Abdulfatai Aka
Software Engineer
13 Dogwood, Northern foreshore estate, Lekki
Lagos State
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SKILLS
A software engineer with experience with different technologies and
programming languages including but not limited to Python/Flask/Django,
Ruby/Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/ExpressJS/React, continuous integration,
delivery and deployment using CircleCI and Heroku, containerization using
docker and compose, AWS services such as S3, EC2 and Elastic Cache (Redis)
EXPERIENCE
Techvaults Limited, Nigeria - Lead Software Engineer
Jan 2016 - Oct 2017
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Trained engineers on technologies for backend development
specifically PHP
Worked as lead engineer on the custodian website contract project
using PHP/Laravel
Andela, Nigeria - Software Engineer
Nov 2017 - PRESENT
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Lead a team of 5 fellows in adding functionalities to an E-commerce
application
Worked on an internal tool called (VOF) for boot-campers performance
tracking
Ascent Technologies, Chicago - Software Engineer
Jan 2019 - PRESENT
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Worked as a QA engineer on a customer-facing application, where I
created automated scripts to test the system, performed manual
regression test and system load tests
Worked as a Python engineer in creating regulatory documents
processing pipelines for performing actions such as running optical
character recognition to extract document texts and thereby extracting
business data to be presented to the customers to ensure they stay
compliant.
Decagon institute, Nigeria - Technical Training Associate
Nov 2019 - PRESENT
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Trained accepted boot-campers on Python/Flask/Django
Will be starting a new role for Learning QA in April
EDUCATION
University of Lagos - Bachelor of Science in Pure Mathematics
Oct 2010 - Feb 2015
Graduated with a second class upper in Pure Mathematics
University of Lagos - Master of Science in Pure Mathematics
Jan 2017 - Present
I am left with completing my project but took a detour for getting industry
experience in IT.
AWARDS
Ascent Technologies - impact award for ensuring the company meets the
delivery deadline for reference documents by rapidly getting onboarded onto
a new code base and working with very new technologies (AWS) in solving a
problem that surfaced initially preventing the delivery.
