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Ed Vela

@edvela

Senior Software Engineer at Estuary Business Solution, maintaining jollof.com and EBSPay and building production fintech features.

Nigeria

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At Estuary Business Solution, I lead the architecture and delivery of platform features for production fintech products, maintain systems powering jollof.com and EBSPay, and document audits and fixes on GitHub.

At Oluseun Consulting, I built EdVela, a school management platform, and designed, developed, and deployed a health management platform for students, medical staff, and administrators. I also delivered Rust training sessions to 50+ students and early-career engineers.

At Fermyon Technologies, I contributed to Spin releases by improving runtime and developer tooling, building an OpenAI SDK integration for multiple LLM providers, and implementing HTTP/2 streaming support.

At Unbox, I designed and built modular Rust backend services for high-volume transaction processing, automated verification workflows, and improved PostgreSQL transaction performance. My projects include PhisherMan, an AI email phishing detection system, and RiiMail, an open-source Rust desktop email client.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Developer

Current

Estuary Business Solution

Jul 2026 - Present (3 months)

Lead the architecture and delivery of platform features supporting production fintech products. Collaborate with frontend and backend developers, maintain production systems, and author technical specifications.

Rust TypeScript Python NestJS CI CD AWS PostgreSQL GitHub Distributed Systems REST APIs

Software Developer - OSS

Fermyon Technologies

Jul 2025 - Sep 2025 (2 months)

Contributed to Spin (v3.4.0, v3.5.0), improving runtime and developer tooling. Built OpenAI SDK integration supporting multiple LLM providers and implemented HTTP/2 streaming support.

Rust SPIN OpenAI SDK HTTP2 CLI Development Open Source

Senior Rust Developer

Unbox

Nov 2023 - Nov 2024 (1 year)

Designed and built modular backend services using Axum, Tokio, and PostgreSQL, supporting high-volume transaction processing. Integrated OpenTelemetry and SigNoz for tracing and improved Postgres transaction performance.

Rust Axum Tokio PostgreSQL OpenTelemetry SigNoz Distributed Systems

Lead, Rust Developer

HisFold

Dec 2022 - Jan 2024 (1 year 1 month)

Led backend development and technical architecture decisions using Actix, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Built real-time audio streaming services and the Android client with Java, introducing NATS messaging.

Rust Actix Redis PostgreSQL WebSockets AWS Kinesis Java NATS Docker DigitalOcean

Rust Developer

Supra Oracles

May 2021 - Aug 2022 (1 year 3 months)

Contributed to Layer 1 blockchain infrastructure (Testnet). Implemented BFT consensus components and data propagation via libp2p, and built an Oracle POC extracting ETH price data.

Rust Blockchain BFT Consensus Libp2p P2Pnetwork RocksDB Kafka

Rust Developer

Gridlock

Jan 2021 - Mar 2021 (2 months)

Developed multi-threaded Rust systems and cryptographic components. Contributed to distributed key generation (DKG).

Rust Cryptography Distributed Key Generation Multithreading

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Benin

Bachelor of Science, Banking and Finance

2011 - 2014

Pursued a Bachelor of Science in Banking and Finance at the University of Benin, Edo State, Nigeria, from March 2011 to December 2014.

Andela

AI Engineering Bootcamp, AI Engineering

Completed a 10-week intensive AI Engineering Bootcamp with hands-on training in production AI systems and enterprise use cases.

Ferrous Systems

Embedded Rust Training, Embedded Rust

Completed Embedded Rust Training, exploring hands-on implementation of the Real-Time Interrupt-driven Concurrency framework (RTIC) and embedded development.