Daniel Okafor
Software Engineer
daniel.okafor@example.com|(206) 555-0188|Seattle, WA|LinkedIn|GitHub
Summary
Software engineer with 4 years of experience building reliable backend services in Python and Go. Enjoys making slow systems fast and making on-call quiet.
Experience
Software Engineer II, Cascade Logistics — Seattle, WA
Mar 2023 – Present- Rebuilt the shipment tracking API in Go, cutting median response time from 420ms to 90ms
- Moved 12 services from virtual machines to Kubernetes, lowering hosting costs by 28%
- Added alerts and runbooks that reduced after-hours pages from 15 a month to 3
- Reviewed code for a team of 6 and ran the weekly design review
Software Engineer, Pinecrest Health — Remote
Jul 2021 – Feb 2023- Built appointment booking services in Python and PostgreSQL used by 40 clinics
- Wrote a test suite that raised coverage from 35% to 80% and caught 2 billing bugs before release
- Set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions, taking deploys from weekly to daily
Projects
Queue Watch — GitHub
2024Go, Prometheus
- Open-source dashboard for message queue backlogs, starred by 400+ developers
Education
B.S. Computer Science
2017 – 2021University of Washington — Seattle, WA
Skills
Python, Go, SQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, REST APIs, gRPC