Summary
Okechukwu Ugwu is a software engineer with 12 years’ experience building and maintaining high-availability web systems, currently contributing backend services at Chargehive in the Greater Portsmouth area. He has a proven track record of optimising cost and performance—developing tools for database pruning, resource scaling, and automated data repair across MySQL, RabbitMQ and Cassandra. Comfortable both as a hands-on developer and mentor, he has led framework maintenance, code reviews and introduced BI solutions to drive business decisions. A strong advocate for clean, maintainable code, he also brings practical deployment and release management experience from Jenkins and JIRA workflows. His background combines formal MSc training in Software Engineering with early full-cycle project ownership from freelance CMS and school-management systems, revealing a pragmatic mix of technical depth and client-facing commercial awareness.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Msc, Software Engineering, Msc, Software Engineering at University of Portsmouth
Diploma, computing, Diploma, computing at Informatics Institute