Daniel Okafor
Austin, TX · daniel.okafor@example.com · github.com/dokafor-example
SUMMARY
Backend engineer with 5 years building payment and data services in Go and Python. Cut checkout latency by 45% and cloud spend by $180K a year on services handling 3 million requests a day.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: Go, Python, SQL, TypeScript · Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS), Terraform, Docker · Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka · Practices: observability (Datadog), CI/CD, on call
EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer II | Brightpath Payments | Austin, TX | Jan 2022 – Present
- Rebuilt the checkout pricing service in Go, cutting p95 latency from 420 ms to 230 ms for 3 million requests a day
- Moved 6 batch jobs from always on servers to AWS Lambda, saving $180K a year with no missed runs
- Led the move to Kafka for order events across 4 teams, ending the nightly reconciliation job and its 2 hour delay
- Lowered pages for my team's services from 14 to 4 a month by adding SLO alerts and fixing the top 5 failure causes
Software Engineer | Cedarline Analytics | Dallas, TX | Jul 2019 – Dec 2021
- Built a Python ingestion pipeline for 40 retail clients' sales data, cutting onboarding time from 3 weeks to 4 days
- Raised test coverage on the reporting API from 38% to 81% and cut production bugs by half in 2 quarters
PROJECTS
ratewatch (open source) | Go rate limiting library with 900 GitHub stars
EDUCATION
BS in Computer Science | University of North Texas | 2019