Stephen Afam-osemene
Senior Software Engineer at GamePLAI
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStephen Afam-osemene is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years’ experience building backend systems and data pipelines across startups and scale-ups, currently based in Birmingham. He specializes in Go, distributed databases, and APIs—having shipped services at JustWatch that ingested, cleaned and matched sports data and worked with PostgreSQL, ScyllaDB, Elasticsearch and Kubernetes. A pragmatic engineer who also champions language adoption, he helped introduce Go at Engel & Völkers and contributes to notable open-source tooling like sqlboiler, adding schema-driven features for timestamps, soft deletes and generated columns. Stephen pairs product-minded thinking (Micromasters in Digital Leadership/Product Management) with hands-on implementation, and has a track record of turning complex integrations into reliable, production-grade services.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
J.S.S.C.E Sciences, J.S.S.C.E Sciences at Holy Infant International Secondary SchoolW.A.S.S.C.E, W.A.S.S.C.E at Gbenoba Senior Secondary School, Agbor.Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Mechanical Engineering at University of BeninMicromasters Digital Leadership, Micromasters Digital Leadership at Boston University
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Github Skills (12)
databases10
code-generation10
go10
orm10
database10
postgresql9
sql9
mysql8
wordpress6
woocommerce6
javascript6
php6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
volatiletech/sqlboiler
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Generate a Go ORM tailored to your database schema.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 20 reviews, 91 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to enhancing the `sqlboiler` project, which is a Go ORM generator. Their work involved implementing features related to column type replacement and generating Go code based on the database schema. They added configurations for timestamp and soft delete columns, alongside support for generated columns and views. The user also focused on bug fixes, such as dealing with zero values of `types.NullDecimal` and fixing issues in enum value parsing.
golangmysqlsqlboilergo-ormsql
go-swiss/fonts
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
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