Akinyele Cafe-febrissy
Backend Engineer at GitLab
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAkinyele Cafe-febrissy is a Backend Engineer with ten years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across e-commerce, telecommunications, and gaming at companies including GitLab, Deliverect, and Shopify. Trained in Software Engineering at the University of Ottawa and shaped by an efficiency-first COOP in Japan, he applies a Kaizen mindset to iteratively improve systems and developer workflows. Comfortable joining projects at any stage, he ships pragmatic back-end solutions from ideation through implementation and operationalization. Fluent in English, French, and Japanese, he brings cross-cultural communication to distributed teams and international products. Outside code he loves baking, drumming, and cycling—interests he uses as low-friction labs for continual refinement and creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Software Engineering, Bachelors Software Engineering at University of Ottawa
French, English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
309reputation
29kreached
6answers
10questions
Github Skills (41)
map-box10
bulma10
javascript9
ruby9
streaming9
rails7
eclipse6
pkcs6
ruby-on-rails6
react6
nodejs6
openssl6
android6
bouncy-castle6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thedrummeraki/csi2132-project
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:78 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 month
thedrummeraki/react-portfolio
Jun 2019 - Dec 2021
My portfolio written in React.
Contributions:18 PRs, 68 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 6 months
reactjsjavascriptreactstyled-components
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