Position: Software Engineer
Category: Python
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 4


I'm umar, a senior backend engineer with 4 years of production-level experience.  

I previously worked with mercurieinc ( a marketplace startup in Nigeria, helped them launch their product and obtain over 5000 monthly paying merchant), 

I also worked with a Washington DC base company, providing data analytics to companies like Netflix  

My primary technology stack is Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, NodeJS, ReactJs I also have expertise level working with GCP, AWS, terraform and many devops tools, working with RDMS and NOSQL databases  and many more.

My works

Full stack development on a standalone app in the Avalanche mono repo 

 Built UI components in React.js to digitize the process of survey analysis 

 Led implementation of a metrics dashboard using New Relic, Grafana & Prometheus 

 Automated asynchronous task/jobs using celery and RabbitMQ broker 

 Used Terraform to provision cloud resources on AWS, and Circle-CI for Continues Integration and Continues Delivery 

 Built backend APIs with python and Django rest framework 

 Used Cypress.js to write end-to-end tests and Pytest for unit testing  Architect and Designed the backend system of a food delivery platform deployed to AWS ECS 

 Developed all of the REST APIs. Built with Python(Django), and PostgreSQL(DjangoORM). 

 Managed the online database and took charge of the deployment. I also wrote the documentation of the whole APIs with Postman and Swagger. 

 Improved Server performance by caching high computational calculations to Redis, and also served static assets and media files using AWS CloudFront (CDN)