Projects on Ikwuka Okoye

Flux-Gateway

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

Flux-Gateway is a high-performance API Gateway and Reverse Proxy built in Go from scratch to safeguard downstream microservices from traffic spikes and cascading network partitions.

Engineering Highlights

Engineered an in-memory, thread-safe Circuit Breaker using Go sync.RWMutex primitives.
Reduced failed-request latency from a 2000ms TCP connection timeout to less than 0.4 milliseconds through automated fail-fast edge boundaries.
Built a low-latency traffic-policing tier using atomic Redis Lua script execution to prevent race conditions across multi-node scaling contexts.
Validated the traffic-policing layer under a simulated load of 14,200 requests per second.
Integrated concurrent background health probers using context.Context timeout handles to actively evaluate upstream cluster degradation.
Implemented automated circuit-state transitions based on upstream health.
Added a decoupled telemetry interface at :8090/metrics.
Exported Prometheus RED metrics for application observability and p95/p99 latency analysis.
Practiced table-driven TDD alongside the native Go race detector.
Used Miniredis in-memory mocks for deterministic Redis testing.
Established a GitHub Actions quality gate requiring a minimum of 70% code coverage.

Engineering Focus

Reliability · Concurrency · Fault Tolerance · Traffic Control · Observability · Testing

Platform-Infra

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

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

Engineering Highlights

Authored declarative Terraform configurations for local Kubernetes infrastructure.
Partitioned Kubernetes workloads into isolated flux-ingress and strata-analytics namespaces.
Deployed managed stateful caching nodes through infrastructure configuration.
Designed Kubernetes ConfigMaps to separate environment parameters from deployment code.
Injected operational parameters such as worker-pool bounds and buffer sizes through dynamic container environments.
Built a unified CLI task-runner workflow using Makefile targets and automated Bash scripts.
Coordinated cross-compilation and multi-stage Docker builds.
Used scratch base images to minimize final container image size.
Targeted final transit images below 20MB.
Designed deployment workflows targeting rollouts under 25 seconds.

Engineering Focus

Infrastructure as Code · Kubernetes · Terraform · Containers · Automation · Platform Engineering

Strata-Log

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

Strata-Log is an ultra-high-throughput distributed log aggregation engine in Go designed to safely process thousands of concurrent log streams over raw TCP network sockets.

Engineering Highlights

Designed a zero-allocation byte-buffer recycling tier using a custom sync.Pool wrapper.
Achieved an optimal 0 allocs/op performance footprint in heap benchmarks.
Reduced garbage-collection pressure and eliminated allocation-driven latency spikes.
Built a context-aware fixed worker-pool architecture using channels.
Decoupled low-level Linux TCP socket connections from slower disk input/output operations.
Protected system memory ceilings during bursts reaching 165,000 log lines per second.
Developed an asynchronous buffered storage manager using a 256KB in-memory page buffer.
Used bufio.Writer to batch sequential writes to disk.
Added background synchronization timers to balance write batching with data durability.
Implemented connection-handling loops using kernel-level SetReadDeadline controls.
Coordinated graceful shutdown with sync.WaitGroup.
Designed shutdown paths to avoid zombie threads and guarantee buffered data flushes.

Engineering Focus

High Throughput · Memory Efficiency · Concurrency · TCP Networking · Buffered I/O · Graceful Shutdown

IkwukaoDotDev

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A custom engineering portfolio focused on communicating technical work, engineering direction, and systems-building experience.

PokedexCLI

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A Go-based CLI project exploring API integration, caching, stateful commands, and clean backend-oriented application structure.

Asteroids

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

Asteroids is a classic arcade-style space shooter rebuilt from the ground up in Python using Pygame.

The project focuses on the fundamentals behind interactive 2D applications: managing a real-time game loop, responding to user input, updating object state, detecting collisions, and rendering a constantly changing scene at a consistent frame rate.

Rather than relying on a game engine to handle the underlying mechanics, the project provides a practical exercise in understanding how those systems fit together.

Static Site Generator

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A Python static-site generator exploring parsing, AST-like structures, Markdown transformation, HTML generation, and clean software architecture.

BookBot

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A Python CLI project focused on file processing, text analysis, dictionaries, iteration, and clean command-line application structure.

OpsPilot

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A DevOps-focused engineering platform exploring automation, CLI design, container workflows, and cloud-native operations.

AI Agent

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

AI Coding Agent is a command-line developer tool built to explore how modern AI agents can reason about software projects and assist with real-world engineering workflows.

The project focuses on the practical foundations of an AI-powered coding assistant: understanding a repository, processing developer instructions, reasoning about available context, and producing useful actions or code changes.

Rather than treating an LLM as a simple text-generation interface, the project explores the architecture required to turn language models into practical software-engineering agents.