Dela Ametepe
Senior Backend Engineer – API Architecture
Salary / Daily rate
Lomé, Togo
Freelance
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior backend engineer with 10+ years of experience building systems for HR, payroll, finance, and data. Expert in PHP/Symfony, Scala, and Go, API architecture, distributed data pipelines, legacy migrations. Independent contractor, I work remotely with international teams. I also write technical articles at log.delaa.dev, covering production incidents, migrations, and engineering practices.
Work experience
Independent Contractor
Independent Contractor
Jan 2016 - Present
10 years 10 months
Remote
– Building platforms (HR/payroll, technical e-learning, data engineering) across the full product lifecycle. – Designing hands-on curricula for senior engineers — distributed ledgers, modern JVM backends, infrastructure most courses don't cover. – Stack: PHP 8.5, Symfony 8, API Platform 4, Go, Next.js 16, React 19, PostgreSQL, Docker, Doppler
Senior Backend Engineer - Symfony
Freelance contract France
Sep 2024 - May 2026
1 year 9 months
Remote
– Modular backend platforms with secure REST APIs, OAuth2/JWT auth, and third-party integrations. – Stack: PHP 8.3+, Symfony 6.4/8, Sulu CMS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, GitLab CI, Bitbucket, Plane
Digital Management (DM)
Jan 2022 - Mar 2024
2 years 3 months
69340 Francheville, France
Web Technical Lead
May 2023 - Mar 2024
11 months
69340 Francheville, France
– Managed a development team working across WordPress and Laravel stacks. – Sprint coordination, code reviews, and multi-client project delivery. – Established CI/CD standards and team technical documentation practices. – Stack: WordPress, Laravel, GitLab CI, Plane
BigData Developer
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
2 years 1 month
69340 Francheville, France
– Distributed ETL pipelines processing terabytes of data daily. – Full-text search indexing and large-scale storage. – Team management, mentoring, and upskilling of colleagues. – Infrastructure management. – Stack: Scala, Apache Spark, Play Framework, Akka, Elasticsearch, Delta Lake, MinIO/S3, VMware
Senior Software Engineer
EVAME Group
Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
5 years 1 month
Lomé, Togo
– Designed and delivered HRPAIE, an HR/payroll system deployed on-premise. – End-to-end team leadership: planning, code standards, delivery across the full product lifecycle. – On-premise deployment on private intranet infrastructure, zero-downtime migrations. – Mentored and trained junior engineers on the team. – Stack: Zend Framework 1, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RHEL/CentOS
Co-founder & CTO
Efortis Inc.
Jan 2014 - Jan 2016
2 years 1 month
Lomé, Togo
– Co-founded the company. Had the role of CTO and hands-on developer. – Built web, e-commerce, and CRM solutions, including OpenERP/Odoo implementations. – Managed technical team and infrastructure delivery. – Stack: Joomla, WordPress, Zend Framework 1/2, PHP, PostgreSQL, OpenERP/Odoo
Web Developer
IPNET Institute of Technology
Jan 2012 - Jan 2013
1 year 1 month
Lomé, Togo
– Developed government client websites and an internal CRM. – Participated in website deployment. – Stack: Joomla, WordPress, Zend Framework 1, PHP, PostgreSQL
Education
UCAO
Bachelor's, Computer Science (Software Engineering)
Licenses & certifications
IBM DevOps and Software Engineering
Issued: –
Python for Data Science, AI & Development
Issued: –
Blockchain Essentials V2
Issued: Jan 2022
Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes & Istio
Issued: Jan 2022
Scrum Fundamentals Certificate (SFC)
Issued: Jan 2016
Portfolio
