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ikwukao

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Whether you're hiring for a backend engineering role, discussing a distributed systems project, or exploring collaboration, I'd be glad to hear from you.

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Whether you're hiring, building, investing, or exploring collaboration, I'd be glad to hear from you.

Primary Channel

Email

The best channel for backend engineering opportunities, consulting engagements, partnerships, and professional conversations.

ikwukao@proton.me

Engineering Work

GitHub

Explore backend systems, distributed-systems work, infrastructure, developer tooling, experiments, and technical documentation.

github.com/ikwukao

Currently open to opportunities

Backend Engineering · Distributed Systems · Platform Engineering · Cloud Infrastructure

Available

Where I Can Contribute

I'm most interested in teams building reliable systems, scalable infrastructure, and products where strong engineering fundamentals matter.

Engineering Focus

Systems worth building

Backend Engineering

Reliable APIs, services, data flows, and backend architecture.

Distributed Systems

Concurrent systems, fault tolerance, scalability, and performance.

Platform Engineering

Developer platforms, infrastructure automation, and internal tooling.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Cloud-native systems, containers, orchestration, and operational reliability.

Team & Product Fit

Environments where I thrive

Remote-first teams

Distributed teams that value clear communication and ownership.

Product-focused engineering

Teams solving meaningful problems through thoughtful engineering.

High-scale platforms

Systems where reliability, performance, and scale are first-class concerns.

Open engineering culture

Environments that encourage learning, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Remote-first · Full-time · GMT+1 with flexible overlap

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Have an interesting engineering problem?

Whether you're building a backend platform, scaling distributed systems, or solving a difficult infrastructure problem, I'd be glad to hear what you're working on.

ikwukao

Backend • Distributed Systems • Platform Engineering

I design and build reliable backend systems, distributed platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and developer tooling with Go, Python, Linux, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices.

Building reliable systems from Nigeria · GMT+1

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