Akeem Boatswain
Senior Backend Engineer at Adobe
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAkeem Boatswain is a Senior Backend Engineer based in New York with 10 years of experience building scalable systems across Elixir/Phoenix, Postgres, JavaScript frameworks and the .NET stack. He has led technology transitions and cross-site teams—most notably driving company-wide adoption of Elixir and Postgres at Taskstream while training and managing offshore teams. At Frame.io and now Adobe he continues to focus on resilient backend architectures and platform-level concerns. Comfortable spanning backend, frontend, and database domains, he pairs hands-on implementation with mentoring and code-quality stewardship. Akeem’s career shows a pattern of unifying fragmented platforms after mergers and turning legacy stacks into modern, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.60, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.60 at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (13)
elasticsearch-dsl9
elixir7
api5
relay4
apollo-client4
graphql3
absinthe3
adapter2
hex2
microsoft-sql-server1
sql-server1
ecto1
mssql1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Frameio/exlasticsearch
May 2020 - Sep 2021
Elixir Elasticsearch DSL with ecto mapping built in
Contributions:2 reviews, 26 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 4 months
elasticsearch-dslelixir
akeemboatswain/livePoolApi
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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