Raphael Etim
Backend Developer at Graphcool
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolRaphael Etim is a backend developer with 10 years of experience building scalable Node.js services, RESTful APIs and integrations across fintech, adtech and e‑commerce. He has shipped production systems at companies like Getir, Klasha and Andela, working with microservices, gRPC, AWS messaging (SQS/Firehose) and observability tools such as Elasticsearch/Kibana. At Prisma he contributed full-stack examples that showcase Prisma ORM across modern frontends (Svelte, SolidJS, Nuxt)—a sign of his cross-stack fluency and attention to developer experience. He combines a creative, goal‑oriented mindset with a continual unlearning/learning approach that helps him adapt to new frameworks and architectures quickly. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, he pairs hands‑on coding with a history of mentoring and training early-career engineers. Notably, he has implemented cost-saving operational features (e.g., email validation workflows and log migration to Firehose) that improved reliability and reduced expenses.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Second class upper, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Second class upper at University of Port HarcourtBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Second class Upper, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Second class Upper at University of Port Harcourt, Choba Rivers State
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
typescript10
prisma10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
solidjs9
nodejs9
svelte9
wpgraphql7
wordpress-graphql7
graphql7
boilerplate7
mongodb6
trigger6
database-design6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
prisma/prisma-examples
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
🚀 Ready-to-run Prisma example projects
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 17 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Raphael implemented example projects utilizing the Prisma ORM across various frontend frameworks and backend configurations. The user's contributions included creating a Svelte starter project, a SolidJS starter project, and a NuxtJS starter project. They added features such as refresh buttons and loaders to improve the user experience, and adjusted code and configurations to work with each new framework. The user also developed a mocking example to showcase Prisma usage with Javascript.
boilerplateprismaprisma-clientexample-projectsready-to-run
ludralph/random-phone-number-generator
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:37 PRs, 62 pushes, 59 branches in 6 years 3 months
reactjsexpressjs
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