Backend Engineer — Systems & Infrastructure · Lagos, Nigeria
I build the infrastructure other engineers depend on: API layers, message-processing systems, and developer tooling designed to hold up under real production traffic. Four shipped production systems across fintech, e-commerce, and developer tooling, plus a growing set of open-source infrastructure tools with real users.
I care most about the unglamorous parts that keep systems alive: idempotency, safe retries, rate limiting, observability, and graceful failure under load.
| Tool | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| DLQ Inspector | Inspect, classify, and safely recover failed messages from dead-letter queues. Dry-run by default, explicit confirm, full audit trail. | Go, RabbitMQ, Redis Streams |
| reqit | Local-first desktop API client — an open-source Postman alternative. No account, zero telemetry, plain JSON collections. | Go, Wails v2, React, TypeScript |
| jsonstack | Browser-based JSON viewer that handles large files other formatters choke on. | React, TypeScript |
| contextpack | Bundles a codebase into a single LLM-ready markdown/JSON file. | TypeScript CLI, npm |
| lazydb | Keyboard-driven terminal UI database client — lazygit, but for SQL. | Go, bubbletea, lipgloss |
- Myshoplet — commerce platform that replaces WhatsApp/Instagram DM selling for African vendors. Co-founder & CTO. 50+ vendor accounts, 40+ orders in the first month.
- 274Lab — structured 26-week JAMB/UTME practice platform with real scoring, weak-topic detection, and parent reports.
- Norah's Beauty Hub — full-stack Nigerian e-commerce platform, live at launch with ~200 SKUs.
Backend & Systems
Infra & Reliability
Frontend
Databases
Tooling
- Email: halxdocs@gmail.com
- Website: halxdocs.com
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