Boahen Badu
Software Engineer
Irving, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBoahen Badu is a seasoned software engineer and repeat founder with 13 years of experience building startups and consulting on scalable web and mobile systems. He co-founded Saya Mobile—TechCrunch Disrupt finalist that scaled rich messaging to millions of feature phones—and has since led engineering for products spanning mobile messaging, social discovery, health information, and AI-driven conversational platforms. Comfortable across the stack, he ships backend services in Elixir/Phoenix and Python, GraphQL APIs and Postgres, as well as Vue.js frontends and native mobile clients, and has operational experience with AWS, Nginx and CI/CD. As CTO and technical lead he combines product-facing delivery with deep systems design, having implemented real-time Erlang-based servers early in his career and modern NLP integrations more recently. Based in Irving, Texas, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic appetite for new languages and frameworks, currently exploring Dart/Flutter and broadening his front-end repertoire.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration (Accounting & Finance), Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration (Accounting & Finance) at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KumasiSoftware Development & Entrepreneurship, Software Development & Entrepreneurship at Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology
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Github Skills (21)
chat-application9
python-web8
chat8
tornado8
websocket7
graphql6
python-modules6
ecto6
routes6
vuejs26
vue6
phoenix-channels6
phoenix-framework6
python6
elixir6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
badubizzle/user_encryption
Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
badubizzle/mailgun
Oct 2017 - Jun 2022
Elixir Mailgun Client
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
elixirmailgun
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