Ifeanyi Okafor
Senior Backend Engineer (Lead) at Cartle
Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolIfeanyi Okafor is a Senior Backend Engineer and technical lead with 5 years of experience building scalable SaaS and e-commerce platforms from Lagos. He blends backend, DevOps, and fullstack skills—NestJS/Node.js, React, AWS, Docker, and GitHub Actions—to deliver APIs and cloud-native infrastructure that prioritize performance, security, and developer experience. At Cartle he led backend and DevOps efforts supporting 500+ merchants, cut cloud costs by 32%, and sped up deployments by 40% through CI/CD automation and targeted optimizations. Past projects include decentralized healthcare tooling that applied encrypted, patient-centered storage models and real-time APIs, showing his interest in privacy-first architectures. Known for mentoring junior engineers and improving observability with Sentry and Grafana Loki, he pairs hands-on execution with strategic architecture decisions. He’s passionate about turning complex product needs into maintainable, high-performance systems that scale.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech Computer Science at Federal University of Technology Owerri Nigeria
Github Skills (29)
json9
mongoose9
rest9
api9
python8
openapi8
swagger-ui8
redoc8
swagger8
fastapi8
async8
json-schema8
spin7
mongod7
high-performance7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Okafor-Ifeanyi/csc_school_portal
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
My Team and I building a School Portal for my Department to help them populate student results and calculate students CGPA by the session
Contributions:56 PRs, 60 pushes, 23 branches in 4 months
Okafor-Ifeanyi/Okafor-Ifeanyi
Aug 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:85 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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