Daniel Okafor

Senior Software Engineer

daniel.okafor@example.com +44 7700 900142 Manchester, United Kingdom linkedin.com/in/example-profile github.com/example

Summary

Seven years building high-traffic payment and order services. I work on deployment safety, observability and latency in systems with very little tolerance for error. Have led three teams technically and spend a fair share of my time on code review culture and mentoring.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

March 2022 – Present

Fintech company · Manchester

Split the payments service into six microservices; deployment time fell from 45 minutes to 7.
Designed a caching layer for an API taking 12 million requests a week; p95 latency dropped from 480 ms to 120 ms.
Rebuilt the incident response process; mean time to resolution improved by 38%.

Software Engineer

January 2020 – February 2022

E-commerce platform · Leeds

Migrated the order management module to TypeScript; type-related production defects fell 60%.
Raised automated test coverage from 31% to 74%; regression rollbacks went from 9 a quarter to 2.
Built the autoscaling configuration that absorbed 4× traffic through promotional periods.

Software Developer

July 2018 – December 2019

Technology agency · Sheffield

Built React and Node.js interfaces across nine client projects.
Created a shared component library that cut new project setup from two weeks to three days.
Set up the continuous integration pipeline and removed every manual deployment step.

Education

September 2014 – June 2018

University of Manchester

BSc, Computer Science · First Class

September 2012 – June 2014

Sheffield College

Foundation Degree, Web Development · Distinction

Skills

TypeScriptGoReact and Next.jsNode.jsDockerKubernetesAWSGitHub ActionsTechnical leadershipMentoringIncident management

Projects

Payments Service Decomposition

Broke a monolithic payments application into six services, using a dual-write strategy for a cutover with no downtime. Deployment frequency went from once a week to six times a day.

Observability Pipeline

Built the distributed tracing and structured logging stack; median time to find root cause fell from 52 minutes to 19.

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAmazon Web Services · 2024-04
Certified Kubernetes Application DeveloperCNCF · 2023-09

Languages

English · Native
French · Proficient

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ATS compatibility: Excellent
Photo: No photo

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