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Backend Engineering • Distributed Systems • DevOps

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A collection of production-focused backend systems, distributed applications, cloud-native infrastructure, and developer tooling built to solve real engineering problems.

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Explore engineering projects covering backend development, distributed systems, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling.

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Flux-Gateway

Flagship Project

A high-performance, fault-tolerant API Gateway and Reverse Proxy engineered in Go to protect downstream microservices from traffic spikes and cascading network partitions.

Go Redis Docker Kubernetes Prometheus GitHub Actions
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Platform-Infra

Platform Engineering

A master multi-project orchestration repository applying Infrastructure-as-Code principles to declaratively manage configurations and workloads for core Go services.

Terraform Kubernetes Docker Bash Make Minikube K3s
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Strata-Log

Distributed Systems

An ultra-high-throughput distributed log aggregation engine in Go designed to safely process thousands of concurrent log streams over raw TCP sockets.

Go TCP sync.Pool Worker Pools bufio Linux

IkwukaoDotDev

Active

A production-minded personal engineering portfolio built with Hugo and Tailwind CSS to present backend systems, distributed-systems work, infrastructure projects, and technical writing.

Hugo Go Tailwind CSS HTML CSS JavaScript Git

PokedexCLI

Completed

A command-line Pokémon exploration tool built in Go that consumes a remote API while demonstrating state management, HTTP communication, caching, and modular CLI design.

Go REST API HTTP JSON CLI Caching Git

Asteroids

Completed

A classic arcade-style Asteroids game rebuilt in Python with Pygame, combining object-oriented design, real-time game-loop architecture, collision detection, and interactive 2D gameplay.

Python Object-Oriented Programming Pygame Game Loop Collision Detection 2D Game Development Event-Driven Programming

Static Site Generator

Completed

A Markdown-to-HTML static site generator built in Python that parses structured Markdown content and transforms it into complete HTML documents.

Python Markdown HTML Parsing Testing Git

BookBot

Completed

A Python command-line text analysis tool that processes books and produces structured statistics about their contents.

Python CLI Text Processing File I/O Git
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OpsPilot

Active

A cloud-native operations toolkit designed to simplify repetitive infrastructure workflows, improve developer productivity, and bring operational tasks into a structured command-line workflow.

Go Python Bash Docker Kubernetes Linux Git

AI Agent

Completed

A production-oriented AI coding assistant designed to understand codebases, reason about engineering tasks, and execute development workflows through modern agentic tooling.

Python AI LLMs LangGraph LangChain CLI Git

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I'm open to backend engineering, distributed systems, platform engineering, and cloud-native opportunities where thoughtful engineering can create meaningful impact.

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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