Rowland Ogwara
Principal Associate
Wadsworth, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRowland Ogwara is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer and principal associate with a decade of experience building scalable web systems and leading engineering teams across academia, fintech, and startups. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and has a track record of shipping impactful migrations and performance improvements—earlier in his career he drove a 1,000% request-handling improvement while refactoring legacy systems. Comfortable in hands-on and leadership roles, he’s led R&D, engineering management, and senior developer positions at organizations including SEAMFIX, Central Michigan University, the University of Chicago, Dot, and now Capital One. Rowland enjoys mentoring, explaining complex ideas simply, and continuously learning, guided by a pragmatic philosophy captured on his GitHub: “know the things that you do not know.” Based in Wadsworth, Illinois, he blends systems thinking with practical delivery to turn ambiguous requirements into reliable, well-tested software.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Central Michigan UniversityB. Eng., Electronic Engineer, B. Eng., Electronic Engineer at University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Stackoverflow
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1kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (82)
network-graph10
testing10
gdc10
api10
data-transfer10
tushare10
risk-assessment10
data-integrity10
java10
dictionary10
igraph10
data-dictionary10
assertj10
sqlalchemy10
social-network-analysis10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NCI-GDC/indexclient
May 2019 - Jul 2024
Prototype index service client.
Contributions:7 releases, 30 reviews, 11 PRs in 5 years 2 months
golangprototypeservice-clientindex
NCI-GDC/dcc-import
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Reference data importers
Contributions:2 releases, 8 reviews, 9 PRs in 5 months
datareference-data
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