2012 - 2017
B.Eng. Computer Engineering
Ahmadu Bello University · Zaria, Nigeria
Gaius Tobi
Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Infrastructure
Backend engineer with 7 years building payment and logistics systems that stay up. Scaled a payments API from 40k to 2.1M transactions/day, cut p99 latency 63%, and mentors a guild of 9 engineers across two time zones.
- ibrahim.bello@example.com
- +234 810 442 1133
- Abuja, Nigeria (remote)
- Based in
- Abuja, Nigeria (remote)
- Now
- Senior Software Engineer at Korapay
- Education
- B.Eng. Computer Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University
- Expertise
- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Postgres
Education
Experience
2021 - Present
Senior Software Engineer
Korapay · Remote
- Own the transaction-processing service: Go, Postgres, Kafka - 2.1M transactions/day at 99.98% uptime.
- Cut p99 checkout latency from 1.9s to 700ms by re-architecting the ledger write path.
- Led the migration from single-VM deploys to Kubernetes across 3 environments.
- Mentor 9 engineers through a fortnightly backend guild; 4 promoted in two years.
2018 - 2021
Software Engineer
Kobo360 · Lagos, Nigeria
- Built the fleet-tracking ingestion pipeline handling 12k GPS events per second.
- Reduced failed delivery reconciliations 41% with an idempotent event-sourcing rewrite.
Projects
2023
naija-ussd - open-source USSD framework
Open Source · github.com/ibello/naija-ussd
- Session-state framework for building USSD flows in Node.js; 800+ GitHub stars, used by 3 fintechs.
Certifications
2023
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services
2022
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CNCF
CNCF
Get in touch
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