Open to senior & staff backend roles

Hi, I'm Princewill. I build web platforms that scale.

I build CRM-driven web platforms and the high-throughput backends behind them — customer dashboards, booking and order management, payments, and real-time systems that teams actually run their business on.

Abuja, Nigeria · Senior Backend & Full-Stack Engineer
10+
Years shipping software
457k
Users scaled to at BitGifty
5+
CRM-driven platforms shipped
15k
Concurrent users served

About

From CRM dashboards to systems at scale

A decade shipping full-stack products across hospitality, e-commerce, HR, fintech, and security — from the CRM dashboards teams work in every day to the high-load backends underneath them.

CRM-driven web platforms

Full-stack products that pair customer-facing sites with the admin CRMs behind them — bookings, orders, customer records, and role-based dashboards.

Distributed systems

Go and Python services built for high throughput — bounded worker pools, back-pressure, and lock-free hot paths.

Real-time & payments

WebSockets, SSE, and multi-chain payment rails powering live dispatch, checkout, and crypto bill payments at scale.

Security & reliability

Secrets detection, incident response, retries with backoff, and SLO-aligned observability you can trust in prod.

B.Eng. Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Federal University of Technology, Owerri

Nov 2013 – Dec 2019

Currently based in Abuja, Nigeria.

Experience

Where I've made an impact

Senior and lead roles across security, mobility, and fintech.

Senior Backend Engineer · Aqua Security

Feb 2025 – Present

Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Cut cloud-scanner end-to-end scan time by 50% by refactoring the concurrent pipeline to a bounded worker-pool with back-pressured channels; validated with pprof and benchstat.
  • Built an entropy-based secrets detection engine in Go that reduced false positives by 40% across cloud artifact scans while preserving recall on 25+ credential formats.
  • Played a key role in incident response during a security breach — forensic investigation, root cause analysis, and attack-vector identification.
  • Expanded observability with Datadog metrics, traces, and SLO-aligned alerts, cutting mean time to detection on scanner regressions.

Tech Lead · E-Global Consulting Group LLC

Jan 2023 – Feb 2025

Florida, USA (Remote)

  • Led a team of 8 engineers building a virtual-lane driver platform; designed a Go microservice architecture on AWS (ECS, MSK, RDS) serving 15k concurrent drivers with p99 dispatch latency < 200ms.
  • Shipped real-time call signalling and GPS tracking over WebSockets and Server-Sent Events, sustaining thousands of concurrent long-lived connections per node.
  • Implemented geo-fencing in Go using ray-casting, evaluating 5k points/sec per worker with lock-free hot paths.
  • Architected CI/CD with Docker and GitHub Actions, cutting manual ops by 50% and accelerating release cadence by 30%.

Tech Lead · BitGifty

Sep 2021 – Nov 2023

Lagos, Nigeria

  • Architected a cryptocurrency bill-payment platform letting users pay bills directly with crypto — growing users from 0 to 457k.
  • Horizontally scaled Django and FastAPI APIs to support 10k daily transactions with high availability.
  • Integrated the Go codebase with Ethereum smart contracts for on-chain payment execution, then expanded multi-chain support to Stellar and beyond.
  • Automated refunds with Celery workers detecting failed transactions, reducing refund turnaround by 70%.

Lead Backend Developer · Marketier Ng

Aug 2019 – Jul 2021

Remote

  • Managed 5 engineers building Algorand and Ripple wallet-management systems; owned Python SDK integration with the XRP Ledger.
  • Designed an order-matching service pairing users with best-available swap offers across multiple asset pairs.
  • Introduced Docker and CI/CD tooling, cutting deployment time by 50%.

Backend Developer · 0xEngine Labs

Mar 2016 – Jul 2019

Remote

  • Cut query latency by 50% on high-traffic endpoints through index tuning, join rewrites, and query-plan optimisation.
  • Built a Django + Elasticsearch indexing engine powering full-text catalog search across a large product inventory.
  • Tuned Nginx load balancing to smooth multi-instance traffic during high-volume campaign spikes.

Projects

CRM-driven platforms I've shipped

Customer-facing websites backed by the dashboards and admin tools teams use to run their business — hotels, e-commerce, HR, and payments. Tap any card to view the screens.

Thribeka Hotel

Hotel website + front-desk CRM

A luxury hotel platform pairing a polished guest-facing website with a full front-desk CRM: live occupancy and room-status boards, drag-to-assign rooms, guest profiles, and end-to-end reservation management with check-in/out and payment tracking.

CRMReservationsBooking engineDashboardReact
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Dyme Royale

E-commerce storefront + admin CRM

A custom-tailoring e-commerce brand with a shoppable storefront and a full admin CRM: orders, customers, payouts, product catalog, and a site manager for blogs, FAQs, reviews and content.

CRME-commerceAdmin dashboardOrdersPayments
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Appraisium

HR performance-management CRM

A multi-tenant HR performance-management platform: role-based access control, employee appraisals, KRA goal-setting and tracking, task management, budget tracking, and an analytics dashboard with charts and PDF reporting.

CRMRBACAnalyticsDashboardReactGo

GrepLock

My company · cybersecurity consulting

My cybersecurity consulting firm, helping teams harden how they build software — CI/CD, dependency risk, and secrets hygiene — while we build AI-powered cybersecurity for SMBs. New firm, honest scope; product still in development.

FounderCybersecurityCI/CDAIConsulting
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BitGifty

Crypto bill-payment platform

Pay everyday bills directly with crypto — no fiat conversion needed. Built the multi-chain payment engine (Ethereum, Stellar) and scaled the platform from 0 to 457k users at 10k daily transactions.

GoDjangoFastAPIEthereumStellarReactReact Native
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Pick 2

Digital Nigerian WHOT card game

A digital adaptation of the classic Nigerian WHOT card game with 1v1, multiplayer, and tournament modes. Live on Google Play with 50k+ downloads.

Real-timeWebSocketsGame backendMultiplayerGolang

Skills

My toolkit

The languages, infrastructure, and tooling I reach for to ship reliable systems.

Languages

GoPythonJavaScriptSQLPHP

Backend

gRPC / ProtobufWebSocketsServer-Sent EventsRESTOAuth2JWT

Frontend

ReactVue

Messaging

KafkaNATS JetStreamRedis StreamsRabbitMQCelery

Data

PostgreSQLTimescaleDBRedisElasticsearchCassandra

Cloud & DevOps

DockerKubernetesAWS (ECS, MSK, RDS, S3, CloudFront)GitHub ActionsNginx

Observability

OpenTelemetryJaegerPrometheusGrafanaDatadogpprof

Contact

Let's build something solid.

I'm open to senior and staff backend roles, consulting, and interesting distributed-systems problems. Drop me a line.