Summary
Caleb Mbakwe is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable full-stack systems and improving performance across products from startups to Google. He has led teams and shipped microservice architectures, performance optimizations (including multi-tenant memory and latency reductions), and customer-facing dashboards that inform product decisions. Comfortable across React front-ends, Python and Node.js back-ends, and AWS-hosted services, Caleb pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and client-facing technical leadership. He’s delivered measurable impact—reducing critical response times by up to 75% and slashing memory use by 70%—and brings a track record of turning operational pain points into reliable, production-grade solutions. Based in Toronto with roots in large-scale projects across media, edtech, and enterprise, he combines analytical problem-solving with a habit of teaching what he learns on the job.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science with Economics, 4.73, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science with Economics, 4.73 at Obafemi Awolowo University
SSCE, Science, SSCE, Science at King's College Lagos