Summary
Charles Essien is a Back End Developer with a decade of hands-on experience building and securing enterprise systems across Europe and Nigeria. He has blended roles in software engineering, identity and access management, and data analysis—most recently focusing on IAM implementations and back-end services at DC SMARTER after consultancy stints at iC Consult and 4 Rivers. His background spans full application lifecycles, team leadership, and tooling for data-driven decision making, reflecting both developer and analyst instincts. Charles is comfortable customizing One Identity Manager, automating deployments, and hardening access controls while mentoring teams on quality and operational best practices. Based in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, he pairs a Computer Science degree with practical multi-industry experience shipping production systems and improving data workflows. Notably, his career path shows a deliberate shift from data-centric roles into specialized IAM and backend engineering, giving him a rare cross-discipline perspective on secure, reliable software.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Cross River University of Technology, Calabar.