Emeka Okafor
Network Service Delivery Engineer at Equinix EMEA
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolEmeka Okafor is a Network Service Delivery Engineer and backend software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, resilient systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. He combines deep telecommunications expertise—managing large-scale Ciena, Huawei GPON, and carrier Ethernet deployments—with hands-on automation in Python that streamlines network operations and delivery. Equally comfortable designing microservices with FastAPI and Node.js, he has led teams to ship Kubernetes-based SaaS platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and AI agent integrations that turn ML capabilities into product features. Based in Lagos, he blends systems-level thinking from his industrial engineering background with practical devops skills (Docker, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL/MongoDB) to optimize performance and reliability. Notably, he has bridged core network implementations and modern backend architectures, making him a rare practitioner at the intersection of telecom infrastructure and cloud software.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in engineering, Industrial and Production Engineering, Bachelor in engineering, Industrial and Production Engineering at Nnamdi Azikiwe UniversityMaster of Science in Digital Transformation (MSDT), Digital Transformation, Master of Science in Digital Transformation (MSDT), Digital Transformation at Nexford University
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Github Skills (29)
gestures8
pinch8
gesture8
user-authentication8
api7
paystack7
react6
subtraction6
svg6
dictionary6
python6
javascript6
react-native6
android5
authentication5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Emekaer/Shopping-app
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
An e-commerce app built using React Native. It features user Authentication, buyer and seller modes, and in-app payments using Paystack(Stripe).
Contributions:32 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
in-app-paymentsreactpaymentsstripeecommerce
Emekaer/Colour-Complement
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
A mobile app(built using React Native) that provides Complementary colours to selected colours based of the Colour Theory. It gives the name, hex code and the RGB value of the colour(if applicable). It allows for saving colours by project and sharing the chosen colours.
Contributions:7 pushes in 6 months
hexreactreact-nativesharingcomplementary
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