Anthony Cookey
Software Engineer
Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolAnthony Cookey is a software engineer with eight years of experience building backend systems and data pipelines, currently based in Lagos, Nigeria. He has led backend teams and shipped production services across startups and scale-ups, designing ELT pipelines, event-driven microservices, and fintech primitives using Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and AWS. Anthony blends hands-on engineering with product-minded architecture—optimizing performance, availability, and developer workflows while driving measurable user outcomes like increased engagement and streamlined payments. He has strong experience in analytics and AI-enabled APIs, including GraphQL endpoints and async data loaders for model outputs, and has deployed systems with DBT, Airbyte and smart caching for efficiency. Comfortable from MVPs to scalable pipelines, he pairs a Computer Engineering degree with a Udacity nanodegree and a track record of turning integrations and CRM data flows into reliable, observable services. Unexpectedly, his background ranges from early full-stack internships to leading backend teams, giving him rare fluency across frontend, backend and data-infrastructure concerns.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Engineering at University of LagosFull Stack Web Developer Nano Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Developer Nano Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Udacity
English
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Github Skills (3)
git7
llm4
laravel3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TonyCookey/Laravel-Drench-Installer
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
Install Laravel Locally using the Drench Installer
Contributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 4 months
laravel
TonyCookey/dsa-with-golang
Nov 2021 - Mar 2023
Data Structures and Algorithms with Golang
Contributions:2 PRs, 277 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
golangdata-structuresalgorithms-and-data-structures
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