Chijioke Ibekwe
Senior Software Engineer at Paga Group Ltd
Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolChijioke Ibekwe is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lagos with 5–6 years’ experience building high-throughput, regulatory-compliant systems for fintech, logistics, and edtech. He specializes in translating complex risk and compliance requirements into resilient backend architectures, recently leading design and delivery of a real-time Kafka Streams fraud monitoring pipeline at Paga. Comfortable as a technical lead during mission-critical incidents, he couples deep Java expertise with pragmatic tool choice, emphasizing concurrency, idempotency, and clean architecture. His background spans full lifecycle work from embedded firmware to automated E2E testing and multi-tenant SaaS integrations, which gives him an unusually broad systems perspective. A pragmatic open-source advocate, he’s exploring blockchain and DeFi as the next frontier for financial infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for delivering reliable, auditable solutions that protect customer funds and scale with business constraints.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
WASSCE, WASSCE at Federal Government College EnuguBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering at University of Nigeria, Nsukka
English, Igbo
Github Skills (30)
javascript9
open-source9
sendgrid-api9
spring-mvc8
spring-boot7
ping7
amazon-ses7
chat-application6
search-api6
java6
laravel-package6
sendgrid6
spring-api5
spring-data-jpa5
php5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chijioke-ibekwe/ping-me
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Ping Me! is a chat application where users could find and connect with people they might know and exchange messages and media. It is a Spring Boot application built on the Spring MVC module.
Contributions:141 commits, 2 PRs, 124 pushes in 7 months
spring-bootexchangechat-applicationchatspring-mvc
chijioke-ibekwe/raven
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
Laravel multi-channel notification package
Contributions:12 releases, 37 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 year 1 month
amazon-seslaravellaravel-frameworklaravel-packagenotifications
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