Summary
Mark Eke is a pragmatic back-end developer with 9 years of experience who specializes in Python, Django, Django REST Framework and scalable API design. He has a strong record of shipping production systems—optimizing request times from 30s to 2.5s, implementing payment integrations and building multi-tenant and realtime features using Celery, Redis and Django Channels. Comfortable across the full stack, Mark also delivers polished front-end experiences with React and prioritizes test-driven development and CI/CD for maintainable codebases. He has contributed to high-stakes AI projects as an LLM trainer and improved model training pipelines while adding backend features for Fortune 50–level initiatives. Based in Nigeria, he pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring experience, having taught and led hundreds of students and junior engineers. Mark is a daily contributor who prefers simple, robust solutions to complex problems and documents his work to make onboarding and long-term maintenance easier.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at MOUAU
Associate's degree, Computer Programming, Associate's degree, Computer Programming at Decagon
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Michael Okpara' University of Agriculture Umudike
Michael Okpara' University of Agriculture Umudike
English, Igbo