Kafui Akpalu

Built Afi, a robust payment platform facilitating commercial transactions between North American and Sub-Saharan African businesses. Leading Development in Django backend development, DevOps, scalability, monitoring and feature maintenance of the platform which has over 40,000 users and 50,000 daily monetary transactions.

Led the development of Payglobal, a fintech platform facilitating seamless money transfers from the UK to Ghana. Garnered a user base of 8,000 individuals, resulting in an average monthly remittance of 70,000 pounds to Ghana Android team lead, spearheading DevOps initiatives, Contributing to scalable software and network architecture design.

Headed engineering initiatives for 3 years, developing a HIPAA-compliant patient information storage platform serving 1,000 requests/second across 5 hospitals and pioneering software tools for early detection of health risks like postpartum hemorrhaging. Lead android design and development team building the health provider application, integrating third party APIs, and working with the android SDK.

Led the team to build a digital educational platform comprising a suite of different android applications each contextualized to an aspect of the Ghanaian educational curriculum as an educational product for kids. Application served over 3,000 users comprising teachers, students, and parents and 250 schools. Lead the development of the platform for react web and android mobile. Also built portals in react for educational content management and built DevOps processes for deployment and monitoring.

Helped deploy and offered support for Google Apps Services (Gmail, Gchat, GDocs, Gsites, Gwave, Ggroups, Gbuzz, Google+) for Valley View University Faculty, Staff and Students. Managed studet’s Google Apps Accounts for the Entire Valley View University and performed task such as Accounts Creation, Password retrieval and reset, accounts permissions managements.