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The best channel for backend engineering opportunities, consulting engagements, partnerships, and professional conversations.
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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.
Whether you're hiring, building, investing, or exploring collaboration, I'd be glad to hear from you.
Primary Channel
The best channel for backend engineering opportunities, consulting engagements, partnerships, and professional conversations.
ikwukao@proton.meEngineering Work
Explore backend systems, distributed-systems work, infrastructure, developer tooling, experiments, and technical documentation.
github.com/ikwukaoCurrently open to opportunities
Backend Engineering · Distributed Systems · Platform Engineering · Cloud Infrastructure
I'm most interested in teams building reliable systems, scalable infrastructure, and products where strong engineering fundamentals matter.
Engineering Focus
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
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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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.
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