Kafui Akpalu
SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER at Techustle Limited.
Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University Africa
United States
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SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER at Techustle Limited.
Accomplished software developer with 6+ years of expertise, driving innovation across fintech, education, and healthcare domains. Pioneered development at Techustle, a Silicon Valley startup, facilitating $50,000 quarterly trade payments between North American and West African businesses. Founding Developer in GN Mobile Money a Ghanaian startup enabling diaspora remittances of $100,000 monthly to West Africa. Spearheaded the creation of Revo Educational Android Tablet software, benefiting 1,000 students and 100+ subscribed schools. Led a team for 3 years in healthcare, overseeing Android development and ensuring HIPAA compliance for an EMR system utilized by 4 hospitals, 30,000+ patients, and 380 healthcare professionals.
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Techustle Limited.
SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
December 2018 - Present
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.
GN Mobile Money Limited
SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
January 2017 - November 2018
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.
Peach Health Limited
SENIOR ANDROID DEVELOPER
October 2015 - April 2016
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.
Revo Education Limited
CTO
May 2015 - August 2016
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.
GOOGLE STUDENT AMBASSADOR
October 2013 - December 2014
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.
Education
Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Graduating in 2025
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AWS
Machine Learning
Python
Cloud
Django
DevOps
Kotlin