Florence Okosun
Senior Backend Engineer at Roofr
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolFlorence Okosun is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Toronto with over a decade of experience delivering maintainable, testable PHP backends and APIs for SaaS and e-commerce platforms. She specializes in Laravel and custom PHP frameworks, optimizing performance-sensitive endpoints and refactoring monolithic order systems into scalable, queued architectures. Comfortable working remotely in Agile teams, she routinely breaks down epics into well-scoped stories, drives code quality through reviews and automated tests, and coordinates CI/CD deployments on Kubernetes and cloud providers. Her track record includes integrating SSO and multi-tenant workflows, adding payment methods, and improving response times by tuning ORM queries for large datasets. Colleagues rely on her pragmatic engineering—she combines backend craftsmanship with hands-on operational monitoring and log-driven remediation. Despite an accounting degree background, she pivoted into software and now leverages cross-disciplinary thinking to deliver reliable, user-focused backend solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Accounting, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Accounting at University of LagosOND Computer Science, OND Computer Science at Yaba College of Technology
English, Yoruba, Esan, nigerian pidgin english
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (110)
testing10
architecture10
laravel10
cookbook10
php10
php-cs-fixer9
api9
crud9
tooling9
phpunit9
backpack9
mvp9
webpack9
hateoas9
laravel-framework9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
fokosun/Checkpoint4
Dec 2015 - Jan 2020
A learning management app
Contributions:377 commits, 176 PRs, 342 pushes in 4 years
learning-managementapp-management
fokosun/webscrapa
Apr 2016 - Aug 2018
A simple PHP web scraper package
Contributions:4 releases, 49 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 4 months
phpweb-scrapercrawlerscraperphp-web
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