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Dana Okafor

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Senior Backend Engineer
Berlin, Germany Eligible to work across the EU
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About me

I build the boring, load-bearing parts of payment systems — the queues, the idempotency, the migrations that can't drop a transaction. Nine years in, I still care most about the systems nobody notices because they just work. I'm looking for a staff-level backend role where reliability is treated as a feature, not an afterthought.

Experience
Senior Backend Engineer · Kestrel Pay
2021 – 2025 · Berlin
Corroborated
Led the migration to event-driven architecture across four payment services — the design and the call to sequence it behind a feature flag were mine.
Creator & maintainer · flowqueue (OSS)
2020 – present
Artifact-backed
A dependable job queue used in production by several teams — 2.1k★, MIT-licensed, public commit history.
5 years building distributed backend systems
self-stated span · shown as-is
Inconsistent
My CV says 5.0 yrs; my linked GitHub shows 3.2 yrs of public activity. I left both visible rather than round one off — happy to walk through it. see the note →
What people who worked with me say
“Dana led the event-driven migration across four payment services. It was Dana's design and Dana's call to sequence it behind a feature flag. I'd work with Dana again without hesitating.”
MA
Maria Alvarez
former Engineering Manager, Kestrel Pay · 6 Jul 2026
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“The person you want on the incident bridge at 3am — calm, methodical, and always has the runbook. Dana makes the systems around them more reliable.”
SO
Sam Okonkwo
Staff Engineer, Kestrel Pay · 4 Jul 2026
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