Resume — DAVID DADA

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NAME

david — Senior Backend Engineer — Distributed Systems, Golang & Cloud-Native Platforms

CONTACT

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githubgithub.com/obadafidii

emaildavidtofunmidada@gmail.com

location< > Open to Remote (Global / US)

Senior backend engineer with 3+ years shipping high-throughput, low-latency

systems in fintech, blockchain, and SaaS environments. Deep expertise in Go and

Node.js/TypeScript, distributed data pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure

(Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP). Track record of designing systems that cut

processing latency by 70%, scale architectures by 76%, and secure production

platforms end-to-end, from OAuth providers to Kubernetes-deployed trading

infrastructure. Builder of database engines, cache servers, and workload

orchestrators from first principles; comfortable owning systems from

architecture through deployment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

LanguagesGo, TypeScript/Node.js, Rust, JavaScript, PHP, C++ (LLVM)

FrameworksGin, Fiber, Express.js, NestJS, Next.js, Laravel

Data & MessagingPostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, GraphQL

InfrastructureKubernetes, Docker, Terraform, ArgoCD/Helm, GitHub Actions

CloudAWS (S3, EC2, IAM, RDS, Redshift, SQS), GCP (Compute Engine), Azure, Digital Ocean

AI ToolingClaude, Codex for AI-assisted engineering workflows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Golang Engineer (Blockchain)Mar 2026 – Present

Satsio · United Kingdom (Remote)

·Designed an administrative portal for matching-engine management on a live

trading platform, giving operators real-time control over exchange operations.

·Built a geolocation-based access control service to enforce regional

compliance across platform features.

·Hardened authentication by integrating and improving Google Authenticator

(2FA) and migrating Google OAuth to a server-side flow, closing client-side

token exposure risks.

·Designed a role-based permission system securing the admin portal against

privilege escalation.

·Owned Kubernetes deployments end-to-end using Helm charts and ArgoCD for

GitOps-driven releases.

Senior Golang EngineerNov 2025 – Present

Jobited · Germany (Remote)

·Built a full-stack job board (Go, Next.js, PostgreSQL) supporting both

anonymous and authenticated company job postings.

·Implemented dual-stack authentication: Web2 OAuth (Google, GitHub) and Web3

wallet login (Phantom, MetaMask).

·Designed an administrative approval/rejection pipeline for job listings and

shipped the Next.js frontend, deployed on Vercel.

·Containerized and deployed the backend on Digital Ocean behind a Caddy reverse

proxy for TLS termination, caching, and security.

Mid-Level Backend & Data Engineer (Blockchain)Jan 2025 – Jun 2025

Terrace · United States (Remote)

·Architected a decentralized, cross-chain data ingestion pipeline transforming

daily Solana market pool data into order books and trading metrics.

·Built wallet balance synchronization services reconciling on-chain and

off-chain state for users.

·Implemented a finite-state-machine trade engine to guarantee safe,

deterministic trade execution.

·Integrated TimescaleDB and Redis for real-time and historical analytics,

cutting end-to-end processing latency by 70% while sustaining 99.9%

trading-insight accuracy.

·Engineered order-book construction from Solana CLMM/AMM pools and led

execution infrastructure for Solana trades using Bloxroute, optimizing for

security and low latency.

·Built a blockchain security microservice on the GoPlus API to detect and

blacklist malicious tokens in real time, with WebSocket-based risk alerts for

DeFi protection.

·Paired with peers to raise ETL ingestion throughput for Solana markets by

70%+.

Backend EngineerAug 2023 – Jan 2025

Udux

·Built an ETL pipeline migrating PostgreSQL to MongoDB with advanced

transformations, lifting data quality by 89% with zero data loss.

·Redesigned the server architecture, improving scalability by 76% while

reducing downtime under high workloads.

·Integrated Stripe and Paystack payment gateways, streamlining transaction

throughput by 50%.

·Led development of a custom OAuth 2.0 provider enabling secure SSO across

external services, in close collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Senior Backend EngineerFeb 2023 – Mar 2024

SlideScribeAI (Microsoft ADC)

·Built multi-source extraction pipelines (audio + documents) using Azure

Document Intelligence, generating contextual notes at 70% accuracy to power

faster information retrieval.

·Shipped AI-driven slide generation with Azure OpenAI, improving output slide

quality by 60%.

·Led localization of educational content into three Nigerian indigenous

languages and shipped a Firebase Notification system, lifting platform event

interactions by 73%.

Senior Backend & DevOps Engineer (Contract)May 2024 – Jul 2024

Curaboard

·Led a zero-downtime domain migration ("Wishpo" → "Curaboard") via GoDaddy DNS

and AWS Amplify, restoring full access within 24 hours.

·Provisioned SSL certificates across the stack, achieving a fully encrypted

data path and eliminating unsecured endpoints.

SELECTED PROJECTS & OPEN SOURCE

KvShard (Go, distributed systems)

·Built a natively sharded, shared-nothing key-value database with an optional

write-ahead log (WAL) supporting crash recovery and WAL rotation.

Minired (Go, RESP, Docker)

·Built a high-performance concurrent cache server with RESP protocol and

Pub/Sub support, queued-command transactions, and persistent storage across

multi-cluster deployments.

Orchestra (Go, Gin)

·Architected a workload orchestration system from scratch, including a

Gin-based API server and worker-node monitoring/profiling via pprof and the

Linux proc filesystem.

DiceDB (open-source contribution, Go)

·Built and optimized the HTTP server test suite, ensuring full RESP command

coverage and independent startup from the RESP server during tests.

EDUCATION

University of Lagos, B.Sc. Computer ScienceLagos, Nigeria

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