Software developer CV example (Nigeria)

Software developer

A mid-level Nigerian backend engineer with 5 years at Lagos fintechs - production Python, Go, and distributed systems.

Oluwaseun Adebayo

Senior Backend Engineer

Yaba, Lagos · +234 807 345 6789 · [email protected] · github.com/seunadebayo · linkedin.com/in/seunadebayo

Summary

Backend engineer with 5 years building fintech infrastructure at Flutterwave and Carbon. Specialising in Python, Go, PostgreSQL and distributed systems. Open-source maintainer (pg-partition-pilot, 1.2k GitHub stars) and HNG Internship 7 alumnus.

Technical Stack

PythonGoPostgreSQLRedisKafkaDockerKubernetesAWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)TerraformCI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Experience

Senior Backend Engineer · Flutterwave03/2023 - Present

Pan-African payments infrastructure · 3M+ merchants · 25-engineer backend team.

Owned the KYC verification pipeline; reduced verification time from 48 hours to under 10 minutes by rewriting in Go.
Introduced automated identity-document OCR, cutting manual review workload by 72%.
Mentored 2 junior engineers through to mid-level promotion.
Stack: Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes.

Backend Engineer · Carbon07/2020 - 02/2023

Nigerian digital lender · 2M+ users.

Built the real-time credit-scoring API serving 10K requests/second at peak.
Refactored the loan-disbursement service into event-driven architecture; cut P99 latency from 1.8s to 240ms.
Stack: Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS Lambda.

Open Source

pg-partition-pilot · 1.2k stars on GitHub · github.com/seunadebayo/pg-partition-pilot
Automatic partition management for PostgreSQL. Used in production at Paystack and Kuda.

Education

B.Sc Computer Science (Upper Credit), University of Lagos · 2019
HNG Internship 7 (Backend track, Grand Finalist) · 2020

Referees

Mr. Chukwuemeka Ibe · Engineering Lead, Flutterwave · +234 803 100 2000
Mrs. Hadiza Yakubu · VP Engineering, Carbon · +234 806 400 5000

What makes this CV work

GitHub URL is in the header - recruiters can audit real code before interviewing. For developers this is more important than LinkedIn.
Technical stack sits above work experience - that's the section ATS parsers and human skimmers hit first for engineering roles.
Open-source project with concrete adoption (1.2k stars, named adopters) outweighs most work bullets - it's independently verifiable.
HNG Internship called out explicitly - a strong signal in the Nigerian tech recruiting ecosystem.
Measurable performance outcomes (P99 latency 1.8s → 240ms) prove technical depth, not just activity.

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Put your GitHub profile in the header, not buried in a sidebar. Share-ready URL that works on mobile.
Lead with your technical stack as a dedicated section, not scattered inside bullets. ATS parsers and recruiter skimmers both scan it first.
For every role, add a one-line stack summary under the bullets - makes it easy to filter which role used what tech.
Include HNG, Andela, Zuri, I4G or similar bootcamp participation if applicable - signals you're plugged into the Nigerian tech scene.
Measurable performance / scale outcomes beat feature lists. "Cut P99 from 1.8s to 240ms" always beats "built the loan service".

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