Wisdom Ebong
Software Engineer
Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolWisdom Ebong is a software engineer with eight years' experience building full-stack and backend systems across startups and product teams in Nigeria. He has shipped production REST APIs, integrations and CI/CD-driven features at organizations like Ushahidi and 54gene, and contributed to the popular Ushahidi platform by adding user email notifications, permission checks, and client-side settings improvements. Comfortable across Node.js, PHP/Laravel, PostgreSQL, Redis and front-end work, Wisdom pairs hands-on coding with DevOps and operational support to improve reliability and performance. He also mentors and teaches—having facilitated developer learning at Start Innovation Hub—bringing a practical, team-oriented approach to projects. Based in Lagos and active in local community building, he blends a mechanical engineering background with software craftsmanship to solve real-world problems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering at University of Uyo
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
laravel-mix10
user-interface10
livewire10
laravel10
php10
api10
html10
dependency-injection10
testing9
reflection9
test-driven-design9
security9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ushahidi/platform
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Ushahidi Platform API version 3+
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 reviews, 302 commits, 156 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Wisdom implemented features for sending user emails upon password changes by modifying the `UpdateUser` use case to include email notifications. They refactored `UpdateUser` and `UpdateUsecase` classes for improved functionality and modified the `ApiKeyAuthorizer` to check for user permissions for added security. Furthermore, the user updated the configuration and test files in the repository.
apiapi-platformapi-versionushahidi
ushahidi/platform-client
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Ushahidi Platform Client, version 3+
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 40 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Wisdom primarily focused on enhancing the Ushahidi Platform Client's user interface and settings configurations. They implemented a new donation settings view, including image uploads and a wallet address configuration. The user also made improvements to the data source settings, specifically integrating Gmail authentication and date picker functionality. Furthermore, the user contributed to cleaning up and refactoring the date picker component.
web-appweb-applicationushahidi
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.