Ebuka Ugwu
Software Engineer at Alpaca
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEbuka Ugwu is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with 9+ years building payments, brokerage, and trading systems at high-growth startups and YC-backed companies. As a Principal/Staff engineer and engineering manager, he has led large cross-functional teams, delivered aggressive launches (including a one-month product rollout) and drove measurable outcomes like 35% YoY growth and reduced onboarding time by 24%. He specializes in backend payment architectures and full-stack integrations using Node/React/Next, with a knack for translating compliance and business constraints into scalable technical designs. Ebuka pairs hands-on delivery with mentoring—having trained and led dozens of engineers—and brings a collaborative, humorous approach to high-pressure environments. Based in England, he combines telecoms engineering fundamentals with practical product engineering, often surfacing process improvements that boost efficiency by double-digit percentages.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Federal Government Boys’ CollegeFull Stack Web Development, Web Development, Full Stack Web Development, Web Development at freeCodeCampB.Eng., Telecoms Engineering, B.Eng., Telecoms Engineering at Federal University of Technology Minna
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Github Skills (83)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ebukahills/MyCodewarsJS
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ebukahills/GcX
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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