Ridwan Balogun

Lagos State, Nigeria

+91 xxxx xxxxx

[email protected]

5000 followers

Timeline
Current Company
May 2022 - now
Senior Back-End Engineer (FinTech)
Pandar Resources
About me
Tech Lead & Innovator | Backend & Frontend Expert | Fintech Industry Veteran | Tech Content Creator | Passionate about Digital Inclusion & Empowering Young Developers
Education
- Ibadan grammar school
  2001 - 2007
  Ssce science
  Activities and Societies: Debate Team A played in the School Football Team
- Federal university of technology akure
  2010 - 2015
  Bachelor of engineering - be metallurgical and materials engineering
  Activities and Societies: Google StudentsTeam, Microsoft Students Team, Football team, Federation of Oyo State Students Union, National Association of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Students A Material Scientist and a Metallurgical Engineer
Experience
- Pandar resources
  May 2022 - now
  Senior back-end engineer (fintech)
  • Designed, developed and maintained RESTful APIs and microservices for e-wallet and cryptocurrency trading features • Implemented secure and scalable authentication, authorization and payment integration. • Applied best practices such as code review, unit testing, documentation and CI/CD to ensure high-quality code delivery and deployment. • Designed and developed vital services coordinated with frontend developers and produced well-tested, high-quality code. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams using agile methodologies to deliver user- centric products and features. Tools: NodeJs, ExpressJS, MySQL, Linux server, cPanel, WHM, Sentry.io, Git/GitHub, PHP, 3rd Party API Show less
Licenses & Certifications
- Aws essential training for developers
  Linkedin
  Aug 2023
  View certificate
- Become a cybersecurity professional
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Career essentials in generative ai by microsoft and linkedin
  Microsoft
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Introduction to prompt engineering for generative ai
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Learning the owasp top 10
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Ai for everyone
  Coursera
  Feb 2022
  View certificate
- Javascript
  Sololearn
  Mar 2018
  View certificate
- 2015 google online marketing challenge
  Google adwords certified
  May 2015
  View certificate
- Blockchain programming in javascript
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- What is generative ai?
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Foundational javascript security
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Android development for beginners
  Andela
  Jun 2017
- Introduction to data analytics
  Coursera
  Feb 2022
  View certificate
- Land your first cybersecurity job
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Introduction to artificial intelligence
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Mobile sites certificate
  Google
  Jun 2017
- Streamlining your work with microsoft bing chat
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Ethics in the age of generative ai
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Javascript, html5, css3, react, redux proficiency
  Pluralsight
  Nov 2019
- Selenium web driver with java (app/software automation testing)
  Udemy
  Jan 2018
- Analytics certification
  Google
  Jul 2017
- Learning amazon web services (aws) for developers
  Linkedin
  Aug 2023
  View certificate
- Become a full-stack web developer
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Cybersecurity careers and certifications
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Cybersecurity foundations
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Generative ai: the evolution of thoughtful online search
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Eslint: checking for syntax and logic errors
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Javascript: best practices for functions and classes
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Git essential training
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- The cybersecurity threat landscape
  Linkedin
  Jul 2023
  View certificate
- Design thinking for innovation
  Coursera
  Feb 2022
  View certificate
- The complete asp.net mvc 5 course
  Teachable
  Mar 2020
- Microservices with node js & reactjs
  Udemy
  Jan 2020
- Complete react developer (react, redux, hooks, graphql)
  Udemy
  Dec 2019
- The online marketing fundamentals
  Google
  May 2017
  View certificate
- Full stack development certification
  Udemy
  Jul 2019
- Adwords search certification
  Google
  Jun 2017
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Ridwan Balogun
  NYSC Ogun State Orientation Football Competition Winner NYSC Ogun Jun 2016 Led platoon 6 football team to win the 2015 NYSC Orientation Football competition
- Awarded to Ridwan Balogun
  Global AdWords Business Award Google Aug 2015 2015 Google Online Marketing Challenge Finalist-The Google Online Marketing Challenge is a global competition that was established to help prepare students studying courses such as advertising, e-commerce, integrated marketing communication, management information systems, marketing or new media technologies in the area of online marketing. Visit http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/ for more details.
- Awarded to Ridwan Balogun
  NUESA CUP 2014 Winners - Mar 2014 Winner of National Union of Engineering Students' Association Football competition