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Abdulrahman Iliyasu Illo

Software Engineer at BlackRock

Hi, I'm Abdul, a software engineer designing and developing fast scalable enterprise application and distributed systems. 

Experience

BlackRock | Software Engineer, April 2022 – Present.

Developed email notification service to my team’s project. Developed and tested a document upload feature to my team’s project. Setup and managed application logs and alerts with Splunk and Grafana. Developed a feature to display “what’s new” after an application update to my team’s project. Created and deployed a microservice that storing user application preferences data.

BlackRock | Software Development Intern, November 2021 – January 2021.

Introduced event logging API, dependencies, and development tools to my team’s project. Integrated and tested event logging framework to my team’s project. Handled and managed event logs in appropriate Apache Ignite cluster.

BlackRock | Software Engineer Intern – Summer Analyst, June 2021 – August 2021.

Joined Aladdin Product Group – Software Engineering. Collaborated with my team to create a real-time detector status dashboard with Java Spring Boot backend and Angular frontend. Used Azure DevOps for tracking, building and deploying the project together with azure pipelines for CI/CD and Azure Boards. Used and learned the latest Agile methodologies.

Skills And Technologies

  • Languages: Java, TypeScript, MySQL, HTML, CSS, SCSS
  • Frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring AOP, Spring Integration, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring MVC, .Net Framework, React JS, React Native, Angular JS, Redux, Expo, EAS, Kafka, Grpc, Axios, Mockito, Junit, Jest.
  • Certificates: University Dean's Award, CCNA-1, CCNA-2, AZ-900

Projects

Here are some of my projects that i've been working on.

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Project Aza

Co -founded and CTO of a mobile app company that allows users to send, receive money and buy services in Nigeria.
Azanaija.com

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Fuel Station Booking App

Fuel station booking application with Spring Boot, Spring AOP, Grpc and Kafka. Features include: booking, price querying and queue management. GitHub Links: mobile-app, web-app, backend-API.
Backend - Github link

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Job Application/Filtering App

Developed a mobile application to filter and classify job applications with react native together with Google Gmail API.
Mobile App - Github link
Backend - Github link

fxects.com

JavaFx and CSS web tool for creating shadows and gradients, together with a colour tool.
fxects.com
Github link

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Queue Deck

Queuing management software for banks, hospitals and offices developed with JavaFx
Manager - Github link
Dispenser - Github link

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Cast App

Chromecast application with tv-remote like functionalities developed with react native
Github link

More can be found on my Github Profile