Kelvin Chikezie
Senior Backend Engineer at Afrinvest (West Africa) Limited
Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
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Top SchoolKelvin Chikezie is a Senior Backend Engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience building high-performance, scalable APIs and backend systems for fintech and enterprise applications. He specializes in PHP/Laravel and TypeScript/NestJS, with a track record of reducing transaction latency through database indexing and query optimization while delivering secure, well-integrated services. At Afrinvest he helped re-architect a major platform for higher availability and speed, and previously streamlined third-party API integrations and financial reporting automation for fast-growing fintechs. Comfortable bridging product, operations, and customer-facing teams, Kelvin pairs technical delivery with a pragmatic focus on reducing support tickets and improving user experience. He’s driven by continuous learning—“while (learning && unlearning && relearning) { return growth; }”—and often turns manual workflows into minutes-long automations.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Mathematics/Computer Science, B.Sc., Mathematics/Computer Science at University of Agriculture, Makurdi
English, Igbo
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Github Skills (14)
react8
laravel6
oauth6
expressjs5
authentication5
php4
api4
nodejs4
boilerplate4
image-upload4
laravel-passport3
backend3
oauth2-server2
docker1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hng-tech/kidstories
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Kid Stories
Contributions:245 commits, 141 PRs, 195 pushes in 3 months
reactkid
EphraimDev/marketplace
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:80 commits, 57 PRs, 33 pushes in 8 days
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