Backend & API Engineering
Node.js, TypeScript, REST and GraphQL — API layers built to hold up under real production traffic.
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Senior Backend Engineer
Bassey
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I build correctness-critical distributed systems, deterministic Rust services, low-latency order matching, and Node.js/TypeScript APIs that hold up under real traffic.
I'm a senior backend and systems engineer with 6+ years of production experience across fintech, Web3 protocols, and privacy software. I specialise in correctness-critical distributed systems — deterministic Rust services, event-driven architecture, wallet-based identity and access control, and Node.js/TypeScript API layers under real traffic.
I benchmark systems to locate actual bottlenecks rather than assumed ones, and choose runtimes and deployment models from measured evidence rather than convention — whether that's a Rust order-matching engine doing ~790k orders/sec, or a marketplace backend rebuilt in Rust/Axum for a 12–13x memory reduction.
Six years of fully remote delivery with distributed engineering teams across New Zealand, Romania, and the United States.
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Engineering philosophy
"Benchmark to find the actual bottleneck, not the assumed one, then let the evidence pick the runtime."
What I do
Rust & Systems Engineering
Axum, Tokio, deterministic services — correctness-critical systems where throughput and memory footprint actually matter.
Web3 & Smart Contracts
Solidity, wallet-based identity, on-chain settlement — ERC-20/721, DAO governance, and RBAC bridging Web3 to Web2 auth.
Distributed Systems & Performance
Event-driven architecture, message queues, benchmarking, and memory profiling — locating the actual bottleneck, not the assumed one.
Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps
AWS, Docker, CI/CD, and cost optimization — infrastructure and deployment decisions backed by measured evidence.
Technical Leadership
Architecture decisions, code review, mentoring — setting the patterns other engineers build against.
What I'm focused on
Current Role
Principal Engineer @ Independent Consulting
Architecting and operating a hybrid Rust/Node.js decentralised exchange, alongside AI and marketplace products live in production.
Building
Paltext AI & Maakeit
An AI customer-support platform live with 4 businesses, and a creator-founder marketplace live with 50+ vetted creators.
Ongoing
Web3Id — identity & access management
Bridging wallet-based identity to Web2-style authorization: roles, permissions, session management, and revocation.
Learning
Go (Golang)
Building HTTP services to deepen language fundamentals alongside Rust and Node.js work.
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