Delaney Sylvans

Guided aspiring and early-career software engineers through 70+ sessions, delivering 3,000+ minutes of insights on software development principles, system design, career progression, and technical problem-solving.

Designed and implemented new platform features based on user needs to improve the Oceanis user experience. Improved ship valuation model accuracy while reducing computation time, and raised app uptime to 99% by increasing test coverage and adding bug/error monitoring and reporting.

Designed and built a cloud-agnostic storage driver enabling multi-tenant online stores to manage media assets. Improved provider integration process time by 70% and led weekly Fix-it code review sessions to maintain code quality and standards.

Maintained 60+ AWS Lambda image transformation functions and built a data transfer/processing pipeline with a dashboard for an external e-commerce affiliate campaign, supporting high sales commissions. Refactored queries and request/response flows to reduce load times for admin and user dashboard pages by ~40%.

Built core v2 delivery system features from scratch, improving operational efficiency by 40% and reducing feature delivery time by 98%. Developed fraud detection and payment reconciliation algorithms to reduce rider fraud cases and cut transaction errors by ~95%, and exposed the service via a public REST API and developer dashboard used for 8%+ of 2021 orders.

Built an accounting and data reporting dashboard for a client and created reusable UI components to accelerate enterprise accounting development by 40%+.

Earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Lagos.