Hi, I'm
Afeez Irekeola
Senior Software Engineer
9+ years building scalable backend systems, distributed services, and enterprise applications across airline, healthcare, education, and ecommerce sectors. Based in Oakville, ON, Canada.
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Who I Am
I'm a Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience delivering high-impact backend systems across diverse industries. My core strength is in designing and building scalable, reliable distributed systems — from microservices and event-driven architectures to cloud-native APIs.
I've contributed to products used by major global carriers, tens of thousands of healthcare patients, and hundreds of thousands of students. I care about clean engineering, good abstractions, and systems that hold up under real-world pressure.
Outside of work, I enjoy exploring new technologies, contributing to architectural discussions, and mentoring fellow engineers.
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Experience
Building disruption management and passenger experience software used by major global carriers.
- Developed scalable airline disruption-management and passenger-experience platforms.
- Designed and built a compensation engine processing $2M+ USD in meal vouchers for 200,000+ passengers.
- Implemented loyalty compensation workflows and integrated with third-party loyalty APIs.
- Designed backend services using .NET, RabbitMQ, and event-driven patterns to improve throughput and reliability.
- Led migration of core services from MongoDB to MySQL, improving query performance and data integrity.
- Built internal productivity tools and React/TypeScript UI components to accelerate engineering workflows.
- Refactored legacy modules to reduce technical debt and enhance system performance.
- Mentored engineers and contributed to engineering standards and best practices.
Leading healthcare technology company offering a suite of SaaS products for care-at-home organizations across the United States.
- Led architectural decisions and integration strategies for backend services across multiple product suites.
- Migrated 10+ live healthcare agencies to a modern SaaS platform with zero data loss and full workflow continuity.
- Built backend services powering compliance, scheduling, clinical documentation, and operational workflows.
- Integrated with external healthcare APIs and internal microservices to improve interoperability.
- Improved CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes, increasing release stability and reducing deployment time.
- Mentored new hires and contributed to onboarding, coding standards, and team knowledge sharing.
Custom enterprise software company serving clients primarily in the education and public sector.
- Developed enterprise applications for education and public-sector clients.
- Built and maintained APIs enabling integrations across multiple systems.
- Participated in requirements analysis, feature development, testing, and deployment.
- Supported QA and UAT processes, improving delivery quality and reducing defects.
Contracted to help migrate a major UK fast-food chain's on-premise e-commerce platform to microservice architecture.
- Built cloud-native customer microservices using .NET Core and CommerceTools.
- Supported migration of 500K+ customer records from on-premise systems to cloud microservices.
- Improved backend performance and reliability through scalable service design and API optimization.
- Collaborated with distributed teams delivering enterprise ecommerce solutions.
Architected and built backend microservices for two accounting solutions targeting SMEs.
- Designed and developed backend services for Inventory, Invoices, Transactions, and Vendor management modules.
- Built full User/Role Management and Accounting modules from scratch.
- Handled architecture, backend development, and deployment for both products.
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