Daniel Benjamin
Software Engineer at Alveum
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolDaniel Benjamin is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building mobile and backend systems across React Native, Node.js, and Go, currently managing multi-cloud infrastructure at Alveum. He has a strong track record of shipping measurable impact—leading a product overhaul that sped feature deployments by 30%, cutting crash rates from 5.57% to 0.39%, and migrating a music library from MP3 to AAC/HLS to halve buffering. Comfortable from device to cloud, he architects scalable microservices, data streaming with Kafka, and automated CI/CD using Pulumi, Terraform, and GitHub Actions. A frequent contributor to open-source observability tooling (notably active around Grafana) and a creator of developer tooling in Node.js and Go, he blends platform-building with hands-on engineering. Based in Lagos, he pairs formal training in engineering and web development with practical experience in analytics, privacy-preserving pipelines, and global product launches. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, on-call ownership, and turning complex requirements into reliable, production-ready systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Metallurgical and Material Engineering, Bachelor's degree Metallurgical and Material Engineering at University of LagosLearning Full-Stack JavaScript Development: MongoDB Node and React, Learning Full-Stack JavaScript Development: MongoDB Node and React at Linkedin LearningMotion Design With Css In View, Motion Design With Css In View at Linkedin LearingWeb Development Computer Software Engineering, Web Development Computer Software Engineering at Andela
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Github Skills (189)
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dashboard10
xmlhttprequest10
infinite-scroll10
parallax10
certification10
grafana10
microfrontend10
http-client10
bundler10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
jsx10
framework710
monitoring10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
papidb/service
Apr 2021 - Mar 2024
Starter code for writing web services in Go
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years
golanghtmxweb-servicesgostarter-code
markessien/machinealerts
Nov 2018 - Mar 2024
Machine Learning Alert Parsing
Contributions:2 PRs in 5 years 5 months
alertpythondata-sciencemachine-learningparsing
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