Chijioke Ibekwe

Senior Software Engineer at Paga Group Ltd

Lagos State, Nigeria
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Chijioke Ibekwe is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lagos with 5–6 years’ experience building high-throughput, regulatory-compliant systems for fintech, logistics, and edtech. He specializes in translating complex risk and compliance requirements into resilient backend architectures, recently leading design and delivery of a real-time Kafka Streams fraud monitoring pipeline at Paga. Comfortable as a technical lead during mission-critical incidents, he couples deep Java expertise with pragmatic tool choice, emphasizing concurrency, idempotency, and clean architecture. His background spans full lifecycle work from embedded firmware to automated E2E testing and multi-tenant SaaS integrations, which gives him an unusually broad systems perspective. A pragmatic open-source advocate, he’s exploring blockchain and DeFi as the next frontier for financial infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for delivering reliable, auditable solutions that protect customer funds and scale with business constraints.
code6 years of coding experience
job6 years of employment as a software developer
bookWASSCE, WASSCE at Federal Government College Enugu
bookBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering at University of Nigeria, Nsukka
languagesEnglish, Igbo
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Github Skills (25)

cloud-init9
javascript9
open-source9
sendgrid-api9
amazon-ses8
python8
sendgrid7
spring-boot7
laravel-framework6
laravel6
spring-mvc6
java6
laravel-package6
spring-api5
search-api5

Programming languages (3)

JavaPHPPython

Github contributions (5)

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chijioke-ibekwe/raven

Dec 2023 - Apr 2026

Laravel multi-channel notification package
Contributions:12 releases, 40 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 4 months
laravelamazon-seslaravel-frameworklaravel-packagenotifications
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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