DEMI ALUKO

Architected and developed AI-powered backend services, transforming uploaded PDFs, DOCX files, and Google Docs into structured learning content, eliminating hours of manual lesson preparation for educators.

Designed and implemented an AI-powered Simplified English service, rewriting educational content in under 500ms and improving accessibility for over 1,000 ESL students across Canadian school district pilots.

Built a low-latency multilingual translation service supporting five languages, enabling inline content translation for students without interrupting their learning workflow.

Designed and integrated a Redis caching layer, significantly reducing third-party AI API costs and improving response latency for high-concurrency classroom workloads.

Enhanced system reliability by implementing PostgreSQL transactions and row-level locking, eliminating duplicate classroom seat assignments and ensuring data consistency during concurrent enrollments.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment, driving the full lifecycle design, implementation, and deployment of production features from concept through deployment.

Architected and built a scalable multi-tenant commerce platform from scratch using Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, supporting over 500 merchant storefronts with robust tenant isolation.

Owned the design and implementation of semantic product discovery, leveraging LLMs and pgvector for sub-second vector search across more than 10,000 catalog entries.

Designed and developed comprehensive REST APIs and backend services to streamline product management, merchant onboarding, search, and checkout workflows.

Built a distributed event delivery system with cryptographically signed HMAC webhooks, ensuring secure real-time delivery of checkout events to merchant applications.

Architected an asynchronous CSV ingestion pipeline with row-level validation, enabling merchants to upload large product catalogs independently with clear error reporting and no engineering assistance.

Contributed significantly to backend architecture decisions, enhancing platform scalability, maintainability, and long-term extensibility.

Designed and implemented a real-time collaboration platform using WebSockets, facilitating live message and financial information exchange for over $4 million in active transaction volume.

Optimized application performance by reducing the production JavaScript bundle from 4.5MB to under 100KB through advanced route-based code splitting, lazy loading, and asset optimization.

Enhanced backend scalability by redesigning database query patterns and implementing strategic indexing, significantly reducing query latency for high-traffic dashboards.

Collaborated on technical due diligence for company acquisition, improving code quality, expanding test coverage, and strengthening engineering documentation.

Built responsive React dashboards, visualizing complex demographic and economic datasets for researchers and policy analysts.

Developed a reusable component library, enhancing design consistency and accelerating feature delivery across multiple frontend applications.

Implemented server-side pagination and optimized data-loading strategies, reducing network payloads and improving dashboard responsiveness.