Iheanyi Ekechukwu
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIheanyi Ekechukwu is a Houston-based Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems, currently at PlanetScale and also working as a Scout for Kleiner Perkins. He has held senior engineering roles at GitHub and DigitalOcean and worked on backend and infrastructure challenges at IBM Watson. An active open-source contributor, he wrote and refactored tools like bandcamp-dl (demonstrating web-scraping and ID3 tagging chops) and added client hook extensibility to the twirp RPC framework. Trained in both Computer Science and Graphic Design at the University of Notre Dame, he brings a rare blend of technical depth and product-aware design sensibility. He enjoys shipping side projects and tinkering with neat tooling, and is not currently seeking new job opportunities.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design at University of Notre Dame
English
Stackoverflow
424reputation
60kreached
16answers
5questions
Github Skills (33)
context-manager10
id310
python10
protobufs10
contextmanager10
context-api10
beautifulsoup10
id3v2-tag10
rpc10
go10
contextapi10
web-scraping10
protobuff10
protobuf310
id3v210
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
iheanyi/bandcamp-dl
Apr 2013 - Oct 2016
Simple python script to download Bandcamp albums
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 14 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Iheanyi primarily worked on developing a Python script for downloading Bandcamp albums. Their contributions include implementing core features for parsing Bandcamp pages, extracting album and track metadata, and downloading MP3 files. They also refactored code for better organization and readability, and addressed bugs related to individual track downloads. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of web scraping and ID3 tag manipulation.
downloaderpythonpython-scriptbandcampalbums
twitchtv/twirp
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
A simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 4 PRs, 35 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Iheanyi focused on adding client hook functionalities to the twirp RPC framework. They introduced features such as client hooks and client options, including `RequestPrepared`, `ResponseReceived` and `Error` hooks, enabling customization of client behavior. The user implemented the necessary functions to call these hooks at the appropriate stages of the request lifecycle. These changes included modifying the code generation to incorporate client hook calls. The user's work enhanced the flexibility and extensibility of the twirp framework.
rpcprotobufgrpcrpc-frameworkdefinitions
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