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Nnaemezie Okeke

@nnaemezieokeke

Software Engineer at Branch International building resilient payment systems and high-throughput backend infrastructure.

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At Branch International, I build Python payment integrations and a FastAPI routing service that switches between payment gateways when failures occur. I also re-engineered the payments framework with Celery background jobs and transaction event tracking.

At Search Atlas, I re-architected Celery task queues for a Django microservice handling 1.9M+ daily requests. The work eliminated recurring 65K-task backlogs and cut user-facing p90 latency by 96%, from 225 seconds to under 10.

I’ve also hardened an LLM-powered recommendation service against prompt injection across a multi-provider failover chain, and improved production observability with OpenTelemetry tracing. Earlier, I delivered payment-enabled web platforms for Upwork clients, from REST APIs through deployment.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Branch International logoBI
Current

Software Engineer

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 10 months)

Built Python REST/microservice payment integrations with third-party providers, engineered a dynamic FastAPI routing service for live gateway switching, and re-engineered the core payments framework with Celery background jobs and real-time event tracking. Delivered a Django-based analytics dashboard and owned frontend delivery in React/Redux for customer-facing transfer flows.

PwC logoPW

Software Engineer

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 (11 months)

Built a Rails-based wallet management system, designed a central authentication service using Devise with JWT and role-based access control, architected PostgreSQL schemas via Django ORM, and resolved performance bottlenecks with Redis caching and algorithmic optimization.

SA

Software Engineer

Search Atlas

Oct 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 2 months)

Re-architected Celery task infrastructure for a high-throughput Django microservice, built a real-time deduplication gate, hardened LLM-powered recommendation service against prompt injection, cut CI/CD pipeline time by 60%, led a security hardening audit, resolved a production data-integrity defect, rebuilt a customer-facing backlinks CSV export, instrumented distributed tracing with OpenTelemetr

Upwork logoUP

FullStack Web Developer

Oct 2019 - Sep 2020 (11 months)

Independent full-stack contracting for e-commerce and small-business clients, delivering payment-enabled web platforms end to end. Built e-commerce platforms with product management and hardened checkout and payment flows, designed flexible payment processing across multiple providers, and established unit, integration, and system testing on client projects.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Nnamdi Azikiwe University logoNU

Nnamdi Azikiwe University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, completed in 2018.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation logoCF

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA), Kubernetes and Cloud Native

Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certification from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Udacity logoUD

Udacity

Nanodegree, Full Stack Development

Full Stack Nanodegree from Udacity.

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