OOAbout Oshomo
I’m a hands-on engineering leader who turns complex requirements into rock-solid, scalable platforms—whether powering millions of tax filings or launching a space-booking marketplace. I bring deep expertise in Go, micro-services, and cloud-native architectures, plus a proven track record of taking ideas from zero to production.
What I deliver:
- High-throughput tax services: Architected and maintained mission-critical Go micro-services at Taxfix, ensuring 99.9% uptime with Kubernetes, gRPC, Kafka, and end-to-end observability (Prometheus, Grafana).
- Startup-grade product launches: As Co-Founder & CTO of Spacebook, led the full stack build (Go backend, React frontend, PostgreSQL), payment integration (Stripe), calendar sync, and AWS-based CI/CD pipelines—onboarding venue partners and early users.
- Performance & reliability at scale: Profiled and optimized core systems to cut latency by 40%, introduced caching and batch jobs, and built fault-tolerant patterns (circuit breakers, health checks).
- Cross-functional leadership: Translate tax regulations or market insights into clear engineering roadmaps; partner with product, finance, and DevOps to ship on time and on budget.
- Mentorship & best practices: Coach teams in Go idioms, clean architecture, test-driven development, and automated pipelines—raising code quality and delivery velocity.
- Compliance & security: Embed GDPR, data encryption, and vulnerability scanning into the SDLC, keeping customer trust front and center.
Why I stand out:
- I thrive at the intersection of technical depth and business impact—building systems that not only work flawlessly but also drive revenue and regulatory compliance.
- My entrepreneurial lens means I obsess over unit economics, product–market fit, and pragmatic pivots when needed.
If you need a leader who can own end-to-end architecture, coach your team to excellence, and deliver reliable, high-performance platforms, let’s talk.
English
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Taxfix SE,Staff Software Engineer, Tax Platform TeamAugust 2020 - Today (5 years and 10 months)Berlin, GermanyArchitect & Implement Core Tax Services: Lead the design and development of scalable, production-grade micro-services in Go powering the company’s tax calculation and filing engine, handling high throughput and strict accuracy requirements.Distributed Systems & Reliability: Drive the architecture of resilient, fault-tolerant systems using Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC and Kafka; implement health checks, circuit breakers, and observability (Prometheus, Grafana) to ensure 99.9% uptime.Performance Optimization: Profile and tune critical code paths to reduce end-to-end latency by up to 40%; introduce caching strategies and batch processing to improve service throughput.Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with product managers, tax experts, and DevOps to translate evolving regulatory requirements into robust software features; lead design reviews and align on API contracts.Mentorship & Best Practices: Coach and mentor a distributed team of 6+ engineers in Go idioms, test-driven development, code reviews, and clean architecture principles; champion CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI) and automated testing to accelerate delivery.Compliance & Security: Ensure all platform components adhere to GDPR and local tax authority regulations; implement secure coding practices, data encryption, and vulnerability scanning as part of the SDLC.
- Spacebook,Co-Founder & CTOAugust 2016 - May 2023 (6 years and 9 months)Lagos, NigeriaBuilt & Scaled the Platform: Co-founded an end-to-end online marketplace for booking event halls, shared apartments, and unique spaces; led the full technology strategy from concept through launch.Technical Leadership: Architected and implemented a microservices-based backend in Go, with a React front end and PostgreSQL datastore; deployed on AWS with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable releases.Team & Process: Recruited and mentored a cross-functional engineering team; established agile workflows, automated testing, code reviews, and observability (Prometheus, Grafana) to maintain high code quality and velocity.Core Features & Integrations: Designed booking workflows, availability calendars (Google Calendar, iCal sync), secure payment integration (Stripe), and host management dashboards; optimized for performance and usability.Growth & Partnerships: Collaborated with marketing to onboard dozens of venue partners; implemented referral programs and SEO/SEM campaigns that drove early user adoption and repeat bookings.Compliance & Security: Ensured GDPR compliance, data encryption at rest and in transit, and regular security audits as part of the SDLC.Business Outcome & Learnings: Managed technical budget and vendor relationships; when revenue targets proved unattainable, led a structured wind-down of the product in 2023, extracting key insights on market validation, unit economics, and product-market fit.
- trivago,Software EngineerSeptember 2018 - July 2020 (1 year and 10 months)04 Leipzig, GermanyAt trivago, I am responsible for bug fixes and improvement of the trivago ExpressBooking platform whose sole purpose is to help advertisers turn clicks into bookings for free by enabling travellers to instantly book with them from any device, with support for multiple locales and also support for near all payment providers. The tools I mostly used were PHP , NodeJS, Symphony , MySQL, React, Redux, GraphQL, Hashicorp (Vault, Consul, Nomad), Core-DNS, Traefik, Bitbucket, JIRA.
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Education
- M.Sc. in Computer ScienceGeorgia Institute of Technology2024M.Sc. in Computer Science
- B.Sc.University of Nigeria2013B.Sc.