Summary
Arnaud Bakyono is a senior backend software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web applications for fintech, healthcare, and government clients from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He combines deep expertise in PHP, Node.js, Java, and cloud technologies with a strong focus on clean architecture, distributed systems, and robust transaction-safe backends. As a founding engineer at a payments startup and a lead fullstack developer, he has architected payment processing systems and led teams to adopt TDD and hexagonal patterns. Arnaud mentors aspiring developers (20+ mentees on OpenClassrooms and 80+ positive reviews on Classgap) while consulting on public-health lab assessment software, showing a knack for translating domain needs into reliable software. comfortable working remotely with international teams, he often bridges technical strategy and hands-on implementation across the stack. He’s known online as “kulturman,” a persistent self-improver aiming to become a world-class developer.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software engineering, Master's degree Software engineering at Joseph Ky zerbo University
Bachelor's degree Computer science, Bachelor's degree Computer science at University of Bobo Dioulasso
French, English