Shalvah A
Senior Backend Developer at Qonto
Germany
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Top SchoolShalvah A is a Senior Backend Developer based in Germany with over a decade of hands-on software engineering experience and a recent focus on fintech and EdTech at Qonto and Babbel. He specializes in backend systems, API design and observability, having built and migrated cloud services, API gateways, and monitoring stacks for startups and enterprise clients. An active open-source contributor, he has refined popular Laravel and Ruby tooling—improving API documentation generators and the honeybadger-ruby error-reporting gem with AWS Lambda and Rails 7 integrations. Comfortable across stacks, he has balanced senior backend roles with full‑stack responsibilities and technical writing for developer audiences. Collected experience from consulting to in-house product teams gives him a practical knack for turning messy legacy systems into observable, well-documented services. He holds an engineering degree and multiple web development certifications, reflecting a continual focus on modern backend practices.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UdemyFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronics Engineering at University of Nigeria, NsukkaSSCE, Sciences, SSCE, Sciences at Federal Government College, Port Harcourt
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
error-reporting10
apim10
ruby-rails10
api-design10
laravel-mix10
configuration-management10
rails10
laravel10
ruby10
api-documentation10
php10
api10
composer10
sidekiq9
postman9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
knuckleswtf/scribe
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Generate API documentation for humans from your Laravel codebase.✍
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:172 releases, 104 reviews, 1067 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Shalvah made several changes related to refactoring code and updating dependencies within the Scribe project, which is an API documentation generator for Laravel. Specifically, the commits focused on integrating the "Pastel" and "Clara" libraries, which provide code syntax highlighting and logging. The user also performed UI and layout modifications, including updating HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets for proper rendering of the documentation.
apiphpcode-generatorapi-documentationfor-humans
mpociot/laravel-apidoc-generator
Sep 2018 - May 2020
Laravel API Documentation Generator
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 releases, 558 commits, 226 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Shalvah primarily worked on the back-end aspects of the project, specifically the API documentation generator. Their commits involve updating and improving the code for the Dingo API documentation generator, including modifications to the code that generates the API documentation based on different route domains and prefixes. The user fixed issues, modified existing code, and addressed errors to ensure proper functionality of the documentation generator. The contributions demonstrate a focus on refining the core logic of the project.
laravel-apiapidocumentation-generatorapi-documentationapi-generator
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