Chibuzor Ogbu
Full Stack Software Engineer www.linkedin.com/
in/chibuzorogbu/
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www.github.com/chibuzoro
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Tech Lead/Senior Backend Developer, Sales oor Inc - June/2021 - present - Montreal, Quebec
Founded in 2013, Salesfloor has grown to a profitable technology platform with a world-class client base
in North America and around the globe. It provides a mobile clienteling and mPOS platform designed for
store associates.
⇢ Improve performance, security and fault tolerance of legacy multi-tenant SAAS stack built
using PHP, MySql, Firebase, Redis, JavaScript, ElasticSearch, docker, and infrastructure
services from AWS and GCP (S3, pubsub, etc).
⇢ Lead application stack upgrade e orts which involves migrating legacy API from outdated/
unsupported frameworks to a modern framework (Laravel), API optimizations and
deprecations,
⇢ Re ne and Translate new product requirements and technical/feature documentation to
foster faster onboarding and quality in nal product
⇢ Manage development team happiness and project progress by reducing complexity in
system architecture and providing full stack support to developers
Lead/Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Create Music Group - October/2019 - June/2021 Vancouver, British Columbia
Create Music Group is one of the fastest growing music technology companies in the entertainment
industry. We monetize over 8 billion monthly music streams and are currently one of the largest music
rights holders in the world. Located in the US and Canada.
⇢ Built performant microservices and API/Portal applications using PHP (Laravel), databases
(Postgres, MySQL, and Redis), JavaScript (React, NodeJs) and Docker containers on AWS
infrastructure ((SNS, SQS, ELK, ECS) which replaced legacy monoliths features, reducing
onboarding time and cost of development
⇢ Provided DevOps support to my team, including the development of tools such as a pragmatic
Rest API framework as an internal package for Laravel and API standards documents to aid
quicker releases of products.
⇢ Supported in the organization and documentation of system requirements and solving
architectural bottlenecks
⇢ Mentored team members through code reviews, pair programming and exploratory meet up.
Senior Software Engineer (Remote), Asecca Limited - September/2017 - October/2019 - White
Lund, Lancaster
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Asecca is one of the world’s widest reaching corporate technology disposal firms located in the UK.
⇢ Proposed, crafted and integrated the realtime chat and noti cation (web and desktop)
interfaces into existing Laravel applications using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (Vue, NodeJs and
Service Workers), increasing customer engagement and service response time.
⇢ Transformed Multi-page application (MPA) to Single-page Progressive Web App (SPA PWA),
using PHP, JavaScript (Vue, Vuex and service workers), Redis, saving bandwidth/request cost,
server processing overheads and improving user experience.
⇢ Improved development team productivity through the decoupling of frontend from backend
and modularizing tasks/UI into Restful API services or reusable components, increasing
frequency of new feature rollouts.
⇢ Maintained a scalable Web-service infrastructure with AWS stack (EC2, ELB, EBS, RDS,
Elasticsearch), deploying Restful API web services using LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql and
PHP7) stack that are highly available.
⇢ Reduced Technical Debt by 35% introducing Scrum Agile methodology and kanban tools,
eliminating “shortcut development” practices, promoting a clearer requirements de nition.
Senior Software Engineer, Byteworks Limited - Oct/2015 - Oct/2017 - Ajah, Lagos
Byteworks is a tech startup focused on deploying tailored workflow apps and ERP systems for SMEs in
the African Market. Located in Lagos, Nigeria.
⇢ Built, implemented and maintained much software using PHP, JavaScript, RabbitMQ, Zend
framework, Laravel, Nginx, Angular, MySQL, Postgres, Vue, and Node.js, being frequently
appraised for prompt software delivery and cross-functional insights.
⇢ Improved team collaboration by introducing pair programming to solve complex design and
performance problems, fostering an increase in the quality of products shipped.
⇢ Earned clients’ trust and referrals for the company through good requirements gathering,
communication and translation into the nal product, displaying attention to detail and focus on
meeting client needs.
Group Tech Project Lead, Chisco Group of Companies - Oct/2013 - Oct/2015 - Iponri, Lagos
Chisco is an outstanding brand in the transport & logistics sphere with remarkable visibility across Nigeria
and the west coast of Africa (Togo, Accra, Ghana, Abidjan etc).
⇢ Designed and delivered Central Business Information System, Websites and Online POS using
Python and PHP that provided process transparency, operation e ciency and helped mitigate
losses across 8 subsidiary businesses by 85% through the transfer from manual/paper based
business processes to an automated one.
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⇢ Improved service delivery at over 23 o ces located both locally and internationally by
remodeling and deploying an in-terminal travel booking application built with PHP (Zend
Framework) and jQuery.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES
⇢ Software Engineer, Chisco Transport Ltd - June/2010 - Sept/2013
⇢ Web Administrator (NYSC), Kaan Properties Ltd - July/2009 - June/2010
⇢ Web Software Developer, BonVoyage Travels & Tours Ltd - December/2008 - June/2009
SIDE PROJECTS
Order Ful llment Automation System: Built with PHP Zend Framework, NodeJs, and Angular to
solve the problem of order ful llment for Medplus Limited.
E-commerce website: Deployed PHP Wordpress online store with custom payment integration to
Interswitch WebPay gateway services for Hair by KoKo company. PHP, MySQL and JSON used.
Travels & Tours CRM: Developed and maintained intranet web-based portal for tracking Customer
Leads and Employee Performance for a travel agency.
Client Portfolio & Document Manager: Custom integration with Openkm knowledge
Management - an opensource document manager, to solve case handling for a Legal rm.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATES
2014 MIT. in Information Technology, University of Lagos. Nigeria
2008 B.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Lagos. Nigeria
TECHNICAL SKILLS
(10+ years): PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, JQuery, HTML, CSS and BootStrap.
(6+ years): Git, Zend Framework, Laravel, Postgres.
(4+ years): Software Architecture, Vue, Webpack, Angular, AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Python,
WordPress.
(2+ years): Sass, NodeJs, React, Express.
(+6 months): Dart/Flutter (cross platform mobile development).
LANGUAGES
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English - Fluent
