Reuben

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I'm Reuben Alabi — a software engineer based in Lagos, Nigeria. Curious by default, adventurous by choice.

My home turf is the backend: Java and Spring Boot, NestJS, the databases, queues and payment rails underneath a product. But I'm not precious about the boundary — I build the React and Next.js frontends too, and I've shipped end-to-end more than once.

These days that means Glass Finance, a community finance layer where I'm Head Engineer — I shaped the architecture and shipped a Spring Boot backend of 173 REST endpoints across 16 domains, including an obligation collectins engine for members dues. It also means Drifto, an event platform I co-founded: as the sole backend engineer I took it from an empty repo to a live, revenue-generating product on AWS — idempotent payments, authentication and event management for 500+ users.

Along the way I've built Verrify, a property allocation and verification platform with PostGIS geospatial search, at Luxnet; the backend foundation for Resov at CSG Development; features for a government tax revenue system and a Lagos State tourism platform at CSDC Solutions; and full-stack client work with NDPR/GDPR-aligned compliance controls at Stalwart Crest.

What I care about: correctness, security, and keeping systems simple enough to reason about at 2am.