Ines Okafor

Course catalogue · 2026–2027

Introduction to Ines

Senior Backend Engineer

APIs and services that stay up when traffic doesn’t stay down.

Instructor
Ines Okafor
Location
Lisbon, Portugal
Status
Open to staff and principal roles from January
Prerequisites
Curiosity

Course description

I’m a backend developer with ten years’ experience in payments and civic tech. I like boring, reliable solutions and writing things down.

I work best in small teams that ship often and talk to their users.

Timetable

2021 → Present

Senior Backend Engineer

Northwind Pay

2016 → 2021

Backend Developer

Talo

Report card

  • University of Porto

    MSc Informatics Engineering · 2014

10
years building software
40+
releases a year
99.95%
uptime

Skills

  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kafka
  • APIs
  • Distributed systems
  • Observability
  • AWS