Michael Utoh

Fullstack Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable web applications, backend systems, APIs, and real-time platforms across eCommerce, health-tech, fintech, edtech, and AI-powered products.

Software Engineer at TegenceAI (2025-01 – Present)

• Worked on a AI powered restaurant management system, performant SpringBoot/NextJs that allows clients security & low-latency on the platform.
• Developed backend services for an AI-powered gifting and eCommerce platform using TypeScript and NestJS.
• Implemented shopping cart, checkout, product variants, and multi-vendor order management systems.
• Built event-driven notification systems using Redis and WebSockets.
• Worked on asynchronous background processing and caching optimization.

Software Engineer at MobiHealth (2024-06 – 2024-12)

• Implemented RBAC authentication and Two-Factor Authentication systems.
• Developed backend logic for a real-time video conferencing platform using OpenTok.
• Integrated Paystack payments and asynchronous processing using AWS SQS.
• Developed GraphQL APIs and contributed to backend architecture planning.

Software Engineer at Prunedge (2023-08 – 2024-06)

• Built real-time notification systems using GraphQL subscriptions and WebSockets.
• Configured Daphne asynchronous servers for real-time frontend updates.
• Developed backend file management systems and resolved production issues.

Software Developer at Wazobia Technologies (2022-02 – 2023-08)

• Improved Core Web Vitals and frontend performance on a Next.js TypeScript application.
• Restructured monolithic Django services into FastAPI microservices using AWS Lambda.
• Built real-time APIs using FastAPI, Strawberry GraphQL, and MongoDB.

Software Developer at Torilo Group (2020-11 – 2022-01)

• Implemented payroll, tasks and accounting modules on the Bizedge suite of tools.
• Built a real-time chat system for bidirectional communication.
• Integrated Twilio and Sentry for messaging and monitoring.

BSc. in Computer Science – National Open University of Nigeria