Kayode Badewa
Principal Engineer at Busha
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolKayode Badewa is a Principal Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance, distributed backend systems for FinTech and payments, currently shaping architecture and delivery at Busha. He specializes in Go and Node.js, driving platform reliability, compliance, and scalable service design while mentoring teams and closing the gap between leadership strategy and execution. As a founding backend engineer and later team lead, he has repeatedly taken services from inception to production, optimizing for performance with Docker, SQL/NoSQL, and Redis. Based in Lagos, he blends entrepreneurial experience from co-founding a product studio with hands-on engineering discipline, and is known for turning complex financial requirements into pragmatic, long-lived solutions. An understated strength: he pairs rapid delivery with a focus on data integrity and operational rigor that keeps high-volume financial systems both fast and auditable.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Federal University of Technology AkureCloud Computing, Cloud Computing at Linux Academy
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
cheerio10
crawler10
paystack10
web-crawler9
nodejs9
tasty8
javascript8
api7
mongodb6
database6
chatbot6
golang6
dump6
mongoose6
asynchronous6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kayslay/watl
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:62 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 24 days
kayslay/vid_trimmer
May 2020 - Jan 2021
trim video from youtube/twitter before downloading
Contributions:30 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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