Biography
Jeffrey Efosa Okooboh is a skilled Software Engineer and a first-class graduate of Computer Engineering from the University of Benin. With 5+ years experience in building and scaling applications. He has worked with startups and established companies locally and internationally, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to solve complex business problems.
Beyond his technical expertise, he is passionate about mentoring young developers and guiding them toward successful careers in tech. As a church community leader, he also dedicates his time to spiritual leadership, teaching, and empowering individuals to reach their full potential in their personal lives.
Recently collaborated with a team to build Kayve, a new app in Denver, US, designed to fight male loneliness in the digital age.
Interests
- Software Engineering
- Blockchain technology
- Artificial intelligence
- Cloud Networking & Security
Education
- B.Eng Computer Engineering '22
- The University of Benin, Nigeria
- (Best Graduating Student Award Winner)
Skills
DevOps
AWS | Digital Ocean | Heroku
Typescript
Next.js | React native | Node.js
Python
Django
Databases
SQL(postgres, mysql) | noSQL(mongodb, documentdb)
Version Control
Git | Bit bucket
CMS
Wordpress | Strapi
Experience
Software Developer
Kayve
February 2024 – August 2024
- React & React Native Development: Built and maintained applications using React and React Native Expo, enhancing user experience and performance.
- Wrote smoke tests using postman for lambda functions APIs
- AWS Cloud Infrastructure: Configured and managed AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, and CloudWatch to optimize application performance and monitoring.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Successfully configured build pipelines to automate deployments, managing secrets and configuration files for seamless staging and production environments.
- Staging Environment Setup: Established a staging environment for internal testing, ensuring stability before production releases. Boosting app test-release cycle by 30%
- Push Notification Integration: Implemented dynamic push notification features, boosting app interaction by 70%.
- Chat Management with Amity SDK: Integrated and customized Amity Social SDK for chat functionalities, aligning with design specifications to enhance user engagement.
- Admin Dashboard Development: Designed and developed an admin dashboard for efficient user management, including search, filter, and pagination functionalities, with automated Firebase user management.
- Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborated with cross-functional teams on bug fixes and product releases. Liaised with stakeholders on AWS cost management to optimize budget and resource allocation.
Engineering lead
Freexit Technologies
May 2023 – January 2024
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams of product designers and software engineers, to design microservice architectures, enhancing application scalability and maintainability.
- Worked closely with the product team and stakeholders to make strategic decisions to boost team efficiency and meet product specifications and requirements.
- Successfully integrated cloud services to optimize application performance, storage, and data management.
- Championed the adoption of robust system designs, prioritizing efficiency, security, and scalability in all projects.
Full-stack Software Engineer
Muzzlab Technologies
April 2021 – December 2023
- Directed a cross-functional team in developing a cloud-native e-commerce system, showcasing strong leadership and a practical understanding of cloud architecture. Achieved a 30% reduction in operational costs while enhancing system reliability and performance.
- Project deployments to the production environment were slow and time to market was high, so I set up a CI/CD pipeline to speed up the process.
Full Stack Software Engineer
Wisper Communications Limited
Aug 2021 – May 2022
- Developed the algorithm for enabling users to buy cheap mobile internet data online and also resell.
- I developed scalable RESTful APIs with Django Rest Framework (Python library) and set up integration for the React.js frontend application.
Backend Developer
Hotels NG
April 2020 – June 2020
- Learnt new technologies and implemented them.
- Worked with different teams of talented engineers and contributed to building a web application for hiring talents.
- Gained real-life experience in following best practices, meetingdeadlines and making weekly deliverables.
Projects
More projects upon request