Chukwuemeka Olorondu
Senior Backend Engineer at Upfort
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolChukwuemeka Olorondu is a Senior Backend Engineer with 8 years building scalable, reliable systems across fintech, digital assets, and health platforms from Lagos, Nigeria. He blends a deep curiosity for high-scalability backend design with practical experience shipping production services like multi-country payment rails, event-streamed wallets, and fraud detection for card funding. At Rise he led initiatives that directly improved retention and enabled regional expansion, and at Propine and Hazon he delivered compliant custody features and large-scale health and market-intelligence platforms. He is actively exploring the intersection of AI and real-world systems, focusing on AI agents that can integrate with production backends. Known for mentoring juniors and reducing operational friction via retriable transactions and robust instrumentation, he pairs technical rigor with product-minded problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of Lagos
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Github Skills (20)
rabbitmq8
webservice8
django6
backend5
microservices5
typescript5
chatroom4
python4
crud4
spring3
php3
spring-boot3
javascript3
redux2
stackoverflow2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
olorondu-emeka/algorithms-and-data-structures
May 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
olorondu-emeka/clean-architecture-example
Sep 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:1 push in 4 years 10 months
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