Backend / Reliability Engineer

Ayo Akenroye

I build the reliability layer of backends: async processing, delivery guarantees, and APIs that hold up under load.

Career

Experience

Backend Engineer·Next Role
May 2025 - Present · Remote, UK
Software Engineer (Contract)·Amdari
Jan 2025 - May 2025 · Remote, UK
Software Engineer·The Casting Place
Apr 2022 - Nov 2024

Work

Projects

Deliverant preview
Deliverant

Open-source webhook delivery engine: at-least-once delivery, idempotency keys, exponential-backoff retries, HMAC signature verification, safe replay with dry-run, and per-attempt audit trails. Self-hostable.

DjangoCeleryPythonWebhooks
Source
Realtime Notifications

Scalable real-time notification system: WebSocket delivery, priority-based routing, per-priority rate limiting, offline processing, and observability via Prometheus metrics and structured logging.

DjangoWebSocketsCeleryPrometheus
Source
Django Affiliate System

Published PyPI package for affiliate tracking, commission calculation, and multi-tier referral programs.

DjangoPostgreSQLPyPI
Source
The Casting Place preview
The Casting Place

Casting platform with real-time chat, social feeds, and video processing. Reduced API response times by 60%.

DjangoREST APIsWebSockets
Elsa preview
Elsa

Browser-based AI portrait editor. Background removal, skin smoothing, and facial enhancement. All client-side, no uploads.

Next.jsTensorFlow.jsMediaPipeWeb Workers
Source
Pawrot preview
Pawrot

Browser-based audio transcriber powered by Whisper. Runs entirely client-side via WebAssembly. No API keys, no uploads.

ReactTypeScriptWhisperWeb Workers
Source

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