Nigeria

Back-end

Full stack

Kizito Akhilome

Engineering Manager

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Leadership

Cloud computing

Database management

Unit Testing

Postman

React

GitHub

JavaScript

GitLab

REST API

MongoDB

Redis

PostgreSQL

Node.js

HTML

Stakeholder management

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

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

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Worked as the lead backend engineer on the Business Score team to build the MVP for the flagship lending as a service API.

• built the backend for the initial and follow-up versions from the ground up.

• built APIs to support multiple dashboards for admins and partners

• set up CI pipelines to automate testing and deployment to multiple environments.

• set up central logging and monitoring systems to enable proactively catching and resolving issues

Tools: Node.js • Typescript • Pulumi • Github Actions • Postgres • Redis • React

• Worked on multiple features and system improvements as a backend product engineer on the "Payouts" team, responsible for a component of disbursements through Flutterwave for Business (Rave).

• Started and worked as one of the core contributors to v3 of the public-facing developer APIs.

• Worked closely with the customer success team to help fast-track and resolve technical issues that customers experienced.

• Worked with the integration and technical account management teams to fix identified bugs and implement feature enhancements across teams.

Tools:

Node.js • SQL • AWS • MongoDB • Git (w/ GitLab) • APIs

Worked on an internal team to build out tooling for automating the onboarding process when an engineer joins a new partner/client.

We turned what was once an unceremonious dance between multiple platforms for a single engineer into a few button clicks on a single platform (for one, or multiple engineers at once).

Tools:

NodeJS • Socket.IO • Postgres • Sequelize • Redis • APIs

Worked as a full-stack Javascript and Typescript engineer on a distributed internal team building an internal tool used at our Nairobi Campus.

• worked extensively on the database of the application writing raw SQL queries at a point to migrate/merge data between tables.

• created, maintained, and wrote tests for RESTful API endpoints.

• created API documentation for all endpoints on the application using the OpenAPI spec.

• shipped frontend features developed using Angular, based on design mockups provided by our in-house product designer.

Tools:

Postgresql • Redis • Node JS (w/ Express) • Slack API • Google Maps API • Typescript • Angular • Git (w/ Github) • Jest (for both backend and frontend tests)

This team was AGILE with 2-week sprints, daily standups, bi-weekly demos, and retros.

Kizito Akhilome🇳🇬