ines@lisbon: ~/portfolio — zsh — 120×40

ines@lisbon:~$ whoami

Ines Okafor

# Staff Software Engineer · Lisbon, Portugal

I make slow systems fast and confusing ones obvious, mostly in Postgres, Go and TypeScript.

Open to staff and principal roles from January

ines@lisbon:~$ cat about.txt

I’ve spent eleven years on the unglamorous middle of software: the queue that backs up at 9am, the query that worked fine until the table hit forty million rows, the deploy nobody wants to run on Fridays.

Lately I lead platform work at a payments company, write about database internals, and maintain pgtrace, a small tool that has saved a surprising number of on-call weekends.

ines@lisbon:~$ ls -la ~/projects

total 3

pgtrace
role
Author & maintainer
stack
Go, PostgreSQL

source ↗

ines@lisbon:~$ git log --graph --oneline career

  1. 5472dec (HEAD → main) Staff Software Engineer @ Northwind Pay

    Date: 2022 → Present · Lisbon

    Lead the platform group: payments ledger, event streaming and the internal developer portal. Cut p95 settlement latency from 2.3s to 180ms.

  2. cb7cbb4 Senior Engineer @ Talo

    Date: 2018 → 2022 · Berlin

    Built the multi-tenant data layer and the on-call practice that took incidents from weekly to quarterly.

  3. 4c542da Software Engineer @ Porto Digital

    Date: 2014 → 2018 · Porto

    Public-sector web services, from parking permits to the city’s open-data portal.

ines@lisbon:~$ echo $STACK

[Go][TypeScript][PostgreSQL][Kafka][Kubernetes][Terraform][React][Distributed systems][Observability][Incident response]

ines@lisbon:~$ tail -n 4 talks.log

  • [2024]Indexes you forgot you needed — Talk, PGConf EU
  • [2023]The boring guide to on-call — Essay, 38k readers
  • [2024]pgtrace reaches 4,000 stars — Open source
  • [2022]Speaker, GopherCon Lisbon — Talk

ines@lisbon:~$ ./contact.sh

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