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

University of Manchester

September 2014 – June 2018

BSc, Computer Science · First Class

Sheffield College

September 2012 – June 2014

Foundation Degree, Web Development · Distinction

Skills

TypeScript · Go · React and Next.js · Docker · Kubernetes · AWS · Technical leadership · Mentoring · Incident 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.

Languages

English · Native
French · Proficient

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