Awasum Yannick
Senior Software Engineer at Luminara Software
Buea, Southwest, Cameroon
Summary
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RockstarAwasum Yannick is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native banking and financial services solutions from Cameroon, currently driving engineering at Luminara Software. He combines hands-on backend development—evidenced by significant contributions to the widely used Apache Fineract project, including test stabilization, SpotBugs remediation, and platform upgrades—with leadership in open-source governance as an ASF PMC member and former Vice President of Apache Fineract. Yannick has led teams and product integrations for core banking, mobile wallet, and loan management systems across emerging markets, and has scaled engineering teams and mentoring programs as a former CTO. He also champions diversity and inclusion through Outreachy coordination at the Apache Software Foundation, bridging community growth with practical software delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
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Github Skills (17)
testing10
java10
javas10
spring-boot10
gradlew10
gradle10
apache9
back-end-development9
finance9
bank9
integration-testing9
banking9
spring-data-couchbase6
mifos6
docker6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/fineract
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
Apache Fineract
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 35 commits, 196 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Awasum primarily focused on fixing and improving integration tests for the Fineract platform, specifically around staff assignment to centers. They also addressed code quality issues by implementing SpotBugs to fix numerous high-priority rule violations, leading to code improvements. Additionally, the user updated the Gradle and Spring Boot versions, and modified the user administration to restrict clients to have single self-service users. Furthermore, they worked on integrating a constraint for self-service users.
javafineractapachebankingfinance
apache/fineract-cn-reporting
Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
Apache Fineract report building service
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 11 months
javafineractreportapache
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