Michael Oketunde
Backend Developer at Shortchase
Nigeria
Summary
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RockstarMichael Oketunde is a pragmatic backend developer with seven years of hands-on experience building scalable web and streaming platforms, currently focused on backend engineering at Shortchase after launching Treats.Vision’s Livepeer-powered video infrastructure. Self-taught and polyglot, he ships production APIs in Go, Rust, Node.js and TypeScript, and combines microservices, Kubernetes, and CI/CD to maintain high-availability systems. He has applied blockchain skills (Solidity/Hardhat) to real products and payment integrations (Stripe/Paystack), and has experience with vector search and data aggregation projects. Michael’s background spans startups and freelance work, from revamping yield comparison services to winning a $10k hackathon for an AI project, reflecting a bias for execution and cross-disciplinary problem solving.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (2)
php10
json9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DreyWesson/team-superman-hngi7
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on modifying a PHP script likely related to a stage 2 task for HNGi7. Their commits demonstrate the creation and modification of a PHP file (gelgit.php) that outputs a JSON-encoded string. They appear to be focused on ensuring the correct output, including personal details like name and HNGi7 ID. Several iterations were made to refine the output, including fixing typos and improving formatting of the text output.
sparkidea25/bookstoreapi
Sep 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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