Bolaji Kolawole

Full Stack & Platform Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, reliable, and transaction-heavy software systems across payments, e-commerce, operational platforms, and distributed workflows. Strong background in TypeScript, Node.js, React, PHP, Laravel, and event-driven architecture. Experienced in owning projects end-to-end — from product requirements and architecture design to deployment, monitoring, and production support.

Comfortable working across application, infrastructure, database, and operational layers.

Software Engineer at Intrasoft (2024-02 – Present)

• Designed and built scalable backend services supporting secure payment processing and real-time transaction verification workflows.
• Developed reliable REST APIs powering production client applications with strong focus on performance, observability, and data integrity.
• Built webhook-driven event processing and reconciliation pipelines to handle asynchronous payment provider events safely and reliably.
• Owned features end-to-end: architecture design, implementation, deployment, debugging, monitoring, and production support.
• Improved system reliability and API responsiveness by identifying architectural bottlenecks and optimizing database queries.
• Contributed to developer productivity and release reliability through improved CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.

Full Stack Engineer at Intrasoft (2023-02 – 2024-01)

• Built internal and client-facing web applications using React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
• Designed reusable frontend and backend modules to accelerate feature delivery across multiple products.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to transform product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Implemented responsive interfaces and backend services supporting operational and transaction-heavy workflows.
• Participated in architecture discussions, debugging, testing, deployment, and production support.

Web Developer at GoWork (2022-08 – 2023-02)

• Architected and delivered the GoWork hyper-local entrepreneur marketplace end-to-end using PHP and Laravel.
• Designed backend systems for payments, subscriptions, inventory management, and order lifecycle workflows.
• Built scalable APIs for catalogs, carts, transactions, and user management with Paystack and Google Maps integrations.
• Integrated third-party payment systems and implemented secure authentication and role-based authorization flows.

Freelance Full Stack Developer at Independent (2020 – 2022)

• Delivered custom web applications for clients across e-commerce, logistics, and services industries.
• Built full-stack projects using PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, and MySQL from requirements to deployment.
• Integrated third-party payment APIs (Paystack, Flutterwave) and SMS/notification services.
• Managed client relationships, scoped projects, and maintained production applications independently.

Software Developer Intern at Unknown (2019 – 2020)

• Built and maintained web features using PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS under senior engineer mentorship.
• Contributed to frontend and backend tasks across live production environments.
• Gained hands-on experience in databases, API integration, and software development workflows.

Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Science – National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) (2020 – 2024) National Diploma – The Polytechnic of Ibadan (2015 – 2017)