Ibrahim Akanmu

– Designed and developed backend services for a multi-tenant activity and event booking platform using Django and Django REST Framework. – Built and optimized RESTful APIs supporting core features such as event creation, activity discovery, booking workflows, and organizer management. – Implemented role-based access control (RBAC) for users and organizers, ensuring secure and structured access across the platform. – Contributed to payment processing backend logic, integrating third-party payment systems and handling transaction validation flows. – Refactored and improved existing backend architecture for better scalability, modularity, and maintainability. – Optimized database queries and schema design using PostgreSQL, improving performance for high-frequency booking and listing operations. – Collaborated closely with frontend and product teams to align API structure with mobile application requirements. – Implemented background processes and asynchronous workflows for notifications, booking updates, and system tasks. – Ensured production readiness through structured error handling, logging, and performance optimization.

– Designed and deployed high-performance RESTful APIs using Django & DRF, powering core services for digital insurance and fintech products – Optimized PostgreSQL queries and indexing strategies, improving data retrieval performance and ensuring system scalability under production load – Built secure authentication and authorization systems, including API versioning and robust data serialization layers – Integrated third-party insurance APIs and internal microservices, streamlining policy management, claims processing, and underwriting workflows – Collaborated with DevOps to automate CI/CD pipelines and maintain reliable, low-latency production environments – Diagnosed and resolved performance bottlenecks across distributed systems using profiling and monitoring tools

– Enforced engineering best practices (testing, code quality, documentation), improving team velocity and system reliability – Owned and managed cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and DigitalOcean, ensuring high availability and zero-downtime deployments – Built automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and Bash, reducing manual deployment effort and minimizing production errors – Containerized services for consistent environments across staging and production, improving deployment reliability and speed – Implemented real-time observability using Datadog, enabling proactive issue detection through custom dashboards and alerting – Strengthened platform security by configuring Nginx reverse proxy, access controls, and firewall rules to reduce system vulnerabilities – Improved system uptime and operational stability through monitoring, capacity planning, and infrastructure optimization

– Built and maintained backend services using Node.js and Express, supporting scalable application features across multiple products – Designed and managed databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB) to handle structured and unstructured data efficiently – Improved API response times through query optimization and performance tuning – Supported CI/CD processes using Jenkins, enabling faster and more reliable releases – Maintained code quality through debugging, testing, and peer code reviews