Ikechukwu Kalu
Head Of Engineering at Bamboo
Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
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Top SchoolIkechukwu Kalu is a hands-on engineering leader with nine years of experience building and scaling cloud-native products across fintech and startup ecosystems. As Head of Engineering at Bamboo, he has guided teams from concept to production, driving backend architecture, infrastructure, and code-quality improvements that power access to 3,000+ U.S. securities for African investors. Proficient in Elixir, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL/NoSQL and fluent in GCP and AWS, he pairs deep technical craft with people-first leadership that elevates team autonomy and delivery. His background includes designing CI/CD, refactoring legacy systems, and introducing infrastructure best practices to improve reliability and speed of delivery. An MBA focused on AI complements his engineering roots and signals a strong interest in aligning technical direction with product and data-informed strategy. He’s quietly exploring Rust while continuing to ship production-grade distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Artificial Intelligence at Nexford UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Michael Okpara' University of Agriculture Umudike
English, Igbo, French
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Github Skills (68)
javascript10
detector10
open-source10
react-component9
classification-algorithm9
kotlin9
naive-bayes9
container9
swipe-gestures9
integer8
google-cloud8
react8
decimal8
incremental-game8
reactstrap8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
IkechukwuAKalu/temp-mail-detector
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
A Node.js module to detect temporary email addresses
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 8 months
node-jsjavascriptemaildetectoraddresses
IkechukwuAKalu/ikechukwuakalu.github.io
Jun 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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