EIevanson igiri
@evansonigiri
Senior full-stack and AI engineer building reliable, high-throughput distributed systems.
NigeriaWhat I'm looking for
I am a Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer with eight years building high-throughput systems across FinTech, SaaS, and eCommerce, specialising in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and AI-powered platforms. I have owned complex technical initiatives—modernising systems, delivering production-grade AI integrations, and architecting real-time data pipelines that process 100K+ events/day with sub-100ms latency.
My achievements include designing secure crypto transaction flows, implementing comprehensive observability stacks that reduced MTTD from 45 minutes to under 5 minutes, and leading teams to improve onboarding and productivity through developer tooling and LLM-driven automation. I am passionate about reliability, system design, scaling platforms, and mentoring engineers to deliver resilient production systems used by thousands of users.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Software Engineer
Chipcolate
Jun 2025 - Present (6 months)
Architected a real-time trading pipeline (Debezium → NATS JetStream → DuckDB) processing 100K+ events/day with sub-100ms latency, reducing data sync time by 75% and enabling live analytics for trading agents; delivered React dashboard and production microservices achieving 99.95% uptime and handling 50K+ daily transactions.
COLed an 8-person DevTooling team building internal platforms that reduced customer onboarding time by 20% and increased engineering productivity by 15%; delivered an AI-powered onboarding Foundry and championed observability across 40+ microservices, reducing MTTR by 40%.
Senior Software Engineer
Yoco Technologies
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022 (11 months)
Stabilised lending backend (Node.js/Scala/PostgreSQL), resolving race conditions and improving transaction isolation to reduce loan processing failures by 60% and increase product profitability by 10%; led a tech debt effort raising test coverage from 40% to 75%.
Software Engineer
Dado Agency
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021 (8 months)
Built client websites and e-commerce platforms (React, Gatsby, Shopify), improving page load times by 50% and increasing conversion rates by 15% through performance optimizations and reusable component libraries.
Freelance Developer
Freelance
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021 (3 years 6 months)
Delivered full-stack web applications and custom CMS/e-commerce integrations for SMEs, focusing on production-ready deployments and client-specific feature delivery.
Software Developer
Upland Software
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020 (5 months)
Delivered UI and API features for a marketing campaign management platform, improving team productivity by 35% and introducing automated testing and CI/CD practices that reduced deployment time by 40%.
ANBuilt a travel request management system using React and Node.js with TDD, and implemented a CI/CD pipeline that reduced deployment time from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
MIMicroverse
Certificate, Full Stack Web Development
2020 - 2020
Activities and societies: Completed over 1300 hours of coursework and project work; practiced remote collaboration and pair programming.
Completed an intensive full-time Full Stack Web Development program focused on Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, React, and remote collaboration through pair programming and international team projects.
UHUniversity of Port Harcourt
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics/Statistics
2011 - 2016
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics/Statistics providing foundational knowledge in mathematical methods and statistical analysis.
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Software and tools used professionally
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