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Okey Onyia

Okey Onyia

Celina,TX

Summary

Experienced software engineer with strong technical expertise in software development, project management skills in Agile, Scrum, and Jira, and a passion for user experience design. Led cross-functional teams to deliver successful projects, providing technical guidance and expertise. Looking for a technical project management position to bring my skills and experience to a new challenge.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Founding Engineer

Cupola Software
07.2022 - Current


  • Co-founded a startup as a founding engineer, leading the development of a new product from ideation to launch, resulting in a successful beta launch and positive user feedback.
  • Managed a small team of developers, using Figma to create and iterate on wireframes, prototypes, and final designs.
  • Developed and implemented a technical roadmap, ensuring that the product was scalable and met industry standards, resulting in a streamlined development process and reduced technical debt.
  • Worked closely with the marketing and sales teams to ensure that the product was effectively positioned in the market, resulting in a growing user base and increased brand awareness.
  • Managed project timelines, budgets, and resources, ensuring that the project was delivered on-time and within budget.
  • Conducted user testing and research to validate design decisions and identify areas for improvement, resulting in a more user-friendly product.
  • Used Figma to create and maintain design systems and style guides, ensuring consistency and scalability across the product.
  • Facilitated design critiques and collaboration sessions, encouraging open communication and feedback among team members.
  • Acted as a technical advisor to the team, providing guidance and expertise on technical issues and decisions related to the product development process.
  • Evaluated project outcomes and identified areas for improvement in future projects, resulting in a more efficient and effective development process.

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Anelto INC
04.2021 - 07.2022
  • Led a team of full stack developers in a healthcare company, working on a range of projects, from patient-facing applications to internal tools for healthcare providers.
  • Architected and developed full stack applications using a variety of technologies, including React, Node.js, MongoDB, and HIPAA-compliant cloud services.
  • Worked closely with healthcare professionals, product managers, and stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications that met HIPAA and other healthcare regulations.
  • Created and maintained technical documentation, including architectural diagrams and code documentation, to ensure the security, scalability, and maintainability of the product.
  • Conducted code reviews and provided technical guidance to team members, ensuring high-quality code and adherence to best practices while also maintaining HIPAA compliance.
  • Managed project timelines, budgets, and resources, ensuring that projects were delivered on-time and within budget, while also following healthcare regulations.
  • Implemented Agile methodologies and utilized project management tools, such as Jira and Trello, to track project progress and communicate with the team.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams, such as UX/UI designers and QA engineers, to ensure that all project deliverables were aligned with business goals and met high-quality standards, while also meeting healthcare regulations.
  • Acted as a technical advisor to the team, providing guidance and expertise on technical issues and decisions related to full stack development in a healthcare context.
  • Evaluated project outcomes and identified areas for improvement in future projects, such as optimizing development processes, implementing additional security measures, or adopting new technologies that meet healthcare regulations.

Full Stack Engineer

LIVEINTENT INC
06.2019 - 03.2021
  • Integral part of team to design, build and deliver core business platform used by 100% of company's clients
  • Enhanced existing API on Query layer to handle concurrent requests
  • This allowed regression tests to run in parallel, reducing execution time by 80%
  • Collaborated on all stages of software development lifecycle, from requirement gathering to production releases
  • Participated in code reviews
  • Peer programmed with other engineers to troubleshoot core services that affect other components of system
  • Refactored existing angular frontend application to lazy-load modules which increased page loading time by 27%
  • Contributed in breaking out monolithic application into distributed applications
  • Refactored existing test suite within core platform application to use factories in creating new entities thereby improving test suite execution time by 62%
  • Leveraging Go, Git, Docker, k3d and aws local sack, Built local app manager that composes company's services into one local service for onboarding new developers.

Full Stack Engineer

Lendrship
01.2017 - 06.2018
  • Built Real-Time location based Single Page Application using
  • React.js, Node and socket.io
  • Managed SPA application data with Redux across react components
  • Managed user authentication, validation and authorization using firebase
  • Developed back-end microservices using Node, Golang and rethinkDB
  • Built automated test suites for integration and regression testing and continuous integration using Docker and CircleCi
  • Configured and managed Digital Ocean VPS for production

Tutor

New York Institute Of Technology - NY New York
01.2018 - 05.2018
  • Conducted tutorials for Operating Systems Class focus on topics like, memory virtualization, CPU scheduling algorithms, process communication and concurrency
  • Helped over 35 student with their projects and assignments
  • Prepared student for Operating System exams

Web Developer Intern

CITIMAPS
01.2014 - 08.2014
  • Designed and built REST API leveraging PHP(Cake PHP framework) and Mysql for CRUD operations on costumers' ads
  • Worked closely with front-end developers to provide new endpoints to communicate with API
  • Participated in code reviews

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, NY
12.2020

Bachelor of Science - Computer and Electrical Engineering

Enugu State University of Science And Technology
Lagos, Nigeria
05.2011

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - Computer Science

National Institute For Information Technology
Lagos, Nigeria
02.2008

Skills

  • Node / Express / NestJs
  • Go / PHP / Typescript
  • HTML / CSS
  • React / Nextjs / Material UI
  • Git / Docker / Github Actions
  • AWS / Google Cloud Platform / Kubernetes
  • MongoDB / Postgresql / MySQL
  • API design and development
  • Domain Driven Design
  • Command Query Responsibility Segregation
  • Object Oriented Design Patterns
  • Functional Programming Patterns

Timeline

Lead Founding Engineer

Cupola Software
07.2022 - Current

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Anelto INC
04.2021 - 07.2022

Full Stack Engineer

LIVEINTENT INC
06.2019 - 03.2021

Tutor

New York Institute Of Technology - NY New York
01.2018 - 05.2018

Full Stack Engineer

Lendrship
01.2017 - 06.2018

Web Developer Intern

CITIMAPS
01.2014 - 08.2014

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

New York Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science - Computer and Electrical Engineering

Enugu State University of Science And Technology

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - Computer Science

National Institute For Information Technology
Okey Onyia