Summary
Gabriel Kwaye is a Senior Software Engineer and Cloud & DevOps consultant with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping backend systems for fintech, telecom and enterprise clients. He specializes in Java/Spring Boot microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka/JMS), containerized deployments and CI/CD, and has integrated blockchain (CELO) wallets and payments into production platforms. Progressing from junior developer to tech lead, he combines system architecture, performance optimization and team mentoring to improve stability and delivery cadence. He also builds automation—WhatsApp bots, deployment pipelines and monitoring—bridging product needs and operational reliability. Based in Douala, Cameroon, Gabriel contributes to open-source projects and holds Laravel certification, reflecting a pragmatic polyglot background across Java, PHP and Go. A former trainer with a strong grounding in networking and DB design, he brings both field-level troubleshooting instincts and production-grade engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Google Africa Scholarship Mobile Web Specialist Course, Mobile Web Specialist, Google Africa Scholarship Mobile Web Specialist Course, Mobile Web Specialist at Andela Learning Community
Associate Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Associate Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Dschang
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Software, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Software at Higher Institute of Technology - University of Douala
Master 1 (M1), Computer Science Applied to Business Administration (CSABA), Master 1 (M1), Computer Science Applied to Business Administration (CSABA) at University of Douala
French, English, German