James Ugbanu
Senior Software Engineer at tribe IRL
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolJames Ugbanu is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable, secure, and high-performance systems from Nigeria. He has led engineering teams and shipped production microservice architectures and authentication flows, most recently driving core mortgage platform architecture and co-founding a startup to commercialize new ideas. Comfortable across the full stack, he’s delivered fault-tolerant TypeScript/Docker services, improved backend performance by 70%, and raised test coverage to 95% on key components. James blends hands-on implementation with product-minded leadership—translating MVP requirements into well-scoped, maintainable features—and has a track record of automating processes that scaled to thousands of users. He holds a Computer Science degree with Second Class Upper honors and brings an entrepreneurial bent evident from freelance work to founding a company while continuing in senior engineering roles.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Second Class Upper, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Second Class Upper at Ebonyi State University
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Github Skills (33)
javascript9
nodejs9
react9
css8
math7
stream7
wordpress-rest-api6
woocommerce-rest-api6
android6
codebase6
ram6
woocommerce6
ios6
react-native6
service-worker5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JamesUgbanu/eclassik
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:78 PRs, 112 pushes, 38 branches in 8 months
JamesUgbanu/react-native-woocommerce-api
Feb 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:69 commits, 17 PRs, 50 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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