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James Ugbanu

Senior Software/Infrastructure Engineer focused on backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and product engineering.

I build software that is meant to hold up in production: APIs, distributed workflows, deployment systems, and the platform decisions behind them. My work has spanned fintech, identity, travel, and community products, with a consistent focus on reliability, scalability, cost awareness, and practical engineering judgment.

What I Work On

  • Backend and full-stack application development
  • Cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows
  • Distributed systems and asynchronous processing
  • Reliability, observability, and production readiness
  • Product engineering across fintech, travel, identity, and community platforms

Featured Case Studies

These are public-safe project breakdowns written for recruiters, engineering leads, clients, and companies. They focus on engineering decisions, tradeoffs, business impact, and production thinking without exposing confidential implementation details.

  • TaxBloc Financial data export workflows, cloud deployment design, and production-minded infrastructure decisions.
  • myTreep Founder-led product engineering around AI-assisted travel planning, monetization flexibility, and fast iteration.
  • TribeIRL Engineering inside a broad community and events system with asynchronous workloads, release discipline, and operational resilience.

See the full case studies index.

Selected Experience

  • Built and maintained production systems using TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma, and React.
  • Designed and supported cloud-native deployments on AWS with attention to security, release discipline, and cost efficiency.
  • Worked on systems involving queues, workers, payment integrations, external APIs, and heavier background workloads.
  • Shipped across product environments where engineering quality had to support both user experience and business credibility.

Products And Packages

Products

Packages

Technology Areas

TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Next.js, NestJS, React, React Native, PostgreSQL, Prisma, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Redis, CI/CD, distributed systems, and backend platform engineering.

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  1. aws-terraform-cost-efficient-production-infra aws-terraform-cost-efficient-production-infra Public

    Cost-efficient production-grade AWS infrastructure using Terraform, ECS Fargate, RDS, ALB, and GitHub Actions.

    HCL

  2. react-native-woocommerce-api react-native-woocommerce-api Public

    A wrapper that connects react Native to the WooCommerce API

    JavaScript 49 8

  3. Ecommerce-mobile-template Ecommerce-mobile-template Public

    This is a simple e-commerce template with a visual search using TensorFlow built with React Native and Expo. It provides a basic structure and components to help you kickstart your e-commerce app d…

    TypeScript 24 13

  4. react-session-timeout react-session-timeout Public

    How to develop a session based timeout on react.js

    JavaScript 7 8

  5. cf7-paystack-addon cf7-paystack-addon Public

    Integrates Paystack with Contact Form 7 for redirecting user to payment page for the any purpose like donations or any other payment.

    PHP 2 1

  6. i-DENVA/blurry-check i-DENVA/blurry-check Public

    Browser-side upload quality validation for images and PDFs. Files never leave the device — all analysis runs client-side.

    TypeScript 2