Wapnen Gowok
Lead Backend Engineer at Alison
Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
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Top SchoolWapnen Gowok is a Lead Backend Engineer with nine years’ experience building high-throughput, cost-efficient systems for large-scale consumer platforms. He rebuilt Alison’s mailing system to reliably send 450M+ emails per month and led API refactors, caching, and integrations that helped sustain 99.99% uptime for a 40M+ user product. Previously he managed and mentored backend teams at uLesson, delivering live lessons, scheduled tests, notifications and security hardening while improving observability with Datadog/CloudWatch. Skilled in PHP, Node.js, Redis, Docker and payment integrations, he combines hands-on coding with operational ownership and developer experience improvements (like OS X-friendly Docker setups and Swagger OpenAPI fixes). Based in Abuja, he has a track record of turning legacy bottlenecks into scalable services that save cost and reduce system complexity.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Valley View University
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Github Skills (56)
laravel10
paystack10
payment-service9
payment9
php9
credit9
laravel-framework8
google-cloud-platform7
credit-card7
transfer7
jwt7
authentication7
lumen6
google-cloud6
web-token6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wapnen/google-cloud-vision-php
May 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
wapnen/internship-repository
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 10 branches in 1 month
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