Hi, I am Adesina Hammed Hassan. I’m a Senior Software Engineer (Go/Golang) with 7+ years of experience delivering scalable, high-performance cloud-native systems for fintech, e-commerce, and open-source platforms. Currently based in Birmingham & London, England, I work at The Linux Foundation in California, where I design and develop core tooling that powers LFX services and supports thousands of users.

Throughout my professional journey, I have led backend teams, optimized system performance achieving measurable business outcomes like reducing search latency by 40% and improving system reliability to 99.9% uptime. I’m passionate about distributed system design, cloud infrastructure, and translating technology into business value.

Beyond my day job, I’m deeply involved in the Go community as the organizer of Lagos Gophers Community, which I’ve grown to become the largest Go community in Africa with over 2000+ members. I enjoy technical writing, speaking about Go/Golang, and mentoring engineers to help them grow in their careers.

I take pride in building robust, modular solutions that solve real-world problems, whether it’s processing 200M+ product feeds for major e-commerce affiliates or developing tools that increase user engagement by 20%.

Technology Stacks:

  • Programming Languages: Go/Golang, Zig, JavaScript (React, Next.js), PHP
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, ELB, ECS, Fargate, S3, EC2, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, IAM, Secret Manager), DigitalOcean, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Databases: DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, SQLite
  • Messaging & Queuing: RabbitMQ, SQS, SNS
  • DevOps & Tools: Terraform, Git, Observability (OTEL, Zipkin)
  • API Design: REST, gRPC, CLI
  • Architecture & Practices: Microservices, Monolithic, System Design, Logging, Metrics, Tracing, Concurrency, Distributed Systems

Talks & Events:

  • I speak and organize Go meetups in Lagos, Nigeria (Twitter handle: @GolangNigeria) on a monthly basis.

  • Gophers Lagos Meetup: May 20, 2023 — Go: Fuzz-Testing & Concurrency. Info.

  • Gophers Lagos Meetup January 21, 2023 — What is new in Go 1.20. Info.

  • Gophers Nigeria Meetup: Go: A Splendid 2022 December 3, 2022 — [I hosted and facilitated this event]. Info.

  • Gophers Nigeria Meetup: It’s Go Birthday November 13, 2021 — [I hosted and facilitated this event]. Info.

  • Gophers Lagos Meetup January 9, 2021 — [I hosted and facilitated this event]. Info.

  • Gophers Lagos Meetup September 19, 2020 — Dynamic Programming in Go at Go Meetup Nigeria. Info.

  • Gophers Lagos Meetup August 1, 2020 — [I hosted and facilitated this event]. Info.

  • Gophers Lagos Meetup February, 2020 — Getting Started with Learning Go Programming Language. At Go Meetup Nigeria. Info. Slides

  • Gophers Lagos Meetup December, 2019 — Designing A Basic Logging System in Go Application. At Go Meetup Nigeria. Info. Slides

  • Gophers Lagos Meetup. October, 2019 — Advantages of Adopting Go as your main stack ( with focus on application vertical scaling). At Go Meetup Nigeria. Info.

  • Flutter Lagos Meetup at ccHub January, 2019 — RESTful API and Local Storage Consumption in Flutter. At Flutter Lagos Meetup. Info.

Education:

  • University of The People, Pasadena, USA — Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, (April 2011 - April 2016).
  • Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt — Bachelor’s degree in Arabic Literature. (May 2017 - May 2013).
  • (National Institute of Telecommunication, Cairo, Egypt — GMDSS Certificate (October 2007 - October 2009).
  • Heliopolis Secondary Institute, Cairo Egypt — Secondary School Certificate, (2003 - 2005).