Chidimma Okpalaima
Senior Software Engineer at Choco
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChidimma Okpalaima is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with over eight years of experience designing and shipping resilient, event-driven backend systems. She specializes in TypeScript/Node.js and AWS serverless and infrastructure stacks (AppSync, Cognito, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS/SQS) alongside container orchestration and IaC tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and CDK. Comfortable across RDBMS, NoSQL and time-series/graph data stores, she pairs strong system design instincts with hands-on scaling, testing and observability using Datadog, Prometheus and Grafana. Her career spans product- and infrastructure-focused roles at Choco, Mobimeo and Andela, where she influenced infrastructure roadmaps and delivered production-grade services for consumer-facing and B2B platforms. Beyond coding, she brings proven leadership, mentoring and CI/CD automation expertise that reduce downtime and accelerate delivery. A background in electronic and computer engineering informs her pragmatic approach to building fault-tolerant distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Github Skills (10)
hugo7
react5
web-application5
nodejs5
javascript4
data-explorer3
ui-builder2
data-science2
datasets2
datahub1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
julietezekwe/Store_Manager_develop
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Store Manager is a web application that helps store owners manage sales and product inventory.
Contributions:215 commits, 157 PRs, 100 pushes in 1 month
inventoryreactownersjavascriptweb-application
julietezekwe/github_users_search_api
Feb 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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