Adam

Accra, Ghana

Backend Software Engineer specializing in high-throughput distributed systems built with C#/.NET. Experienced designing event-driven architectures using Kafka and RabbitMQ, optimizing SQL-backed APIs, and building scalable cloud-native services deployed on Azure and Kubernetes. Passionate about performance engineering, concurrency, and reliable backend infrastructure.

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Work experience

Backend Developer, Innorik Gh Ltd

Nov 2023 — Oct 2025

Built the backend for a safety management platform tracking 100 safety assets across 10 sites, covering misuse and fault detection with real-time alerting to safety teams and managers.
Designed the event pipeline on Apache Kafka, processing 10,000 events/day and delivering alerts in under 1 minute.
Instrumented the system with Azure Monitor, cutting mean time to detect production errors from 30 minutes to 5. Contributed to the React front-end alongside 5 engineers.
Built ingestion and validation for telemetry data of a telemetry system from more than 10 power stations, persisting 1,000 readings/day to SQL Server.

Rebuilt validation as a multi-threaded background worker, reducing a 30-minute processing run to 3

minutes.

Added Redis caching and pagination, cutting p95 query latency from 2 minutes to 200ms.

Web Developer, Freelance

Jul 2020 — Oct 2023

Delivered full-stack .NET applications end to end for 10+ clients: scoping, build, deployment, handover. Integrated Stripe payments and .NET Identity authentication into a retail application serving 100+ users. Set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions, reducing release time from 25 minutes to 3.

Education

BSc Computer Science — University for Development Studies

Sep 2019 — Aug 2023

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