# Tunmise Akinade > Senior Full Stack Engineer @ UpMetrics Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tunmise Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building systems across fintech, government, and consumer tech. Led a team of 6 engineers that delivered national government technology projects serving 7+ million citizens. At Chowdeck, Nigeria's leading food delivery platform, architected products and features that helped scale the business, and re-engineered core systems to enable expansion into other African countries. Collaborated with distributed engineering teams across the US and Kenya through Andela, delivering fintech and data visualization solutions for global markets. Interested in the technologies behind Live streaming, Video on Demand delivery, and WebRTC as a tool for building Video conferencing solutions. ## Work Experience ### Senior Full Stack Engineer @ UpMetrics Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Backend Engineer @ Chowdeck Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria • Optimized Typesense secondary database and geo-polygon queries, improving 1 million+ daily search accuracy across 600k+ menu items and 10k+ vendors. • Developed Chowpass, a subscription feature that allows customers to get free benefits on orders. • Built cron jobs that run daily to debit subscribed customer wallets and cards for subscription renewals, upgrades, cancellations, and their notifications. • Developed Chowsmart, a one-click checkout feature, and unique campaign integrations for big restaurant chains, increasing daily average orders. • Automated T1 and T7 payment settlement schedule for 10k+ riders in multiple cities and countries. • Created automations for launching Chowdeck in 10+ cities across different african countries in seconds. • Introduced i18n functionalities, timezone awareness, and multi-currency payment and wallet support, which enabled the company’s expansion into new African countries. • Handled monthly technical support for customers and operational staff technical requests. ### Lead Software Engineer @ Outsource Global Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Abuja, Nigeria • Led a team of 6 developers to develop a social investment application; scaled to 7 million+ registered users and 30 million+ API requests monthly. • Implemented background jobs and Lambda functions, with AWS SQS and RabbitMQ as message brokers to create invoices and process payments of beneficiaries; Paid 1 million+ beneficiaries monthly. • Conducted weekly code reviews on Git Hub for team members. • Contributed to a vehicle lifecycle and ownership management platform, using Domain Driven Design software architecture; 1 million+ Vehicle Identification Numbers registered. • Optimized MySQL and PostgreSQL response time and queries; Reduced query time to an average of 250ms to 800ms. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Outsource Global Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria • Built a Google Drive replica, for the organization to manage files and documents, using ReactJs, NodeJs, and MongoDB; Ensured seamless file sharing among 500+ staff. • Re-designed an open-sourced Enterprise-level Contact Center Dialer solution for the company's customer care agents. ### Mid-Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ Stax Payments Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Orlando, Florida, United States •Contributed to microservices for merchants’ onboarding and payment processing; Upscaled merchant onboarding rate. •Oversaw the integration of Plaid for merchants to link commercial bank accounts; Increased customer payment processing rate by 15%. •Integrated Cloudwatch logging to microservices. •Wrote e2e unit and integration tests to ensure quality work is done; Improved applications efficiency rate. •Conducted weekly code reviews on Git Hub with team members. ### Software Engineer @ Lipa Later Group Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Nairobi, Kenya •Implemented background workers and webhooks to charge customers’ credit cards for loan repayments. •Managed Deployments of applications to AWS Services such as RDS, Amplify, EC2, Route53, S3, Cloudfront, Lambda, and others; Ensured Smooth Deployment of applications. •Wrote Python scripts to scrape authorized websites to fetch over 20,000 customers’ bill payment histories. ### Junior DevOps Engineer @ BrandMobile Africa Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Lagos, Nigeria •Deployed CI/CD Pipelines with Travis CI, GitHub Actions, and AWS Code Pipelines to deploy 5 applications to AWS Elastic Service Container and 5 frontend applications to AWS Amplify and S3 buckets; Resulting in automated product delivery for clients. •Performed load and stress testing of backend applications using Apache JMeter; Improved infrastructure threshold required for different amounts of requests. ### Software Engineer Intern @ CloudWare Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria •Developed a document approval flow application for a medium-sized commercial bank for 50+ bank staff. •Designed an internal payment gateway user interface for the organization's 200+ customers ### Software Engineer @ Planet NEST Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria • Created websites for small businesses with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. • Created online map games for users to re-arrange map images broken into grids. ## Education ### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science Federal University of Technology Akure ### WASSCE Wakajaye Community High School, Ibadan ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akinade-tunmise --- Source: https://flows.cv/tunmise JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tunmise/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05