Daniel Okafor
Senior Software Engineer
- daniel.
okafor@ example. com - (512) 555-0148
- Austin, TX
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com/ in/ danielokafor - github.
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Summary
Backend-leaning software engineer with 7 years building high-traffic services in TypeScript, Go and Python. Led the payments platform rewrite at Brightpath that cut checkout latency by 62% and has run at 99.98% uptime since. Happiest owning a system end to end, from design review to on-call.
Work Experience
Senior Software EngineerMar 2022 – PresentBrightpathAustin, TX
- Led a 5-engineer rewrite of the payments service from a Rails monolith to Go microservices, cutting p95 checkout latency from 1.8 s to 680 ms
- Designed an idempotent retry and reconciliation pipeline that reduced failed payouts by 94% and saved ~$310K a year in manual support
- Introduced contract testing and canary deploys; production incidents fell from 11 to 3 per quarter
- Mentored 4 engineers, two of whom were promoted to senior within 18 months
Software EngineerJun 2019 – Feb 2022Lumen HealthRemote
- Built the scheduling API (Node.js, PostgreSQL) used by 1,200 clinics to book 3M+ appointments a year
- Moved nightly batch jobs to an event-driven architecture on Kafka, shrinking data delay from 24 hours to under 2 minutes
- Cut AWS spend by 28% by right-sizing RDS instances and adding Redis caching for hot read paths
Junior DeveloperJan 2018 – May 2019Northgate SoftwareDallas, TX
- Shipped 40+ features for a React and Django inventory product used by 300 retail customers
- Raised unit test coverage on the billing module from 35% to 82%
Education
BS Computer ScienceAug 2013 – May 2017University of Texas at DallasRichardson, TX
Skills
Go · TypeScript · Python · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · CI/CD · System design
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAmazon Web Services · 2023
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