Reached across Android and iOS through the Love Exploring product at NewRedo.
Accra · Remote · Software Engineer · Backend & Distributed Systems
I build backend-heavy distributed systems and full-stack products that hold up in production.
If you're hiring for a senior software engineer who can own architecture, delivery, and reliability, this is the work I do best. Over 5+ years I have shipped AI, fintech, and interactive platforms across backend services, distributed workflows, mobile integrations, and the product surfaces that sit on top of them.
Across SMS, USSD, and payment-critical workflows in fintech production systems.
Supported by observability and developer enablement work rolled out at Morgan Stanley / Turntabl.
Led while driving quality gates, code reviews, and delivery rigor in AI infrastructure work at Turing.
About
Backend-first software developer operating with senior-level ownership.
I build full-stack products, but most of my leverage comes from backend architecture, distributed systems, and platform reliability. Across teams like Turing, Fido, Renmo, NewRedo, Sparkhouse, and Morgan Stanley/Turntabl, I have worked on APIs, event-driven workflows, admin systems, mobile and web clients, and interactive game or AR experiences where resilient infrastructure matters as much as the UI. The consistent theme is ownership: designing systems, shipping them under constraints, and making them stable enough for real users and internal teams.
- LLM pipelines: RLHF, SFT, RAG, and MCP-driven action orchestration.
- Fintech reliability: SMS/USSD automation, CRM integrations, and escrow security controls.
- Distributed systems: backend APIs, messaging flows, observability, and fault-tolerant operations.
- Interactive platforms: full-stack game flows, Unity AR integrations, Flutter apps, and admin tooling.
Core capabilities
Python
Go
Java
FastAPI
Node.js
React
Flutter
Unity
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Grafana
OpenAI API
Education
BS Computer Engineering · University of Ghana (2020)
Certifications
Software Architecture · AWS Developer Associate
Community
I write public build logs on Medium about AI automation, derivatives tooling, and distributed systems, and host informal office hours with engineers exploring similar stacks.
Role Fit
What makes this a strong senior software engineering profile.
The strongest path to a senior software engineering role here is not adding more tools. It is making architecture ownership, scope, influence, and measurable outcomes impossible to miss.
Architecture ownership
I work above the ticket level: API design, service boundaries, failure handling, release paths, and cross-system integration are recurring parts of the job, not side tasks.
Scale and reliability
My work has touched 20k+ mobile users, 99.9% uptime fintech workflows, and internal platforms serving 200+ engineers where operational correctness matters.
Leadership and execution
I have led 5 engineers, enforced quality gates, written release and rollout playbooks, and kept delivery moving across product, design, operations, and engineering teams.
Business judgment
The outcomes are concrete: 30% faster throughput, 40% better reporting, market launches, revenue and partner workflows, and reliable production behavior across customer-facing systems.
The strongest senior-role narrative on this site is backend and distributed systems ownership, with enough full-stack range to ship the product surface when needed.
Experience
Experience that maps cleanly to senior software engineering.
The common thread in the roles below is ownership: architecture decisions, delivery under constraints, system reliability, and measurable product or business outcomes.
Apr 2026 – Present
NewRedo · Full-time Full-stack Software Developer
Full-time on Love Exploring, a cross-platform product serving 20k+ users across Android and iOS, where I work across Flutter, Unity AR, and backend-connected content systems that power distributed location-based game experiences.
- Owned Flutter-to-Unity treasure-hunt improvements for Android and iOS, including AR/non-AR routing, camera handoff, safe-area handling, screenshot sharing, and return-to-map behavior.
- Hardened app-to-content and backend integration with alternate API field mappings, missing-data validation, and case-insensitive Unity model matching to reduce broken AR launches and runtime errors.
- Owned release readiness across Flutter, Android, iOS, CocoaPods/Xcode, and Unity, then documented QA, approvals, rollout, rollback, and store-release workflows.
