About

Software engineer with eight years building production systems, currently working in Go on high-throughput event-driven infrastructure for betting and financial products at Betika, where services process 10,000+ events per second. Experience spans distributed backend systems, full-stack product engineering across health tech and research, and four and a half years teaching computer science at university level.

Experience4

1. B

   Senior Software Engineer

   Sep 2023 — Present

   Betika · Remote

   Designed and implemented a high-throughput, event-driven promotion engine processing 10,000+ events per second. Built transactional workflow systems for financial settlements with guaranteed delivery semantics. Developed a real-time notification service on RabbitMQ with dead-letter queue handling. Implemented the observability stack for metrics, logs and distributed tracing.

   • Processed 10,000+ events per second
   • Built transactional workflow systems with guaranteed delivery
   • Developed a real-time notification service on RabbitMQ
2. VH

   Full Stack Engineer

   2021 — 2022

   Vien Health · Remote

   Developed a patient dashboard surfacing real-time health metrics. Built a compliant data-management system for medical records. Implemented appointment scheduling with calendar integration.

3. AC

   Teaching Assistant

   Jul 2018 — Jan 2023

   Academic City University College · Accra, Ghana

   Taught and supported undergraduate courses in operating systems, data structures and databases. Mentored students through practical programming and software engineering coursework. Supervised laboratory sessions and practical assessments.

4. KN

   Graduate Assistant (National Service)

   Sep 2017 — Sep 2018

   Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · Kumasi, Ghana

   Supported teaching and laboratory instruction for undergraduate computer engineering courses. Mentored students through practical programming and systems coursework. Assisted with lab supervision, grading and course material preparation.

Education2

• UO

  MSc Computer Science

  2022

  University of Ghana

  Distributed systems, machine learning, software engineering research

• KN

  BSc Computer Engineering

  2022

  Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Certifications5

• Solana Blockchain Developer Program

• LFS145: Introduction to Protocol Buffers

  The Linux Foundation

• Go Programming: The Complete Developer's Guide

• Rust Programming: The Complete Developer's Guide

• M121: The MongoDB Aggregation Framework

  MongoDB University