Samuel Orji
Associate Software Engineer
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolSamuel Orji is an Associate Software Engineer based in Lagos with nine years of experience building and automating backend services, primarily using .NET Core, C#, and SQL with cloud deployments on Azure. He has a proven track record improving reliability and performance—refactoring payment systems to remove production bugs and optimizing database access with Entity Framework and Redis caching. Comfortable in Agile teams, Samuel contributes to API and microservice design, testing with xUnit/NUnit, and cross-functional delivery while also bringing a creative eye from his parallel work in graphic design. An active contributor to open-source Scala tutorials, he has hands-on exposure to functional programming concepts like currying, actors, and Play/Slick integration, highlighting a breadth beyond his primary stack. Samuel combines analytical rigor and collaborative energy to translate complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready backend solutions.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Agricultural Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Agricultural Engineering at University of Agriculture, Makurdi
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Github Skills (16)
scala10
akka10
testing9
slick8
playframework8
sbt7
android-broadcastreceiver6
sql6
android-viewpager6
android6
postgresql6
android-fragments6
java6
user-manual4
learn-ruby-on-rails4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Baeldung/scala-tutorials
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
Supporting code for the tutorials on https://www.baeldung.com/scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Samuel contributed to the repository by adding and modifying Scala code related to functions, actors and testing within the context of Scala tutorials. Their work included examples of partial functions, currying, and actor-based concurrency. They also integrated Play Framework and Slick with an example showing database interaction. Further contributions included examples of unit tests, and applying the `apply` function.
sbtscalascala3
samuelorji/scala-tutorials
May 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 3 months
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