George Badu
Senior Staff Engineer at StoneX Group Inc.
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Badu is a Senior Staff Engineer based in London with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and scalable web platforms across finance, commerce, and travel tech. He has progressed through senior engineering roles at HSBC, Reaction Commerce and StoneX, contributing to production-grade APIs, GraphQL resolvers and permission systems for open commerce platforms deployed with Docker and Kubernetes. Comfortable in both fast-paced startups and large enterprises, he combines practical engineering with code refactors that improve modularity, context handling and test coverage. Known for adapting quickly to changing tech landscapes, he pairs a MSc in Computer Science from Queen Mary University with a track record of shipping reliable account and permission management features in well-known open-source projects.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
nodejs10
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
react8
ecommerce7
graphql6
docker6
wordpress-graphql6
wpgraphql6
dockers6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
reactioncommerce/reaction
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Mailchimp Open Commerce is an API-first, headless commerce platform built using Node.js, React, GraphQL. Deployed via Docker and Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 11 PRs, 52 pushes in 14 days
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the development of backend features related to creating and managing permission groups within the Reaction Commerce platform. Their work involved creating GraphQL resolvers, mutations, and associated tests for group creation. They also refactored the code to improve modularity and ensure proper use of context, including database interactions and permission validations. The user's contributions focused on defining and implementing core functionalities for the platform's account management system.
ecommerceapi-firstshopping-cartreact-jsshop
quophyie/javashared
Apr 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:151 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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