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abubakar yinusa

abubakar yinusa

software engineer

i like building things that work quietly in the background. payment systems. deployment pipelines. data infrastructure. mostly backend. sometimes the thing that connects the backend to everything else.

based in nigeria. trying to break into big tech.

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## selected work

hooklens.md
hooklens

unified webhook gateway for african payment providers. one endpoint. consistent format. events stored and replayable.

typescript / node.js / postgresql / redis
conductor.md
conductor labs

release coordination for teams. unifies product, engineering, and deploy signals into one view so you can answer: can we ship?

react / node.js
trade-tracker.md
trade tracker

trading journal that captures strategy, mood, and confidence alongside entries. an ai layer finds the patterns you can't see from inside the trade.

next.js / python / ai
courseflow.md
courseflow

academic coordination platform for nigerian universities. gives course reps, students, and lecturers a shared view instead of scattered whatsapp groups.

react / node.js / postgresql

## side quests

rate-limiter.go

distributed rate limiting with sliding window. smoother than fixed-window approaches.

go / redis
payments.md

end-to-end payment flow simulation. every stage from intent creation to settlement and compliance.

node.js
ml-projects.md

prediction models and recommendation systems. diabetes, gold prices, house prices, movie recs.

python / scikit-learn
rag-system.py

local pdf ingestion for offline study. upload lecture notes, ask questions, get answers. no cloud.

python / langchain
elt-pipeline.sql

extract, load, transform. data pipeline with schema evolution, incremental loading, and quality checks.

python / postgresql / dbt

## writing

[2026] going through warp's policy assignment take-home designing a rule engine that decides which policy applies to which employee → [2026] what really happens after you click pay from frontend to payment processor. → [2026] i built a distributed rate limiter in go with zero go experience from typescript to concurrent, redis-backed go in one project → [2026] i inherited a broken codebase. here's what i found and what i built the archaeology of someone else's technical decisions → [2025] building courseflow: bridging the gap in university academic tracking building for a role that has no existing software →