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Ebuka Amaefula

St John's

Summary

A software engineer and entrepreneur. Goal-driven strategic leader and decisive business professional brings track record of success in start-up companies. Outstanding background managing multiple products from ideation to market launch and profitable monetization. Strong entrepreneurial spirit, open mind, and willingness to take on new challenges that require patience and perseverance.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Founder

Owlya
03.2019 - 05.2025
  • AI-powered online assessment platform designed to detect and deter suspicious activity during remote exams
  • Ensures secure, privacy-respecting proctoring without requiring live human monitors
  • Delivers a smoother candidate experience compared to legacy tools (e.g., ProctorU, Mettl, D2L Browser Lockdown)
  • Eliminates the need to pre-schedule tests—real-time AI analysis flags anomalies on the fly
  • Bridges the technology gap in regions (notably across Africa) where secure remote-testing solutions are scarce
  • Balances fraud prevention with user privacy, avoiding automatic failures based on unverified flagging
  • Built to scale easily for educational institutions and training providers transitioning to online assessments

Lead Developer

NOVONIX
Halifax
09.2022 - 06.2024
  • As the first hire, grew the engineering function from 1 to 10 engineers—recruiting, onboarding and mentoring across backend, frontend and DevOps
  • Defined the end-to-end system architecture and coding standards that enabled rapid feature delivery while maintaining code health
  • Drove collaboration with government and industry partners, contributing to Novonix’s successful CAD $2 M funding for cathode & data-product R&D
  • Spearheaded a joint AI-battery-tech initiative with SandboxAQ, integrating machine-learning models into the data pipeline for predictive analytics
  • Established agile processes (Sprint planning, retrospectives), reducing time-to-market for new features by 50%

Lecturer

African Institute of Technology and Innovation (AITI)
10.2023 - 03.2024
  • Delivered lectures to undergraduate and graduate classes of varying sizes.
  • Facilitated discussion forums among students on topics related to course material.
  • Evaluated student performance through tests, quizzes, presentations, projects, or other assessments.

Senior Software Engineer

NOVONIX
Bedford
05.2021 - 09.2022
  • Promoted to lead the “Enhanced Data & Analytics Offering,” delivering a scalable analytics platform to external customers
  • Architected and built a modular, Angular-based frontend dashboard integrated with Django APIs for real-time battery testing insights
  • Designed AWS infrastructure using EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch and IAM to ensure 99.9% uptime and secure multi-tenant access
  • Mentored junior engineers in best practices (code reviews, design patterns, AWS usage), fostering a culture of high-quality code
  • Introduced automated load-testing and monitoring, improving system performance by ~30% under peak data loads

Software Engineer

NOVONIX
Bedford
06.2020 - 05.2021
  • Joined as the first full-time engineer to build out a brand-new data platform from the ground up
  • Developed core backend services in Python/Django, implementing RESTful APIs and data ingestion pipelines
  • Deployed microservices on AWS Lambda and containerised workloads on EKS, with data stored in S3 and PostgreSQL
  • Collaborated closely with product and QA teams to define requirements, write documentation and automate test suites
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions → EKS, Lambda) that reduced manual deployments by 80%

Tech Lead

MenaGet SPC
08.2019 - 12.2020

Web Developer

m5 Marketing Communications
St John's
12.2019 - 09.2020

Software Engineer

Mentic
St John's
12.2019 - 02.2020

Senior Web Developer

HandyCV
Bengaluru Area
04.2016 - 08.2019
  • Company Overview: HandyCV is a digitally sustainable job portal. My job responsibilities at HandyCV includes 1. Develop the entire backend using python django, postgreSQL 2. Worked with a frontend team of 3 in building the frontend with Angular 5 3. Setup task management using Celery and RabbitMQ 4. Managed the entire development team
  • HandyCV is a digitally sustainable job portal. My job responsibilities at HandyCV includes 1. Develop the entire backend using python django, postgreSQL 2. Worked with a frontend team of 3 in building the frontend with Angular 5 3. Setup task management using Celery and RabbitMQ 4. Managed the entire development team

