Summary
Ebuka 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’ College
Full Stack Web Development, Web Development, Full Stack Web Development, Web Development at freeCodeCamp
B.Eng., Telecoms Engineering, B.Eng., Telecoms Engineering at Federal University of Technology Minna