I build software — and the systems that keep it running. Senior software engineer based in Nigeria with 10+ years shipping full-stack SaaS products and owning the CI/CD, cloud, and containerised infrastructure that keeps them reliable in production.

• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, Ansible
• Cloud: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, serverless), multi-environment deployments

• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Vue.js, Redux / Pinia
• Backend: Node.js, NestJS, Express, REST, GraphQL (Hasura & Apollo), microservices
• Databases & ORMs: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, TursoDB, Redis · Prisma, DrizzleORM, Sequelize
• Testing: Jest, Playwright, Vitest

Mailer · TypeScript · Apache-2.0
Self-hostable email orchestration microservice: pluggable templates (React Email, MJML, HTML), dual auth (API keys & HMAC), rate limiting, and Docker-first config.

BQ Queue · TypeScript · Apache-2.0
Self-hostable job queue and signed webhook delivery on PostgreSQL / pg-boss — shared scheduling, idempotency, and Docker Compose for multi-service backends.

const techStack = {
  languages: ["TypeScript", "JavaScript", "Go", "Python"],
  frontend: ["React", "Next.js", "Vue.js", "Tailwind CSS"],
  backend: ["Node.js", "Express", "NestJS", "GraphQL"],
  databases: ["PostgreSQL", "MongoDB", "TursoDB", "Redis"],
  orms: ["Prisma", "DrizzleORM", "Sequelize"],
  platform: ["Docker", "Kubernetes", "Helm", "AWS"],
  cicd: ["GitHub Actions", "GitLab CI", "CircleCI", "Ansible"],
  tools: ["Turbo", "SST", "Playwright", "Jest"],
};

• Platform engineering: Reliable CI/CD, container orchestration, and cloud architecture for production SaaS
• Product building: Shipping and operating BlockQueue products for the African market
• Kubernetes: Deepening practice toward CKAD
• Open source: Self-hostable infrastructure tooling under blockqueue

• Email: chukwuma.zikora@gmail.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chukwumazikora
• Portfolio: chukwumaijem.github.io

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.."