Gift Amah
Senior Software Engineer at GitStart
Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolGift Amah is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building resilient, high-performance backend systems for fintech and SaaS products from Lagos, Nigeria. He specializes in designing and migrating monoliths to microservices, using Golang and PHP (Laravel) alongside Redis and RabbitMQ to ensure low-latency, reliable transaction processing. Comfortable across languages and frameworks—Golang, Ruby on Rails, Django, Vue.js—he balances pragmatic engineering with strong design instincts to deliver client-facing solutions that scale under pressure. He has led teams, refactored legacy codebases for maintainability, and implemented CI/CD and observability practices to reduce errors and accelerate delivery. A quietly curious engineer, he often blends backend optimization with thoughtful admin tooling (e.g., Laravel Nova) to improve both developer velocity and customer support workflows.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic
Github Skills (15)
laravel9
php9
updating7
laravel-framework7
laravel-nova5
react4
media-library3
parsedown3
summernote2
blogger2
markdown2
html2pdf2
extensible1
symfony-bundle1
symfony1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
codedgift/Online-Career-Guidance
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
codedgift/user_management_api
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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