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Joshua Olúwaṣeun Aminu Senior Backend Developer | Open Source | github.com/seun-ja | Blogs | GMT +1:00 |
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SUMMARYRust backend engineer with 6+ years of experience building distributed systems, fintech infrastructure, and AI-powered applications. Strong focus on performance, system design, and developer experience. Proven track record across OSS contributions, production systems, and LLM-based architectures (RAG, fine-tuning, and agent workflows).
EXPERIENCEOluseun Consulting — LeadDecember 2025 - Present
Fermyon Technologies, Remote — Software Developer - OSSJuly 2025 - September 2025
Unbox, Antwerp (Remote) — Senior Rust DeveloperNovember 2023 - November 2024- Designed and built modular backend services using Axum, Tokio, and PostgreSQL - Built verification systems with background workers for async cleanup - Integrated OpenTelemetry + SigNoz for tracing (payloads, latency, status codes) - Improved Postgres transaction performance (reduced latency by ~10s) - Built backend services for interacting with internal LLM systems HisFold, Lagos (Remote) — Lead, Rust DeveloperDecember 2022 - January 2024
Supra Oracles, California (Remote) — Rust DeveloperMay 2021 - August 2022
Gridlock, Bristol (Remote) — Rust DeveloperJanuary 2021 - March 2021
PROJECTSPhisherMan — A Real-time Email Phishing Detection Add-on — DemoPhiserman is an AI-powered email phishing detection system that boasts sub-150ms latency. To achieve this performance, I fine-tuned a lightweight model and leveraged Rust for development. Additionally, I designed and built a Local Cloud for AI inference during the testing phase, which is documented here. OPEN-SOURCE CONTRIBUTION & NOTABLE PUBLIC REPOSITORYRPC Agent | Spin | Clickhouse-rs | WifiScanner | LoadBalancer | Url shortener | Simple Audio Stream via WebSocket in Rust | AI & ENGINEERING TRAININGAI Engineering Bootcamp (10-week Intensive) — Andela
Embedded Rust Training — Ferrous Systems
EDUCATIONUniversity of Benin, Edo State, Nigeria — BSc. Banking and FinanceMarch 2011 - December 2014 |
SKILLS
Rust, Java, Python, C++, Kotlin, QLoRA Fine-Tuning, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), AWS, Digital Ocean, GCP, Nix, OAuth2, PostgreSQL, ChromaDB, SQLite, RocksDB, Linux, Docker, WebAssembly, GraphQL, NATs, Apache Kafka, RPC, Bash. LANGUAGESEnglish, Yoruba INTERESTS & HOBBIESChess, Music, Travelling, Football, Computers |