Work

Building backend services for a health technology platform, with a focus on reliable, secure, and scalable systems that handle sensitive healthcare data.

• Design and develop backend services and APIs that power core product workflows, prioritising reliability, data integrity, and clean domain modelling.
• Build and harden data pipelines and integrations, keeping patient and operational data accurate, secure, and compliant across services.
• Improve performance and observability of production systems, tightening latency and reducing operational overhead as the platform scales.

Backend engineer on the Jobs team, building the systems that make recruiters’ lives easier — shipping new features, scaling existing ones, and keeping the platform, APIs, and databases stable as they grew.

• Led the migration of Dubizzle’s Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to a new platform built on a microservices framework and OpenSearch, increasing scalability by 30% and improving operational efficiency by 15%.
• Built hiring-pipeline and candidate-relevancy features for the ATS, streamlining recruiters’ workflows and helping them hire the right candidates faster.
• Continuously monitored production systems to identify and eliminate bottlenecks and bugs, keeping performance optimal at scale.

Full-stack engineer at a Y Combinator–backed startup, building features across customer, rider, and business applications with a focus on code quality, maintainability, and testing.

• Increased customer acquisition by 32% by designing and shipping a secure, scalable B2B microservice tailored to business needs.
• Built a scalable payment microservice in GoLang and integrated Paypro to enable secure card payments, streamlining checkout and business operations.
• Reduced inventory fraud by 63% by integrating Microsoft Dynamics for tighter, more reliable inventory management.

Early-career engineer on a fast-moving logistics platform, building tools that improved rider quality and operational efficiency.

• Designed a rider complaint system that penalised repeat offences, improving service quality and rider accountability.
• Built a Rider Training Portal that smoothed onboarding and training for new riders.
• Optimised the automated dispatching algorithm using tools like Graphhopper and NextBillion, cutting delivery cost and time.