region and internal Google product, engineering and research teams.

-  Collaborated with the SSA team to run the first Google-led International Women's Day and the first Progressive Web Apps roadshow events across Africa, including building a community and pipeline of Google Developer Experts

-  Built a GDG chapter, facilitator, and events web app with AngularJS, Google Apps Script and Google Spreadsheets. This gave me a significant productivity boost in managing my portfolio of +100 GDG chapters and their engagements across Africa.

-  Led the development of a number of exciting web applications, including deployments to run national sporting events for the Nigerian Universities Games Association

- Collaborated with the team that deployed the Google Apps for Education suite to the +60K University community. This was one of the first successful deployments in a Nigerian public University.

-  Led the migration of the institution’s Dreamweaver based HTML pages to a fully-fledged content management system powered by Drupal. Though an engineering undertaking, the migration project was my biggest change management adventure prior to the time, and it positioned the institution to emerge as best Nigerian University in a number of biannual Webometrics ranking.

Led Java and Mobile apps development, including the strategic pilot of an NFC-powered mobile payment application on Nokia 6131 series-40 devices

Led design and development of Java Web and Mobile Applications for a portfolio of clients.

Charles Odili🇨🇦

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