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Lawrence Enehizena

Software Engineer

Ontario, Canada

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Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience architecting scalable backend systems, payment infrastructure, and distributed applications. Expertise in microservices architecture, API development, data pipelines, decentralized storage, and AI-assisted development. Currently advancing skills in embedded systems and IoT through graduate studies.

Work Preferences

Salary

USD 120,000

Skills

REST APIs9/10
Microservices Architecture9/10
Golang9/10
Event-Driven Architecture8/10
AWS8/10
Docker (8/10)ETL Pipelines (8/10)PHP (8/10)IPFS (7/10)Kafka (7/10)Kubernetes (7/10)Laravel (7/10)JavaScript (7/10)Filecoin (7/10)MongoDB (7/10)Node.js (7/10)CI/CD (7/10)PostgreSQL (7/10)Python (7/10)LLM Integration / Agentic AI (6/10)

Work Experience

Software Engineer (Data Platforms)

Fieldpoint Servicing

Apr 2023 โ€” Sept 2025

Built and scaled AWS data engineering pipelines ingesting 300Kโ€“500K records/day. Integrated Citibank API and NYC Taxi API. Designed end-to-end ETL workflows reducing manual data processing by ~65%. Optimized RDS and Athena query performance, reducing latency by ~30%. Tech Stack: AWS (S3, RDS, Athena, Glue, Lambda), Python, Golang, REST APIs, SFTP, Power BI, Tableau.

Senior Software Engineer

Protocol Labs (Estuary Team)

Mar 2022 โ€” Mar 2023

Architected scalable backend services for Estuary, an open-source platform automating Filecoin storage with IPFS retrieval. Engineered automated deal-making systems and IPFS pinning service. Optimized performance to manage thousands of storage deals and millions of files. Tech Stack: Golang, IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, PostgreSQL, Docker, Git.

Senior Software Engineer

Frontdoor, Inc

Apr 2020 โ€” Dec 2021

Spearheaded migration of legacy monolithic invoicing system to microservices, slashing deployment time by 60%. Stabilized payment processing systems cutting downtime by 45%. Transformed deployment from VMs to Kubernetes. Deployed monitoring with Kafka event streaming. Tech Stack: Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, MongoDB, GitLab, Microservices.

Software Integration Engineer

ChartMogul

Jan 2018 โ€” Aug 2019

Developed integrations for 6 payment platforms (iTunes, Google Play, Zuora, GoCardless, Shopify, PayPal). Built ETL pipelines normalizing payment data processing millions of transactions monthly. Achieved 99.9% data synchronization reliability. Tech Stack: PHP, JavaScript, Python, Golang, Node.js, MongoDB, Docker, AWS, Travis CI.

Software Engineer

Piggy LLC

Apr 2017 โ€” Jan 2018

Architected ETL microservice ingesting promotional data from 8+ advertising APIs. Optimized REST API reducing response time by 40%. Designed data pipeline using AWS for high-volume ingestion and real-time analytics. Tech Stack: PHP, JavaScript, AWS (DynamoDB, Athena, CloudFront), PHPUnit, Travis CI.

Software Engineer

IROKO Partners Limited

Jul 2015 โ€” Apr 2017

Integrated 8 payment gateways enabling payments across African markets. Designed event-driven microservices for payment processing, subscription management, and recurring billing. Developed REST APIs with OAuth2 and JWT authentication. Tech Stack: PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, AWS (DynamoDB, ElastiCache), OAuth2, JWT, GitLab.

Education

Fanshawe College

Graduate Certificate ยท Electronics and Embedded Systems Development

? โ€“ 2026

University of Port Harcourt

BEng ยท Electrical/Electronic Engineering

2006 โ€“ 2012