Philip Obiora
Software Engineer at ForgeCave Technologies
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolPhilip Obiora is a software engineer based in Lagos with five years of experience building production-grade, cloud-native backends and DevOps workflows for startups. He specializes in Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, having delivered scalable APIs and automated infrastructure across Azure, Google Cloud, and DigitalOcean. Philip has shipped AI-driven features like recommendation engines and real-time learning experiences, and has reduced developer friction by designing CLI tools and Kubernetes workflows. His work blends backend performance tuning (Postgres query optimization) with robust deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions, AKS), enabling reliable, observable systems in distributed environments. Notably, he moves between hands-on engineering and platform-level improvements—often converting prototypes into containerized, cloud-deployed services. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Lagos and brings a pragmatic, automation-first approach to solving operational challenges.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bsc, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Lagos
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Github Skills (119)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Philip-21/Go-Microservice
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:92 commits, 95 pushes, 11 branches in 8 months
Philip-21/Python-Workspace
Oct 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:50 pushes, 7 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 1 month
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