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SodiqDare.

Full-stack & platform engineer who ships fast and scales systems. 5+ years building production-grade software across fintech, edtech, and cloud infrastructure — London-based.

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Sodiq Dare
// about

A bit about me

London, United Kingdom

I'm a software engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and building scalable web systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. I care deeply about code quality, developer experience, and shipping things that actually work at scale.

Currently at loveholidays in London, working in content engineering — building scalable systems for content delivery and platform tooling. Before that I was at Perlego, an ed-tech company, where I led architecture decisions and built high-throughput processing systems on the B2B team.

My background spans full-stack development and platform engineering — from React frontends to AWS infrastructure, serverless architectures, and microservices. I'm also certified in Terraform and Kubernetes.

Certifications
tf
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
k8
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CNCF
aws
AWS Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
// skills

What I work with

Languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptGraphQLSQLCSS
Frameworks & Libraries
Next.jsNestJSReactReact NativeNodeJSAngularMongoDB
Cloud & DevOps
AWSTerraformKubernetesServerlessLambdaSQS / SNSGit
// experience

Where I've worked

May 2025 — Present
Current

Software Engineer

loveholidays
London, United Kingdom · Hybrid
  • Part of the Content Engineering team — one of the most AI-forward engineering teams in the business, focused on scaling operations through LLM-powered automation.
  • Architected a hotel content enhancement pipeline that scaled curated inventory from 2,000 to over 70,000 hotels, driving a 3%+ conversion uplift.
  • Built an AI-powered translation platform that cut localisation time from months to hours and reduced costs by over 90%, enabling rapid expansion into new markets.
Jul 2022 — May 2025

Senior Software Engineer → Software Engineer

Perlego
London, United Kingdom
  • Promoted to Senior SE (Feb 2025); led architecture of a scalable catalogue-processing system optimised for memory and CPU efficiency under high load.
  • Designed and developed quality front-end components for data products, improving the Business Admin UI for a seamless customer experience.
  • Contributed to a major internal framework for managing serverless applications and deployments, improving efficiency and scalability.
  • Worked on multiple integrations with external learning platforms to improve content availability.
Aug 2021 — Jul 2022

Software Engineer

Lendsqr
Abuja, Nigeria
  • Managed end-to-end cloud infrastructure for a digital lending platform serving multiple lenders.
  • Improved security with AWS networking — private networks and gateways to control access to internal services.
  • Managed infrastructure as code with Terraform to speed up new environment setup.
Jul 2021 — Jul 2022

Software Engineer

Apek Group
Canada (Remote)
  • Provisioned and managed cloud infrastructure on AWS for reliable, scalable environments.
  • Developed Lambda functions in TypeScript with SQS, SNS, and API Gateway triggers.
  • Built and architected frontend systems in ReactJS.
Jun 2019 — Jul 2021

Software Engineer

ObigTech
Lagos, Nigeria
  • Built reusable, testable APIs using NestJS, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
  • Created proof-of-concept prototypes and worked closely with product and frontend teams.
// projects

Notable work

01

Credit/Debit Management System

Comprehensive financial transaction system with a wallet microservice. Implemented a mutex mechanism to prevent concurrent transactions on the same account, ensuring financial data integrity under high load.

NodeJSSQLAWSMicroservicesMutex
02

Serverless Application Framework

Contributed to a major internal framework at Perlego for managing and deploying serverless applications across the org. Improved developer efficiency and standardised deployment patterns across internal projects.

TypeScriptAWS LambdaServerlessNodeJS
03

Catalogue Processing Pipeline

Led the design and build of a scalable system to process a large catalogue of content at Perlego. Engineered for optimal memory and CPU usage with high-throughput demands across the content library.

TypeScriptAWSPerformanceScalability
04

Cloud Infrastructure Automation

Built and managed cloud infrastructure as code at Lendsqr using Terraform, including private networking, VPCs, and security gateways. Reduced environment setup time significantly and improved security posture.

TerraformAWS VPCIAMNetworking
// contact

Let's work together

Open to new roles, contracts, and interesting conversations. Whether you have a project in mind or just want to connect — my inbox is open.

@
daresodiq000@gmail.com
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github.com/horlaarsco
in
linkedin.com/in/horlaarsco
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+44 (0)7732 082 002
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