Cyril
Ekandem.

Full-stack Engineer

• Built travel delegation platforms and dynamic event management dashboards (Envoy) for conference organizers and hotels worldwide.
• Engineered traveler invitation workflows with draft state persistence, delegate intake portals, and automated notification reminders.
• Designed multi-provider flight booking GDS (Amadeus & Duffel APIs) with real-time pre-booking re-pricing, currency converters, and transactional ledger settlement.
• Architected dynamic NestJS microservices and gRPC APIs deployed on Docker, with dynamically resolved CORS headers for multi-domain support.

Full-stack & Mobile Engineer

• Building the trust marketplace for Nigeria's service economy — a scalable web and native app connecting verified providers with customers.
• Engineered a cross-platform mobile app using Expo Router and React Native, implementing Zustand state storage, TanStack React Query, high-fidelity Reanimated micro-interactions, and native Haptic feedback loops.
• Developed a decoupled Turborepo monorepo structured with Bun workspaces: Next.js web portal (`apps/web`), tRPC + Express HTTP backend (`apps/server`), and background worker queues (`apps/workers`) powered by Bull & Ioredis.
• Integrated full-duplex WebSocket connections (`ws`) for real-time messaging, native push notifications (`expo-notifications`), and Google Maps API coordinates for geolocation radius provider ranking.
• Integrated secure payment processors (Paystack top-ups & wallet splits) and self-hosted the cluster infrastructure on Hetzner VPS nodes utilizing Coolify.

Full-stack Software Engineer

• Pioneered a headless e-commerce ecosystem built on the Next.js T3 stack (tRPC, React Query, Prisma ORM over MongoDB).
• Engineered ultra-fast catalog indexing by integrating Elasticsearch and implemented high-performance Redis caching (ioredis) for cart session persistence.
• Integrated `@ai-sdk/openai` to build interactive conversational shopping assistants.
• Configured next-auth credential providers and secure Stripe webhook gateways to support automated checkout state recovery.

Lead Frontend Developer

• Developed responsive event registration platforms and secure checkout integrations for a high-traffic community portal.
• Engineered responsive welcoming grids, dynamic events tracking widgets, and queue-based waitlist registries using Next.js.
• Integrated secure Stripe Billing checkouts and webhook gateways to handle real-time donation processing.