Software & Infrastructure Engineer

Engineering systems
with exact precision.

I'm Gideon. Most engineers stop at the interface or the infrastructure, I build both, and make sure the seam between them doesn't break under real traffic.

5+Years shipping

3xFaster API latency

75%Less deploy time

5,000+Weekly reports

//Trusted by teams at

IRPaySmooovCitizens CommonIcandoMoversEvoOcta

chinaza — smooov-marketplace

Explorer

app

components

lib

booking.ts

maps.tsx

README.md

booking.ts

maps.tsx

1import { Hono } from 'hono'
2import { db } from '@/lib/db'
3 
4// match a mover to a booking request
5export async function matchMover(req) {
6  const movers = await db.mover.findMany({
7    where: { available: true, radiusKm: { lte: 15 } },
8    orderBy: { rating: 'desc' } },
9  })
10  return rankByProximity(movers, req.origin)
11}

Review

Add geospatial index on mover.location — cuts match query from 240ms to 18ms.

18msindexed

HonoPrismaPostGIS

//About me

I build things end to end, and contribute on every layer.

Over the past 7 years, I've worked across fintech, SaaS, NGO tech, and product startups, with a consistent focus on systems that are fast, maintainable, and built to scale. At IRPay I designed payment infrastructure handling high-throughput operations; today I lead engineering on a Canadian SaaS marketplace where there's no part of the product I don't touch.

I care about clean architecture, developer experience, and shipping things that actually work.

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Chinaza Gideon

Software & Infrastructure Engineer

//What I do

One engineer. Every layer of the stack.

Full-stack development

Build frontend and backend seamlessly, from strong typed scripting to APIs and the database queries beneath them.

fullstack.ts

c// Next.js route — type-safe end to end
pexport async function GET(req: Request) {
p  const products = await db.product.findMany({
p    orderBy: { createdAt: 'desc' },
p    take: 20,
p  })
p  return Response.json(products)
p}

//Selected work

I love engineering solutions.

Smooov - Marketplace

Lead engineerDevelopment

A two-sided marketplace connecting users with local helpers for moving, packing and heavy lifting.

Next.jsTypeScriptMicroservicePostgreSQLGoogle Maps

IRPay - Fintech

Full-stack engineerLive

Everything you need to move money seamlessly From everyday transfers to business collections, IRPay provides the tools you need to move money quickly, securely, and reliably.

MicroserviceKubernetesKafkaVault

IcandoMovers

Wix headless integrationLive

A relocation booking service with a headless Wix backend and a custom Next.js front end.

Next.jsReactWixGoogle Maps

Connect

Connect Hire

Independent project

Connect Hire is a Django REST API backend for a job portal, JWT auth with MFA, proficiency-weighted skill matching, PostgreSQL full-text search with Redis caching, and an event-driven activity feed built on GenericForeignKey relations and Redis sorted-set pagination.

DjangoPostgreSQLRedisCeleryGitHub Actions

Clara

Independent projectDevelopment

Clara ingests your Stripe payouts, internal ledgers, and supplier records—matching what works, and giving you audited AI explanations for what doesn't.

TypeScriptPythonFastApiFastifyAi ReasoningPostgreSQL

//Experience

A track record of shipping.

Architected Smooov’s marketplace payment infrastructure via Stripe Connect, automating platform fee collection and vendor onboarding with compliant escrow payouts.
Engineered a double-entry ledger module utilizing integer minor-unit arithmetic and idempotency keys to ensure financial data integrity and decouple logic from specific processors
Engineered a webhook message stream for real-time chat updates, utilizing Echo Pusher on a detached Next.js app to listen to the stream on the client-side.

LaravelReactNext.jsDevOpsStripe Connect

Architected a PCI-DSS-compliant modular monolith backend with multi-layer caching, improving response times 3x.
Orchestrated Kubernetes-based CI/CD pipelines for Dockerized services, slashing deployment cycles by 75% and achieving zero-downtime releases.
Built a real-time CDC pipeline with Debezium and Kafka (PostgreSQL streams to MongoDB) for near-instant administrative insights.

LaravelKubernetesKafkaVaultCode ReviewAgile Development

Launched a civic reporting platform supporting 5,000+ weekly submissions, featuring end-to-end encryption for sensitive police misconduct data
Implemented a centralized logging and execution tracking system, reducing production bug investigation time by 50%.

ReactNode.jsPostgreSQL

Engineering systems
with exact precision.

I build things end to end, and contribute on every layer.