Maya Okafor
Backend engineer · Amsterdam · [email protected]
Experience
Senior Engineer, Tidewater Freight · 2021 to now
Built data pipelines for the billing team.Moved settlement batch jobs to an event queue (Kafka), cutting payout lag from hours to minutes.- Led the Postgres 11 to 15 upgrade across 14 services with no downtime.
- Mentored four engineers; ran the on-call rotation.
Engineer, Brightline Retail · 2018 to 2021
- Built the order-events service in Python and Kafka.
Skills
PythonKafkaAWSTerraformPostgreSQL