Contract · Active maintenance
Sparkhouse / SuperCash · Contract Full-stack Software Developer
Own active maintenance across a distributed gaming platform spanning the customer web app, backend API, admin cPanel, and USSD flows, with the main emphasis on backend services, distributed commercial workflows, wallet operations, and game-supporting platform logic.
- Owned and maintained referral, CPA qualification, payout automation, revenue-share, QR referral, SMS credit, and editable referral messaging flows across backend and partner-facing systems.
- Strengthened distributed finance and operations workflows through tighter cPanel role controls, partner and presenter restrictions, export support, KPI updates, and deposit payment-type fixes.
- Hardened wallet, SparkCoins, reward redemption, OTP, payment routing, and backend/USSD reliability with safer config handling and crash protection during infrastructure failures.
Jun 2024 – Oct 2025
Turing · AI Engineer
Built and delivered backend-heavy AI infrastructure for clients like Mistral and Apple, including RLHF/SFT/RAG pipelines, synthetic data generation, and MCP-backed API integration for safe multi-tenant agent workflows.
- Cloned Slack, Amazon, Jira, and PayPal endpoints using FastAPI for realistic inference sandboxes.
- Improved data engineering throughput by 30% with Python + SQL automations.
- Led a team of 5 engineers with rigorous code reviews and quality gates.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
Fido · Software Engineer
Delivered core fintech infrastructure for Ghana and Uganda, automating SMS/USSD workflows, standing up localized marketing stacks, and building internal tooling that unlocked 99.9% uptime across customer touchpoints.
- Implemented CRM integrations that improved reporting accuracy by 40%.
- Owned Ghana and Uganda web experience delivery plus the supporting DevOps pipelines.
- Built automation that empowered sales, marketing, and finance teams without engineering handoffs.
Sep 2023 – May 2024
Bet Tipster · Founder & Lead Engineer
Architected a secure microservices-based trading signals platform with JWT auth, escrow controls, and automated testing spanning web and mobile clients.
- Achieved 98% uptime through resilient messaging patterns and auto-scaling.
- Ran comprehensive unit, integration, and load tests before each release.
- Owned AWS + Heroku infrastructure plus database design.
Sep 2020 – Jan 2023
Morgan Stanley / Turntabl · DevOps & Software Engineer
Directed modernization of legacy services, implemented CI/CD hygiene automation, and rolled out observability dashboards for 200+ developers supporting critical trading systems.
- Reduced debugging time by 50% via automated error classification tools.
- Improved code quality by 30% with Bitbucket guardrails.
- Refactored monolith components into maintainable services.
2019 – 2022
Selected Contract Work
Renmo (Full-stack), Developers in Vogue (Web Tech Tutor), Maaze (Game Developer).
- Built accessible React apps for rent-to-own services serving 10k+ users.
- Taught 50+ women web dev and Python, boosting job placement by 70%.
- Shipped Maaze, a Unity-based puzzle shooter with procedural levels.
Business & Consulting
Selected systems that demonstrate senior-level ownership.
These are the engagements that most clearly show backend architecture, distributed systems reliability, cross-functional delivery, and enough full-stack range to ship the user-facing layer too.
Visitor Engagement · Full-time
NewRedo / Love Exploring
Full-stack software development across Flutter, Unity AR, and content-backed location experiences, with a strong focus on reliable game flows and system integration for 20k+ Android and iOS users.
Gaming Platform · Active maintenance
Sparkhouse Gaming Platform
Contract full-stack maintenance for a distributed gaming platform, with the heaviest work in backend services, wallet flows, referral automation, and operations tooling.
RLHF · RAG · MCP
Enterprise AI delivery with guarded runtime orchestration.
Model workflows, action routing, and partner-safe platform controls.
AI Platforms · 2025
Autonomous AI Delivery Platform
RLHF/RAG workflows, MCP routing, and sandboxed partner APIs that power safe enterprise AI adoption.
