Desmond Edem
Lead Software Engineer at VillageSquare Community
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolDesmond Edem is a Lead Software Engineer based in Lagos with 8 years of hands-on experience building and shipping backend services and APIs for startups and product teams. He has progressed from full-stack and backend roles to leading engineering efforts at VillageSquare Community after driving server-side design, integrations, and product roadmaps at STRV. Skilled in improving software quality and developer productivity, he also sets up CI/CD, enforces best practices, and deploys solutions on cloud platforms like Azure. Desmond pairs customer-facing collaboration with technical leadership, regularly working with product managers to translate business goals into deliverable roadmaps. Outside work he’s a self-described “Copy Ninja” and video game aficionado, hinting at a detail-oriented, iterative approach to coding—one line of C:\ode at a time.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
O'Level, O'Level at Immaculate Conception Seminary, MfamosingBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Uyo
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Github Skills (69)
notice9
ireporter8
corruption8
nodejs7
paradox6
bash6
shell6
api6
bash-completion6
backend5
rest-api5
typescript5
sherlock4
authentication4
windows4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
meetKazuki/personal-latex-moderncv
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Personal stripped-down template for using LaTeX 'moderncv' package
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
templatemoderncvlatex
meetKazuki/iReporter
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
iReporter enables any/every citizen to bring any form of corruption to the notice of appropriate authorities and the general public.
Contributions:35 PRs, 90 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 10 months
authoritiescorruptionipsireportersherlock
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