Hey, there! A little backstory on me. Shall we?
I'm Okereke Vincent, a Senior Software Engineer focused on backend systems, distributed platforms, and reliability.
I design systems around a simple principle: correctness has to survive failure.
My work focuses on distributed job orchestration, state machines, transactional systems, concurrency control, idempotency, coordination, and deterministic recovery. I care about how systems behave under concurrent writes, retries, partial failures, crashes, and increasing load.
My primary stack is Go, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, and Redis, with supporting experience in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, TypeScript, and Next.js.
What I Build
Distributed Systems
Job orchestration, worker coordination, leasing, state machines, retries, and failure recovery.
Backend Platforms
Transactional APIs, control planes, multi-tenant systems, idempotency, caching, and real-time infrastructure.
Reliable Systems
Architecture designed around concurrency, failure modes, observability, and operational correctness.
What I'm Looking For
I'm interested in Senior Backend, Platform, and Distributed Systems roles where I can own technically difficult problems and contribute to architecture, implementation, and production reliability.
I work best with engineering teams that value autonomy, strong technical judgment, clear communication, and well-designed systems.
Get in Touch
Have an idea, project, or collaboration in mind? I'd love to connect and hear about it.