Joseph Ibochi

Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack Development & System Architecture

Abuja, NG.

About

Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience architecting, building, and maintaining high-throughput production systems across fintech, payments, and consumer platforms. Proven leader in full-lifecycle system architecture, having engineered a central government revenue system processing ₦5-10B daily across 4 portals and founded end-to-end applications serving thousands of users. Highly skilled in Python, FastAPI, Node.js, Next.js, Flutter, and cloud-native infrastructure, with a focus on fault tolerance, automated CI/CD, and high-concurrency performance.

Work

Morfit

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Founding Engineer & Sole Developer

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

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Summary

Architected and delivered a full-scale nutrition and fitness platform for the Nigerian market from scratch, owning all engineering, infrastructure, and product technical decisions solo.

Highlights

Architected and implemented complete end-to-end ecosystem comprising a FastAPI backend (62k+ LOC across 145 modules and 47 API resource groups), a modular Flutter mobile client (75k+ LOC across 19 feature modules), and two Next.js web frontends powered by PostgreSQL, Redis, and Celery.

Established zero-downtime infrastructure on DigitalOcean utilizing Docker, Nginx reverse proxying, Cloudflare edge caching, and automated GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines executing rigorous testing, linting, and staged canary deployments.

Engineered a computer-vision food recognition pipeline featuring multi-provider fallback chains, a localized classifier failsafe, and an evaluation harness continuously benchmarking accuracy, latency, and cost before deployment.

Designed and populated an extensible relational nutrition database containing 502 dietitian-verified Nigerian food macro profiles and 2,000+ categorized exercises structured for zero-schema-change regional expansion.

Bypassed mobile app-store billing constraints by designing an automated checkout rerouting system with flexible dynamic subscription pricing configurations, eliminating backend release dependencies.

Implemented comprehensive security and data governance standards directly, ensuring end-to-end alignment with NDPR and GDPR requirements through automated consent tracking, account deletion, and data export pipelines.

FacilityBills

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Backend Engineer

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

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Summary

Spearheaded backend architecture for property payment collections, lending services, and automated utility management integrations.

Highlights

Architected a provider-agnostic virtual account system decoupling banking integrations from downstream payment workflows, expanding partner integration speed and boosting collection success rates.

Engineered an automated credit scoring and lending product featuring automated overdue detection jobs managed via Celery task queues and configurable risk limit workflows.

Integrated and maintained mission-critical third-party VAS APIs for airtime, electricity, TV, and data disbursements with resilient OAuth token refresh logic, automated retries, and hardware metering protocols with Hexing.

Integrated in-app VoIP/SIP calling capabilities leveraging NativeTalk SDK to enable real-time resident customer support, maintaining 99.9% operational uptime across all assigned services.

Coinsher Exchange

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Frontend Engineer

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

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Summary

Led frontend web architecture across high-frequency cryptocurrency trading, peer-to-peer exchange, and digital wallet products.

Highlights

Owned core frontend architecture across 64 pages and 500+ modular, reusable React/TypeScript components serving both public landing flows and authenticated financial operations.

Constructed high-concurrency spot trading user interfaces incorporating real-time order books, dynamic charting interfaces, and instant order execution workflows.

Engineered a secure P2P trading marketplace with automated escrow, merchant onboarding verifications, multi-currency wallet management, and real-time trade notifications.

Optimized web application performance via aggressive code-splitting, smart caching, and strict static typing, substantially reducing initial page load times and eliminating regression errors in production.

Z1 Technologies

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Fullstack Lead

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

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Summary

Promoted to lead the technical design, engineering team, and deployment of mission-critical fintech and government revenue infrastructure.

Highlights

Promoted to Fullstack Lead to architect the Centralized Revenue System, a sovereign government platform processing ₦5-10B daily revenue at 30+ TPS across 16 user roles and 4 dedicated portals.

Engineered multi-channel payment collection pipelines supporting API, POS, USSD, direct bank transfer, and Remita with 99.9% uptime, deploying circuit-breaker failover strategies and multi-provider abstraction with 85%+ integration test coverage.

Built a high-performance Turborepo monorepo encompassing 5 distinct stakeholder portals with 35+ real-time analytical dashboards, cutting enterprise build times by 60% through aggressive caching and pipeline parallelisation.

Constructed secure multi-tenant access control from the ground up utilizing HttpOnly JWT token rotation and 16-tier RBAC, establishing total data isolation across ministries and agencies.

Delivered a multi-vendor e-commerce platform incorporating automated commission splits, logistics integrations, and an automated fraud-resistant order verification engine that sharply decreased merchant chargebacks.

Hausek

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Product Builder / Backend Engineer

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

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Summary

Designed and deployed a specialized real-estate roommate discovery platform engineered for high performance in emerging markets.

Highlights

Architected and deployed a roommate-matching engine from scratch, utilizing lifestyle vector clustering and similarity scoring algorithms to significantly improve compatibility and match rates.

Implemented robust OTP phone verification and end-to-end encrypted messaging systems to safeguard peer-to-peer user communications before physical meetings.

Optimized backend payload serialization and client synchronization mechanisms to maintain consistent, responsive real-time chat experiences across low-bandwidth and high-latency mobile networks.

Education

University of Uyo

Uyo, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria
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Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering Grade:

Courses

Data Structures & Algorithms

Software Engineering Principles

Computer Architecture

Database Management Systems

Object-Oriented Programming

Computer Networks & Distributed Systems

Awards

Finalist, Backend Developer Track

HNG Internship 9

Selected as a top-performing finalist out of thousands of software developers across Africa after delivering high-intensity, production-grade backend projects under rigorous agile evaluations.

Languages

English

Certificates

Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification (Credential DHCVV9QKVKAB)

DeepLearning.AI / Stanford University

Skills

Backend Development

Python, FastAPI, Django, Node.js, C#, .NET, ASP.NET, SQLAlchemy 2.0, Pydantic v2, Celery, REST API Design, Clean Architecture, Microservices.

Frontend & Mobile

React, Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, Flutter, Dart, Tailwind CSS, Riverpod, GoRouter, Bootstrap.

Databases & Caching

PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, MongoDB, Alembic, Schema Design, Query Optimization, Data Modeling.

DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD, DigitalOcean, Nginx, Cloudflare, Turborepo Monorepos, Git Workflows, System Monitoring.

Security & Architecture

HttpOnly JWT, Token Refresh, OAuth 2.0, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Payment Gateway Integration, NDPR Compliance, GDPR Compliance, Circuit Breaker Pattern.

Testing & QA

Pytest, Jest, React Testing Library, Postman, xUnit, NUnit, Integration Testing.

Applied AI & Machine Learning

Hybrid LLM Pipelines, Computer Vision, Fallback Chains, Evaluation Harnesses, EfficientNet Model Training, Windsurf, Claude Code.

Projects

Morfit Health & Nutrition Engine

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Summary

Full-stack mobile and web fitness platform customized for Nigerian demographics with AI-driven meal analysis.

Centralized Revenue System (Z1 Technologies)

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Summary

Enterprise-grade government financial settlement and multi-channel revenue collections system.