Netherlands

Back-end

Bachelor’s Degree

Emmanuel Awotunde

Backend Engineer

Problem-solving

Java

JavaScript

Notion

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General mentorship

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

Dealing with imposter syndrome

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Breaking into tech

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Acing technical interview questions

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

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Presenting your work with impact

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Working with engineers

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

Helping people with mock interviews, resume and portfolio reviews, dealing with imposter syndrome, presenting their work with impact, and more.

Jetseed (jetseed.com) is on a mission to build economic and internet infrastructure to aid people in their journey to financial freedom.

- Reduced fraud cases by 80% by building an automated flagging system with manual overrides
- Increased daily savings deposits by 100% by reducing time to action for new and old users
- Improved 3 projects’ bus factors by 1 through regular pair programming sessions and documentation
- Improved product lead time by more than 100% by setting up automated pull request deployment to reduce testing time
- Increased API uptime to 99.99% by setting up CI/CD for our deployment process

Technologies used: Node.js, Adonis.js, Javascript, AWS, Docker, Redis, MySQL

- Improved delivery time of an MVP by designing a GraphQL federation architecture with extensive documentation
- Reduced testing & QA period by 50% by setting up CI/CD using Kubernetes for the staging deployment process
- Setup automatic provisioning of AWS resources with a failover process when components of the microservice fail

Technologies used: Node.js, Nest.js, Apollo Federation, GraphQL, Typescript, AWS, Kubernetes, Redis, PostgreSQL

- Designed properly normalized database models
- Implemented upload of manual payments to AWS S3
- Implemented beautiful email templates for customer onboarding and payments
- Wrote docker files and AWS ECS deployment process
- Implemented a trackable referral system with rewards

Technologies used: Javascript, Typescript, Nest.js, MySQL, Docker, Redis, AWS ECS, AWS ELB, AWS S3

- Increased daily signups by 200% by simplifying sign up and verification process
- Increased delivery of app updates (iOS & Android) by 100% by using over-the-air-update with App Center’s CodePush
- Increased delivery of backend updates by setting up CI/CD for our deployment process
- Increased SEO score to 100% by implementing modern SEO techniques
- Increased backend system observability to about 90% by setting up production monitoring systems and logs on AWS

Technologies used: Node.js, Adonis.js, Javascript, Vue.js, Cordova, AWS, Docker, Redis, MySQL

- Increased API uptime to 99.99% by setting up CI/CD for our deployment process
- Increased conversion by 50% by adding more entry points for submitting orders on the platform
- Reduced production errors by writing unit and integration tests
- Setup automated database backups to reduce the risk of data loss

Technologies used: Python, Django, Javascript, Nginx, Docker, Redis, Celery, Digital Ocean

- Improved performance in key customer onboarding areas by writing more efficient implementation
- Totally eliminated duplicate user emails with a python script thereby reducing database query time by more than 10%
- Reduced lead time by over 50% by automating many manual processes previously done by the sales department
- Wrote GraphQL APIs for an improved product version that resulted in a 25% increase in conversion rate

Technologies used: Python, Django, Flask, React.js, Javascript, Nginx, Docker, Redis, Celery

- Developed a web application for a staff management system that integrates role and information management
- Wrote a chat functionality for messaging between members of staff and management

Technologies used: HTML/CSS, Javascript, PHP, CPanel, FileZilla

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