Web Developer

Regalix
Bengaluru Area
05.2015 - 06.2019

Digital Marketing Consultant

Product Specialist/SME and Analytics Expert
Bangalore
03.2014 - 06.2019
  • Company Overview: 1. Implementation specialist, I help implement Google codes on Google's advertisers' websites and help them track their ROI using Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google Webmaster and Google Tag Manager. 2. Conducting training on Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Shopping and new Google Internet Marketing Products 3. Escalation Manager 4. Subject Matter Expert 5. Create Tools using Python, AngularJs, Angular 2+
  • 1. Implementation specialist, I help implement Google codes on Google's advertisers' websites and help them track their ROI using Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google Webmaster and Google Tag Manager. 2. Conducting training on Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Shopping and new Google Internet Marketing Products 3. Escalation Manager 4. Subject Matter Expert 5. Create Tools using Python, AngularJs, Angular 2+

Web Developer

Careergong
Port Harcourt
09.2011 - 09.2015
  • Company Overview: Headed the IT department for the Project Careergong Developed and managed www.careergong.com and www.opsmgroup.com Built Careergong Mobile Applications for Blackberry, Android and iOS
  • Headed the IT department for the Project Careergong Developed and managed www.careergong.com and www.opsmgroup.com Built Careergong Mobile Applications for Blackberry, Android and iOS
  • About Careergong careergong.com is a website where RECRUITERS post job vacancies, screen applications and search cvs . The registered JOB SEEKER views the posted job vacancies then the JOB SEEKER’s CV is compared with the job vacancy posted and the JOB SEEKER is informed of her skill deficiencies with regards to the job vacancy viewed with a list of TRAINING FACILITIES where those skills can be acquired. TRAINING FACILITIES/SCHOOLS are suggested to the Skill deficient JOB SEEKERS and the TRAINING FACILITIES/SCHOOLS can market directly to them.

Programmer

Nextel Global Solutions Nigeria Limited
07.2010 - 06.2011
  • Company Overview: I develop programs and websites
  • I develop programs and websites

Education

Master's degree - Computer Science

Memorial University of Newfoundland
10.2021

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Application

Bangalore University
01.2015

HND - Computer Software Engineering

National Institute of Information Technology
01.2010

Skills

  • Prompt Engineering
  • Artificial intelligence
  • System architecture
  • Agile processes
  • Cloud computing
  • Data analytics
  • Team building
  • Project management
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • OpenCV
  • LangChain
  • User experience
  • Effective communication
  • Mentoring engineers
  • Problem solving
  • Generative AI
  • Vuejs
  • API development

Certification

  • CloudU Certificate
  • Microsoft IT Specialist
  • Real Time Web with Node.js
  • Opencv Computer Vision 1: Python
  • HP LIFE e-Learning course on “Basics of finance”

Languages

English (Native or Bilingual), French

Awards

1st Position Web Designing Competition, 1st Position Web Design - Inter college technical fest, 1st Position Hackathon, 1st Position Coding and Debugging, 1st Position Coding and Debugging

Contact

  • Amaefulacj@gmail.com
  • Www.linkedin.com/in/ebukamaefula (LinkedIn)

Languages

English
Professional
French
Limited

Timeline

Lecturer

African Institute of Technology and Innovation (AITI)
10.2023 - 03.2024

Lead Developer

NOVONIX
09.2022 - 06.2024

Senior Software Engineer

NOVONIX
05.2021 - 09.2022

Software Engineer

NOVONIX
06.2020 - 05.2021

Web Developer

m5 Marketing Communications
12.2019 - 09.2020

Software Engineer

Mentic
12.2019 - 02.2020

Tech Lead

MenaGet SPC
08.2019 - 12.2020

Founder

Owlya
03.2019 - 05.2025

Senior Web Developer

HandyCV
04.2016 - 08.2019

Web Developer

Regalix
05.2015 - 06.2019

Digital Marketing Consultant

Product Specialist/SME and Analytics Expert
03.2014 - 06.2019

Web Developer

Careergong
09.2011 - 09.2015

Programmer

Nextel Global Solutions Nigeria Limited
07.2010 - 06.2011

Master's degree - Computer Science

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Application

Bangalore University

HND - Computer Software Engineering

National Institute of Information Technology

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