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Daniel Okafor

Senior Software Engineer

daniel.okafor@example.com+1 (415) 555-0142Seattle, WAhttps://github.com/dokaforhttps://linkedin.com/in/danielokaforhttps://danielokafor.dev

## Summary

Backend engineer with 6 years building payment and identity systems at scale. I like unglamorous work: cutting p99s, deleting dead code, and making on-call quiet.

## Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Northwind Payments · Seattle, WA

Apr 2022 — Present
  • Cut checkout p99 latency from 1.9s to 340ms by replacing synchronous fraud checks with an event-driven pipeline.
  • Led the migration of 40 services off a shared database, removing the last single point of failure in the platform.
  • Reduced on-call pages 70% by adding idempotency keys to the settlement path.

Software Engineer

Halcyon Labs · Portland, OR

Jan 2020 — Mar 2022
  • Built the public API now serving 12k businesses and 90M requests a month.
  • Introduced contract testing, cutting integration regressions by roughly half.

## Education

University of Washington

B.S., Computer Science

2015 — 2019

## Skills

LanguagesExpert

GoTypeScriptPythonSQL

InfrastructureAdvanced

AWSKubernetesTerraformKafka

PracticesAdvanced

Distributed systemsObservabilityCode review

## Projects

ratelimit-go

https://github.com/dokafor/ratelimit-go

Open-source token bucket limiter for Go services. 1.4k stars, used in production by three companies.

## Languages

EnglishNative