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Tunmise Akinade
@tunmiseakinade
Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable, high-impact systems across fintech, government, and consumer tech.
What I'm looking for
Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable, high-impact systems across fintech, government, and consumer tech.
Led a team of 6 engineers that delivered Nigerian government technology projects serving 7+ million citizens. At Chowdeck, Nigeria's leading food delivery platform, architected products and features that helped scale the platform to 1 million+ registered users, and re-engineered core systems to enable expansion into other African countries. Collaborated with distributed engineering teams across the US and Kenya through Andela, delivering fintech and data visualization solutions for global markets.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Backend Engineer
Chowdeck
Jul 2024 - Sep 2025 (1 year 2 months)
Optimized Typesense secondary db, improving 1 million+ daily search accuracy; Developed Chowpass, a subscription feature that allows customers to get free benefits; Built cron jobs that run daily to debit subscribed customers; Developed Chowsmart, a one-click checkout feature, increasing daily average orders; Introduced i18n, timezone awareness, and multi-currency payment and wallet support;
Senior Software Engineer
Outsource Global Technologies
Jan 2020 - Jun 2024 (4 years 5 months)
Led a team of 6 engineers that delivered Nigerian government technology projects serving 7+ million citizens; Built a vehicle lifecycle management platform for over 1 million incoming vehicles to Nigeria; Implemented background jobs and Lambda functions, with AWS SQS and RabbitMQ as message brokers to create invoices and process payments for over 1 million beneficiaries monthly.
Integrated various APIs for merchant services, enhancing onboarding rates and logging capabilities. Developed unit and integration tests, and conducted code reviews.
Software Engineer
Lipalater
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022 (9 months)
Developed automated systems for loan repayments and deployed applications on AWS. Integrated banking APIs and enhanced customer repayment evaluations through web scraping.
Software Engineer Intern
Cloudware Technologies
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019 (7 months)
Designed a document approval flow application and an internal payment gateway, improving operational efficiency for a commercial bank.
Freelance Developer
Self Employed
Oct 2015 - Dec 2017 (2 years 2 months)
Developed various applications including mobile apps for the visually impaired and management systems for e-commerce and real estate.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Federal University of Technology, Akure
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science
2015 - 2019
Completed a Bachelor of Technology with Honors in Computer Science, focusing on software development, algorithms, and data structures. Engaged in various projects that enhanced practical skills in programming and system design.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Postman
Sidekiq
Splunk
Metabase
GitHub
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
Heroku CI
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MariaDB
DocuSign
Gmail
Node.js
Ruby on Rails
Redis
Jira
Mocha
Chai
React
JavaScript
HTML5
CSS 3
Ruby
XML
Apache JMeter
Google Maps
RabbitMQ
Grafana
Prometheus
Datadog
Heroku
GraphQL
Firebase
Elasticsearch
Typesense
AWS Lambda
Serverless
TypeScript
React Testing Library
Docker
s3-lambda
Redis Cloud
Airtable
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Salary expectations
Skills
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