Chidera Olibie
Software Engineer at Google
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChidera Olibie is a software engineer with eight years’ experience building full‑stack web and mobile systems, currently at Google in the UK. Comfortable across JavaScript, Java and backend services, she has shipped APIs, realtime chat, dashboards and consumer-facing apps while optimizing Android networking to reduce request latency. A first-class Electronics & Computer Engineering graduate and former technical project manager, she pairs rigorous algorithmic thinking with practical test‑structuring to minimize flakiness in complex systems. She also contributes to open-source efforts—most notably implementing URL connection support for Cronvoy in the Envoy ecosystem—and volunteers regularly to mentor women into tech.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronic and Computer Engineering, First Class Honours - 4.76/5.00, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronic and Computer Engineering, First Class Honours - 4.76/5.00 at Nnamdi Azikiwe University
English
Github Skills (10)
android-webview10
javas10
webview10
android10
java10
testing10
multithreading9
c-language8
concurrency8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Chidera primarily focused on porting and implementing a `urlconnection` package and its associated tests for Cronvoy. This involved creating the necessary classes and tests to integrate the functionality. The changes included code modifications to the `CronetHttpURLConnection` class and related components. Their contributions are essential for the Cronvoy project's ability to handle URL connections.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
she-code-africa/Backend-Initiative-Project
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
This is a base repository for the backend initiative project
Contributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 months
backendnodejsinitiative
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