ines@lisbon ~/portfolio ❯ whoami
Ines Okafor
# Staff Software Engineer
I make slow systems fast and confusing ones obvious, mostly in Postgres, Go and TypeScript.
Open to staff and principal roles from January
- role
- Staff Software Engineer
- based
- Lisbon, Portugal
- uptime
- 3 roles
- stack
- Go, TypeScript, PostgreSQL
- status
- Open to staff and principal roles from January
ines@lisbon ~/portfolio ❯ cat about.md
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 ~/portfolio ❯ ls -la ~/projects
total 3
ines@lisbon ~/portfolio ❯ git log --graph --oneline career
5472dec HEAD → main
Staff Software Engineer @ Northwind Pay
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.
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Senior Engineer @ Talo
2018 → 2022 · Berlin
Built the multi-tenant data layer and the on-call practice that took incidents from weekly to quarterly.
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Software Engineer @ Porto Digital
2014 → 2018 · Porto
Public-sector web services, from parking permits to the city’s open-data portal.
ines@lisbon ~/portfolio ❯ cat stack.json
1{2 "stack": [3 "Go",4 "TypeScript",5 "PostgreSQL",6 "Kafka",7 "Kubernetes",8 "Terraform",9 "React",10 "Distributed systems",11 "Observability",12 "Incident response"13 ]14}ines@lisbon ~/portfolio ❯ tail -n 4 talks.log
- 2024Indexes you forgot you needed — Talk, PGConf EU
- 2023The boring guide to on-call — Essay, 38k readers
- 2024pgtrace reaches 4,000 stars — Open source
- 2022Speaker, GopherCon Lisbon — Talk
ines@lisbon ~/portfolio ❯ ./contact.sh
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