Backend Engineering · Distributed Systems · Go
Go Backend Engineer building reliable systems at scale.
Backend engineer focused on distributed systems, backend architecture, platform engineering, and cloud-native infrastructure. I build software with an emphasis on reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational excellence.
The engineering disciplines and technologies I use to design, build, and operate reliable software systems.
Building reliable, maintainable backend services and APIs with Go, emphasizing concurrency, performance, clean architecture, and production-ready engineering practices.
Designing and understanding distributed software around reliability, concurrency, communication, fault tolerance, consistency, and scalable service architecture.
Building the infrastructure, automation, deployment workflows, and operational foundations required to run reliable software at scale.
Instrumenting and operating backend systems so performance, failures, and system behavior can be understood in production.
Working with relational, key-value, document, and embedded databases to support reliable application state and data-intensive services.
The development practices and tools I use to keep engineering work reproducible, testable, maintainable, and efficient.
Additional technologies that complement my primary Go backend and distributed-systems focus.
A focused selection of projects demonstrating backend engineering, distributed systems, platform engineering, and infrastructure capabilities.
Engineering 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.
Engineering Project
A master multi-project orchestration repository applying Infrastructure-as-Code principles to declaratively manage configurations and workloads for core Go services.
Engineering Project
An ultra-high-throughput distributed log aggregation engine in Go designed to safely process thousands of concurrent log streams over raw TCP sockets.
Experience, education, and professional development that shape how I approach engineering.
Olaedo Pharmacy
Enyi & AI Co. Ltd
Digital Brains ICT Academy
Chris Reliable Foods Ltd
University of the People
GPA 3.6 / 4.0
Boot.dev
CC
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) and AWS Certified Developer – Associate.
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I'm open to backend engineering, distributed systems, and platform engineering opportunities where thoughtful engineering can solve meaningful problems.
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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