Josiah Isong
Senior Backend Engineer at Hiyr Ai
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolJosiah Isong is a Senior Backend Engineer with six years of experience building production-grade services across fintech, healthtech, and AI startups based in Lagos, Nigeria. With a BSc in Biochemistry, he uniquely blends life-sciences insight—gained at NIMR and Neimeth Pharmaceuticals—with pragmatic backend engineering, informing data-driven solutions for drug discovery-adjacent workflows and clinical platforms. He has progressed through roles at companies like Evolve Credit, MedConnect Europe, Munch Technologies and now Hiyr Ai, delivering scalable APIs and backend systems for regulated domains. Comfortable translating research requirements into reliable software, Josiah also has hands-on exposure to ML engineering and a curiosity for applying automation to accelerate scientific discovery. Quietly interdisciplinary, he brings both lab experience and production backend rigor to teams tackling complex, data-sensitive problems.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS Biochemistry at University of Lagos
German, English
Github Skills (18)
devc8
sendgrid7
period7
deep-learning7
saas6
twilio5
nodejs5
transactional-emails5
api5
javascript5
docker4
kubernetes3
devops3
js-api3
mahjong1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
isongjosiah/mastering-go
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:54 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
isongjosiah/bioinformatics
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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