# Felix Okeke > Software Engineer Location: Nigeria, Nigeria Profile: https://flows.cv/felixokeke Felix is a proficient software developer with 7+ years of experience, now focused on building AI‑powered products. He specializes in full‑stack development with JavaScript, Python, and Node.js, and has delivered real‑time, media‑rich AI experiences across web platforms. He has worked in small and medium‑sized companies, from Silicon Valley startups to mid‑large scale global businesses. Felix excels at collaborating with stakeholders—explaining tradeoffs, prototyping quickly, and aligning teams to solve complex problems. He’s hands‑on, curious, and consistently learning new AI technologies. His background enables him to contribute end‑to‑end: planning, architecture, deployment, and performance troubleshooting—especially for AI systems and streaming‑heavy applications. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ UNITH Jan 2024 – Present | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Designed and implemented a real‑time digital human streaming client (audio/video) with VP8 decoding, frame buffering, and synchronized playback for low‑latency conversational UX. Implemented a web audio pipeline using AudioWorklets, drift correction, and adaptive playback controls to keep audio/video in sync. Designed a modular conversation SDK with event‑driven architecture, robust session lifecycle handling, and backpressure for streaming frames. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Hardsands Technology Limited Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria Led the team in rebuilding the client facing web application from scratch in record time. Requirements such as UX, accessibility, unit and end to end tests, modularity and business needs were met sufficiently. Worked with the growth and design team to design certain variations of the checkout flow. This boosted conversion by 40%. Setup instrumentation using openTelemetry and Datadog to improve observability and collect telemetry data. Identified and implemented solutions to greatly optimize the client facing application, including reduction in build time and increase in application audit and performance scores using industry recognized measurement tools. Leveraged knowledge in React, Redux, Next Js, Typescript, CSS, Chakra UI, Jest, A/B tests. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Pangaea Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States Used React/AWS Lambda to build a tool to automate our 11 language translation processes. This reduced the amount of time and effort spent on this process by over 90%. Constructed custom and advanced web components that met design, accessibility and performance requirements. Mentored and provided feedback to engineers through code reviews and pair programming. Improved front end performance by fixing memory leaks, fixing bugs, and significantly reducing app bundle size. Created A/B tests and workflows with tools like Optimizely Contributing to the hiring process by conducting interviews and reviewing take-home assignments. Led a team responsible for improving code coverage from 25% to 90% on the frontend codebase Leveraged knowledge in React Js, Node Js, PHP, Amplitude, AWS, Optimizely, Typescript, Shopify, Cypress, Jest ### Senior Software Engineer @ PATRICIA Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria Architected the Front-End architecture to allow for de-coupled applications and future applications (micro-architecture). This was for a major crypto based product serving Africa markets. Development of a fully accessible and cross-library web component library using Vue JS. This reduced code duplication and greatly increased efficiency across teams. Integrated real-time notifications for the internal CMS application using web sockets. This reduced the regular backlog of messages from 500 to 10 per day. Pioneered and led a project to convert the CMS's custom JavaScript router to TypeScript, add sufficient unit, integration and e2e test coverage and to refactor the router to be more effective. Assisted in Increasing search results accuracy by 20% by implementing fuzzy searching in a part of the user facing application. Using different optimization strategies and procedures, I Spearheaded the optimization of a legacy frontend codebase thereby reducing load time by 60%. Leveraged Knowledge in Vue Js, Web Sockets, GraphQL, Node JS, Python, Fuzzy Logic, Javascript, Typescript. ### Software Engineer @ PATRICIA Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Lekki ### Software Engineer @ Guinea Insurance Plc Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Lagos Worked on the design, implementation and migration of a revolutionary replacement for a web portal for buying motor insurance using VueJS. This application has since registered over 1 million users. Ensured the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs. Introduced unit testing into the legacy codebase using vue-testing library and Jest. Utilized the token bucket algorithm to enforce rate limiting on the APIs thereby reducing cloud resources usage by 30%. Leveraged knowledge in Git, Algorithms and Data structures, Javascript and debugged using Chrome Developer Tools. ### Software Engineer @ Independent National Electoral Commission Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Lagos Implemented a logistics management portal to monitor and track the distribution of election materials using NodeJs. Extended the application by building an API layer that allowed other authorized parties access to the system. Leveraging expertise of sockets and Redis, I implemented an internal chat application for communicating between different administrators. ### Web Developer @ Yudimy Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Lagos Designed and developed some of the pages for the website using CodeIgniter. Implemented authentication with Auth0 for the site. Wrote the company’s API with the documentation site and also assisted in its deployment. Wrote the company’s admin front. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Systems Engineering University of Lagos ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/felixiho - Website: https://fairgoat.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/felixokeke JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/felixokeke/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23