Valentine Opurum

Technically skilled, Full Stack Software Engineer with over 3 years of development, testing and deployment of multiple web and software applications in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. A communicative team player who thinks in terms of solutions and actively offers them, highly skilled in programming, databases, Restful Web Services, Docker, CI/CD tools and front end Technologies like React, Bootstrap, HTML and CSS. Good at gathering user requirements and writing code using an agile methodology.

Decagon, Lagos, Nigeria — Software Engineer

September 2020 - PRESENT

● Maintained standard coding practices and high-quality normalisation techniques with SQL and Postgres server ensuring 100% efficiency of applications built.

● Improved client satisfaction on products built to 100%. 

● Ensured the quality of software products through code reviews and a high level of unit and functional test coverage, strictly ensuring that 100% of established tests are passed.

● Completed all projects to 100% schedule, budget, and 100% desired functionality.

● Worked extensively with frameworks like Spring framework, spring boot, JPA, Hibernate, data repositories like Postgres and MySQL and developed very efficient enterprise and Restful APIs with Spring boot achieving 100% efficiency

● Worked extensively with Java/J2EE, Java 8/11 and higher, for server-side development, consistently achieving 100% efficiency.

● Identified and refactored flaws in the existing code base for reusability and decreased development time by 50%.

Prosoft, Port Harcourt, Nigeria — Software Engineer

March 2019 - August 2020

● Teamed with project managers, developers quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues and enhance productivity by at least 70%.

● Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionalities by 60%.

● Created real-world e-commerce websites using some java web technologies like Servlet API, JSP, JDBC, which eventually increased the client’s company revenue by 50%.

● Part of a team that built a number of enterprise applications that surpassed clients’ projected profit by over 50%.

Decagon Software Engineering Institute, Lagos, Nigeria 

2018 - 2019

Rivers State University, Nigeria —Bachelor’s Degree

August 2012 - August 2016