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Gabriel Emmanuel

Backend / Cloud Software Engineer & Founder

Senior Backend and Cloud Systems Engineer with 7+ years of experience engineering high-concurrency payment infrastructure, real-time analytics engines, and resilient distributed architectures across banking, healthtech, and SaaS. Bootstrapped founder of Scalefort, having trained and mentored 100+ engineers in production-grade systems thinking.

contact@egabriel.dev·Remote / Consulting·egabriel.dev·linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-eghosa-gabriel·

Core Technical Competencies

Backend Engineering:Server-side development, REST API design, transactional systems, payments
Data & Real-time Ingestion:Change Data Capture, relational and analytical data modelling, caching
Distributed Systems & Messaging:Event-Driven Architecture, messaging, resilience patterns, enterprise identity
Cloud, Observability & DevOps:Cloud infrastructure, serverless, containers, CI/CD, logging, tracing, metrics

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer — Norebase
Nov 2025 — Present · Remote
  • Architected a real-time analytics data pipeline using Change Data Capture (CDC), replacing a relational query bottleneck; dropped dashboard API query latency from ~300ms to ~5ms (98% reduction).
  • Designed and deployed SCIM-based enterprise identity synchronization, automating user lifecycle provisioning and directory integration for enterprise corporate clients.
  • Drove core architectural decisions on event streaming, data ingestion topologies, and identity federation protocols across cross-functional engineering teams.
Senior Developer — First Bank of Nigeria Ltd.
Mar 2025 — Present · Hybrid
  • Design and maintain mission-critical payment processing and transaction infrastructure powering client financial flows across 3 bank subsidiaries and their mobile banking customer base.
  • Engineer high-volume server-side services operating under strict regulatory compliance, mathematical precision, security audits, and low-latency financial SLAs.
  • Implement robust RESTful API layers and transactional boundaries ensuring zero duplicate settlements and resilient transaction performance under heavy production load.
Founder & Lead Architect — Scalefort
Jan 2020 — Present
  • Founded and sustained operation for 6+ years as a bootstrapped founder, operating a dual tech school curriculum and commercial software delivery division.
  • Authored structured engineering curricula covering backend engineering, distributed architecture, and TDD; trained and mentored 100+ developers who transitioned into professional engineering roles.
  • Led end-to-end architecture and technical delivery for client software systems, including Komuvo (modular monolith estate management platform covering payments, visitor access and security).
Senior Software Engineer — COURE Technologies, Inc
Apr 2022 — May 2025
  • Led the migration from monolithic systems to microservices.
  • Architected RESTful APIs for automated appointment scheduling with calendar syncing; established authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0.
  • Optimized database throughput with replication and distributed in-memory caching.
Backend Developer — Wellahealth
Mar 2022 — May 2025
  • Developed serverless architecture, decreasing infrastructure spend by 30% while improving on-demand elasticity.
  • Engineered secure, HIPAA-compliant EHR backend featuring patient record management, data encryption, and access control audit trails.
  • Implemented comprehensive logging and observability across 10 applications.
Software Engineer — Black Insure
Oct 2019 — Mar 2022
  • Offloaded long-running processing to asynchronous background workflows.
  • Refined database queries and data access mappings, boosting application performance by 25%.
  • Containerized multi-tier applications for uniform deployments across environments.
Junior Developer — Erbaver Technologies
Jan 2018 — Oct 2019 · Initial commit
  • Built institutional administration dashboards for real-time exam and quiz monitoring with encrypted response protection.

Featured Architecture Case Studies

Norebase Real-time Analytics: Sub-5ms real-time event analytics replacing relational database load.
First Bank of Nigeria Payment Core: High-concurrency transaction processing across 3 banking subsidiaries.
Komuvo (Estate Management SaaS): Modular monolith with a transactional outbox, idempotent payments and QR visitor passes.