Danladi Retzam
@danladiretzam
Senior software engineer driving scalable full‑stack solutions.
What I'm looking for
I am a senior software engineer with eight years of full‑stack experience building and scaling web and mobile products for startups, enterprise customers, and government projects. I combine hands‑on development in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP with systems thinking and a practical focus on performance and reliability.
I have led and grown engineering teams, managed payments and payroll product workstreams across multiple countries, and contributed to high‑scale public systems used by hundreds of thousands to over a million users. I have contractor experience researching, annotating, and reviewing advanced AI coding models while building internal review and annotation tools.
I am easygoing, a fast learner, and communicative, with a track record of taking products from single‑campus or single‑country launches to multi‑campus and multi‑country scale while mentoring engineers and delivering production systems.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Contracted to Anthropic via Turing to research, review, and annotate Claude Code/Claude Sonnet models and build review/annotation tools, improving model quality for JavaScript/TypeScript and Python coding tasks.
Senior Full-stack Engineer
Detken Development
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025 (1 year 1 month)
Delivered private client projects including a moving CRM marketplace and niche social network, contributing full‑stack features and tooling across React, Node.js, and containerized deployments.
Tech Lead
Bento Africa
Oct 2021 - Dec 2023 (2 years 2 months)
Led the Pay team, managing 10 engineers and scaling payroll/payment operations from 1 to 4 countries while supporting major clients like Paystack and Flutterwave.
Full Stack Engineer
Digital Pulse Technologies
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021 (2 years 1 month)
Developed high-scale public projects including a JAMB USSD result checker serving 500k+ students and an NIMC NIN USSD checker/platform used by over 1M users.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Federal University of Technology, Minna
Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology
2015 - 2021
Completed a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology with coursework and projects related to software development and systems integration.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
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