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Joakim Bwire

@joakimbwire

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Backend Engineer at Stawi, who accelerated real-time payment updates by 25% with an event-driven system.

Kenya

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At Stawi, I developed an event-driven payment system using NATS that accelerated real-time transaction updates by 25%. I also improved data retrieval speed by 15% through secure RESTful and gRPC APIs.

At vLex, I engineered an adaptive crawling strategy that reduced detection rates by 60% and enabled collection of 5TB of unstructured data. I also optimized distributed crawlers and integrated proxy management and CAPTCHA-solving services.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Backend Engineer

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Stawi

Mar 2024 - Present (2 years 7 months)

Accelerated real-time transaction updates by 25% through an event-driven payment system using Nats messaging. Improved data retrieval speed by 15% with RESTful and gRPC APIs, and optimized CI/CD pipelines with Docker and Kubernetes.

NATS REST APIs gRPC Docker Kubernetes CI CD Python Go NodeJS

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Senior Data Acquisition Engineer

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vLex

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 9 months)

Engineered an adaptive crawling strategy reducing detection rates by 60% and enabling collection of 5TB of unstructured data. Managed distributed web crawlers, reducing processing time by 25% and achieving 99.9% uptime for large-scale data extraction.

Web Crawling Distributed Systems IP Rotation Proxy Management Captcha Solving Data Extraction Python Go