Joshua Olúwaṣeun Aminu

Senior Backend Developer | Open Source | github.com/seun-ja | Blogs | GMT +1:00

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SUMMARY

Rust 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).

EXPERIENCE

Oluseun Consulting Lead

December 2025 - Present

  • Built a cross-platform desktop email client in Rust(Tauri) with support for multiple providers, including Gmail, and custom IMAP servers. It uses PhiserMan for its email classification.
  • Implemented secure credential storage using platform-native keychains and optimised email synchronisation for large mailboxes.
  • Delivered introductory and intermediate Rust training sessions for university students and early-career software engineers.
  • Designed, developed, and deployed a health management platform serving students, medical staff, and administrators, streamlining daily healthcare operations across the organisation.

Fermyon Technologies, Remote — Software Developer - OSS

July 2025 - September 2025

  • Contributed to Spin (v3.4.0, v3.5.0), improving runtime and developer tooling
  • Built OpenAI SDK integration supporting multiple LLM providers (incl. Ollama)
  • Implemented HTTP/2 streaming support
  • Resolved recursion bug with potential infinite loop
  • Improved CLI exit handling and developer experience

Unbox, Antwerp (Remote) — Senior Rust Developer

November 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 Developer

December 2022 - January 2024

  • Led backend development using Actix, Redis, and PostgreSQL
  • Built real-time audio streaming services (WebSocket → AWS Kinesis)
  • Built the Android client with Java, introducing NATS messaging for event-driven notifications, sync with the back-end
  • Containerised and deployed services using Docker (DigitalOcean)

Supra Oracles, California (Remote) — Rust Developer

May 2021 - August 2022

  • Contributed to Layer 1 blockchain infrastructure (Testnet)
  • Implemented BFT consensus components and data propagation via libp2p
  • Built an Oracle POC extracting ETH price data
  • Integrated RocksDB and Kafka for distributed data handling

Gridlock, Bristol (Remote) Rust Developer

January 2021 - March 2021

  • Developed multi-threaded Rust systems and cryptographic components
  • Contributed to distributed key generation (DKG)

PROJECTS

PhisherMan — A Real-time Email Phishing Detection Add-on — Demo

Phiserman 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 REPOSITORY

RPC Agent | Spin | Clickhouse-rs | WifiScanner | LoadBalancer | Url shortener | Simple Audio Stream via WebSocket in Rust |

AI & ENGINEERING TRAINING

AI Engineering Bootcamp (10-week Intensive) Andela

  • Hands-on training in production AI systems and enterprise use cases
  • Built real-world LLM applications with a focus on scalability and reliability
  • Weekly live sessions with industry engineers.
  • Completed these courses during the bootcamp
  • LLM Engineering: RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector search [Credentials]
  • Fine-tuning models using QLoRA and evaluation against frontier models
  • Built multi-agent systems using LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, and LangGraph
  • Developed autonomous workflows (research agents, CV automation, assistants), [Credentials]
  • Production deployment of LLM systems and agent infrastructure [Credentials]

Embedded Rust Training Ferrous Systems

  • Explored hands-on implementation of the Real-Time Interrupt-driven Concurrency framework (RTIC)
  •  Introduction and hands-on implementation of Board Support Crates (BSC),  Peripheral Access Crates (PAC) and HAL implementations, including embedded-hal traits.
  • Radio packet transmission while tracking the Link Quality Indicator (LQI) metric.
  • Tools used: Nordic's nRF52840-DK and nRF52840-Dongle semiconductors

EDUCATION

University of Benin, Edo State, Nigeria — BSc. Banking and Finance

March 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.

LANGUAGES

English, Yoruba

INTERESTS & HOBBIES

Chess, Music, Travelling, Football, Computers