Olanrewaju Abidogun
Senior Backend Engineer-|| https://github.com/codeinbit
SKILLS
Technologies / Programming Languages: PHP (Laravel, Lumen Framework), PHPUnit, PHPStan,
PHPCS, Golang, Ruby on Rails, DigitalOCean, AWS
Databases: Mysql, PostgreSQL
Applications / Tools: Docker, GitHub Actions, Jira, Terminal, Postman, Git, GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket
EXPERIENCE
August 2020 - PRESENT
Credpal, Lagos, Nigeria - Senior Software Engineer
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Lead a team of four backend engineers to revamp the core codebase of loan and credit card
backend systems to ensure scalable, testable and highly quality code, which drastically
increased API response time, better error handling, security, uniform response formats, etc.
Built the entire backend for the credit card and loan affiliate platform and merchant platform.
Designed and built a reward system (point, referral, statement credits) which is used by other
Credpal platforms.
Worked with DevOps team in building CI/CD pipelines and developing system architecture.
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Regularly participate in code reviews and ensure only well written and thoroughly tested
code are shipped.
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Lead the creation of technical design documents, customise and adapt to engineering best
practices tools and applications.
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On-boarding of new colleagues and helping them settle in the team.
Tools & Technologies: Laravel, Golang, REST API, PHPUnit, PHPStan, PHPCS, GitHub Actions,
MySql, Firebase, AWS, etc.
August 2019 - April 2020
TechAdvance Limited, Lagos, Nigeria - Senior Software Engineer
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My role required that I build applications across taxing, utility and hospitality industries for
both businesses and government institutions.
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Collaborated with the team to build a multi-tenant enterprise resource planning (ERP)
software that helps organizations manage their businesses effectively.
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Maintained, provided technical support and added features on request to an Internal
generated revenue solutions currently used by some state governments in Nigeria to
process thousands-millions of transactions.
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Tools & Technologies: Laravel, REST API, PHPUnit, MySql, AWS, Firebase, etc.
SEPTEMBER 2018 - AUGUST 2019
Codekago Interactive, Uyo, Nigeria - Lead Backend Engineer
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Reduced the company running cost on mail by over 1700 percent by setting up a new mail
server to work even at a larger scale.
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Lead a team of four developers to build an enterprise software which helps organization
manage its sales, human resources, payroll, projects and accounting operations.
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Built a cryptocurrency multi-level marketing platform.
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Provision and naged all servers for both in-house and client projects.
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Prepared curriculum and also mentored interns in the engineering team.
Tools & Technologies: Laravel, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHPUnit MySql, Bash, DigitalOcean.
MARCH 2017 - DECEMBER 2017
PeerRenting, Oyo, Nigeria - Co-Founder & Software Developer
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Built a functional minimum viable product (MVP) for a peer-to-peer item renting platform.
Built and deployed an admin visibility platform for PeerRenting.
Tools & Technologies: Laravel, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySql, DigitalOcean.
August 2016 - May 2017
Cellcore Limited, Oyo, Nigeria - Software Developer
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Worked an existing product of the company to implement a new signup flow. This cut down
the paperwork done after registration by over 70% and increased customer retainment.
Refactored the legacy codese to make it more modular and maintainable. Also redesigned
the customer and admin dashboard.
Worked as the only web developer with a team of mobile developers to develop a push
notification platform..
Tools & Technologies: Laravel, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySql, DigitalOcean.
EDUCATION
2012 - 2017
University of Ibadan. Oyo, Nigeria
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.