Alago Nzube

Backend Developer with hands-on experience building, testing, documenting, and deploying backend services using JavaScript, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and Python. Led development of EquiTask AI, delivering 29+ REST API endpoints, secure authentication flows, automated tests, and a Python AI microservice. Comfortable collaborating with frontend developers, reviewing code, debugging backend issues, and incorporating feedback.

Brings strong fundamentals in API design, maintainable code, problem-solving, and continuous learning, with readiness to deepen practical experience in MySQL, Redis, AWS, and Google Cloud.

Backend Team Lead - EquiTask AI Project at Tech4Dev Fellowship (2026-01 – 2026-03)

• Built and maintained backend features for a task-management platform using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.
• Designed and deployed 29+ REST API endpoints covering authentication, task workflows, employee onboarding, organization invitations, and AI-assisted task breakdown.
• Wrote clean, reusable backend logic and documented API endpoints to support frontend integration, team testing, and future maintenance.
• Implemented JWT authentication, Google OAuth 2.0, password recovery, bcrypt password hashing, and TOTP-based two-factor authentication.
• Created invite-based organization and employee workflows and integrated Nodemailer for invitation and verification emails.
• Developed a Python Flask microservice using Google Gemini and integrated it with the Node.js backend through HTTP.
• Wrote Jest unit tests for 12 critical endpoints and achieved approximately 80% coverage across core authentication and task-management modules.
• Debugged backend issues, reviewed teammates' code, incorporated feedback, and supported delivery across the project team.
• Deployed Node.js and Python services on Render with GitHub-based automatic deployment workflows.

Peer Mentor & Code Reviewer at Tech4Dev Fellowship (2026-01 – 2026-03)

• Mentored three fellowship peers on REST API design, Git workflows, and authentication implementation.
• Participated in code reviews and collaborative debugging sessions to improve code quality and team problem-solving.

Backend Development Fellowship – Tech4Dev (2025-09 – 2026-12)