FinTech · 2024
Fido Growth Platform
Unified SMS, USSD, and CRM tooling for Ghana & Uganda launches with shared infrastructure and design system.
React · FinTech UX
Accessible rent workflows for monthly payment plans.
Consumer web journeys with compliance, financing, and conversion in balance.
Housing · 2022
Renmo Rent Experience
Rent-to-own web experience that helps African renters split payments monthly while keeping compliance and accessibility in check.
Personal Platforms
I own these end-to-end distributed products.
From media platforms and trading systems to consumer games, I handle the full stack myself: product direction, backend services, gameplay systems, release operations, and the user experience layer that ties it all together.
Action Puzzle · 2021
Maaze
Top-down survival maze shooter that blends navigation, timed pressure, and arcade combat across 48+ handcrafted levels.
Party Game · 2026
Cups and Giggles
Social guessing game with themed decks, shared party rooms, and live multiplayer flows backed by a realtime service architecture.
Puzzle Game · 2026
Memory Rush
Swipe-based memory puzzle where players study a path, retrace it from memory, and build combo-heavy runs as the grid expands.
Distributed ETL · LLM
10k+ articles per day with resilient ingestion and caching.
AI-assisted media intelligence built around durable pipelines and retrieval.
Media · 2024
NewsFoldr Intelligence
AI-assisted news aggregation ingesting 10k+ articles per day with resilient scrapers and caching.
Microservices · Security
Trading signals platform with escrow and JWT-secured workflows.
Full-stack ownership across pricing, access control, and product delivery.
Trading · 2023
Bet Tipster Platform
Microservices trading signals product with escrow safeguards, JWT auth, and full test coverage.
Writing
Recent insights on Medium.
January 10, 2025
Automated Deriv Options Trader
How I designed a high-performance Deriv.com trading bot with risk controls and monetization hooks.
July 24, 2024
Exploring Contract Options Strategies on Deriv
Field notes from simulating derivatives strategies and wiring telemetry into my automation stack.
February 3, 2024
I automated content generation for my newsletter with RAG pipelines
Step-by-step breakdown of the OpenAI + retrieval stack that powers my automated newsletter.
December 22, 2023
Harnessing the OpenAI API for Automated, Personalized Newsletters
Harnessing the OpenAI API for Automated, Personalized Newsletters: Understand how to create newsletters using AI.
December 8, 2023
Profitable AI: Build and Monetize Your Custom GPT Models
Lessons learned productizing custom GPTs—from UX flows to packaging and revenue experiments.
Toolkit
Technologies I grab most often.
Languages
Python, Go, Java, C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, SQL, Bash
Frameworks
FastAPI, Flask, Spring Boot, Node.js, React, Flutter, Unity, PyTorch
Cloud & DevOps
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Heroku
Data & Observability
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Grafana, SonarQube, ETL Pipelines, OpenAI API
Certifications
Proof of continuous learning.
I keep formal training current so architecture and cloud guidance stays production-ready.
Udemy · Mar 2024
Software Architecture & Technology of Large-Scale Systems
Deep dive into resilient distributed systems, domain-driven design, and cost-aware scaling patterns.
- Codified reference diagrams for service decomposition.
- Benchmarked caching and messaging strategies for fintech stacks.
Credential ID: UC-af61da2d-f12c-4dcb-96d1-7e2a5aca8163
Udemy · Jan 2024
Ultimate AWS Certified Developer Associate (DVA-C02)
Hands-on labs covering serverless, containerized, and event-driven patterns for developer productivity.
- Automated IaC guardrails and CI/CD hygiene.
- Optimized Lambda + API Gateway patterns for low-latency fintech flows.
Credential ID: UC-9b8c77a3-9a2f-41d0-811b-78319b5d20b8
Contact
Open to senior backend, platform, and software engineering roles.
I’m currently most interested in senior software engineering roles where backend systems, distributed workflows, reliability, and product delivery all matter. Send a note with the scope, technical challenges, and team context.