Jabir Minjibir
Senior Backend Engineer (Contract) at Independent Consultant / Stealth B2B SaaS
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJabir Minjibir is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Ottawa with a decade of hands-on experience designing high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems for fintech and enterprise domains. He specializes in Scala, event sourcing, DDD, and Kafka, and consistently turns complex specifications into resilient, concurrent production code. Jabir has a track record of migrating legacy systems to fault-tolerant, event-driven microservices and building Ledger-as-a-Service and financial transaction platforms using Pekko/Cluster, ScyllaDB, gRPC, and Protobuf. He’s pragmatic about maintainability—introducing cloud-local developer environments and governance practices that reduce operational overhead and technical debt. Known for solving difficult concurrency and data-integrity problems, he also brings academic rigor with an MSc in Computer Science and early full-stack experience that informs practical end-to-end solutions.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at African University of Science and Technology [AUST]Bachelor of Science - B.Sc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc, Computer Science at Bayero University, Kano
English
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Github Skills (35)
actor-framework10
concurrent10
jvm10
reactive10
distributed-systems10
akka10
java10
akka-streams10
message-driven10
bootswatch10
high-performance10
cloud-native10
actor-model10
concurrency10
streaming10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
minjibir/pekko-connectors
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
Apache Pekko Connectors is a Reactive Enterprise Integration library for Java and Scala, based on Reactive Streams and Apache Pekko.
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
minjibir/quick-note-backend
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 25 days
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