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David Ekpo

Senior Software Engineer
Experienced full stack software engineer with a successful track record of solving business problems with technology, with expertise in systems design/architecture, front-end, back-end, and DevOps technologies, helping create and deploy modern, robust, easy to maintain, and reliable systems and applications.
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Legitify Inc
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University of PortHarcourt

Professional Background

  • Current status
  • Profession
    Back-end Engineer
    Front-end Engineer
    DevOps / System Admin
  • Fields
    Software
    Mobile Apps
    Internet
  • Work experience
    4-6 years (4-6 years relevant)
  • Management
    I've had experience in managing 10-15 people
  • Highest level of education
    Bachelor

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
  • Desired work locations
  • Freelance

Work Experience

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Senior Full Stack Engineer

Legitify Inc
Contract
May 2021 - Present
Dublin, Ireland
* Designed microservices architecture of the platform - along with the CTO - for high availability, scalability, and performance to cater to the first 1 million users. * Worked to support the CTO with day-to-day tasks. * Involved in overseeing the overall development efforts which were instrumental in getting the company into Antler VC and voted HackerNoon's best startup of the year award (Dublin) for 2021. * Reduced bugs/defects by 50% by Initiating behavior-driven development within the development teams. * Developed core back-end microservices with Kong, Eve/Flask, ExpressJS, MongoDB and deployed on AWS using Gitlab CI for CI/CD. * Led the development of core front-end microservices using ReactJS, MobX, Jest, and other technologies.
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Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead)

Dec 2018 - May 2021
2 yrs 6 mos
San Francisco, CA, USA
* Led a team of 11 full stack software engineers building EzeTradeIn - the world’s first commodities exchange platform for devices - core suite of software into Y-Combinator accelerator. * Developed architecture of the suite of applications, building and deploying performant, reliable applications. Used JavaScript, Python, ExpressJS, ReactJS, Redux, MongoDB, Redis and deployed on Heroku. * Led the development and deployment of version 2.0 of the platform (using JavaScript/Go, MongoDB) leading to a successful demo day at YC. * In charge of hiring new developers and team forecasting to meet business/development needs.
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Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead)

Dominode Inc.
Full-time
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018
1 yr 1 mo
Boca Raton, FL, USA
* Developed both front-end and mobile architecture of new app versions, improving performance and reducing bugs by over 60% * Led the development of the front-end of the Dominode Enterprise Back-office app, which helped enterprise clients manage digital identities. * Also, led a team of developers on the Dominode Digital Passport project (mobile apps), the mobile client of the decentralized applications. Built using React-Native. * Developed and employed better development practices across teams for more efficiency using behavior-driven development, versioning, bug/error tracking, app health checks, etc
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Author | Professional Angular Courseware

Packt Publishing
Contract
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
5 mos
• Co-authored the courseware titled Professional Angular which is targeted at intermediate angular developers and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. • Analyzed pain points then developed materials (explanations, activities, instructions, and slides) to reduce the barriers to understanding the framework. • Developed web applications using the angular framework (angular v4) to explain concepts.
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Full Stack Software Engineer and Product Designer

Releaf Inc.
Full-time
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
6 mos
San Francisco, CA, USA
* Executed and contributed to full-stack development of the platform, with a priority on design and front-end development using Angular then ReactJS. * Worked on multiple projects using tools that cut across the entire MEAN stack. Also included Bootstrap, jQuery, Less, Git, Gulp, Figma, etc.

Education

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Bachelor of Science (BS)
Mathematics and Computer Science
2011 - 2015