Portrait of Chukwuma Zikora

I'm Chukwuma Zikora.

I build software - and the systems that keep it running.

I'm a senior software engineer based in Nigeria with over a decade of experience shipping full-stack products. Along the way I've taken on the work that sits around the application layer: CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployment, containerised services, and the automation that keeps releases reliable.

At ShiftHealth, I design and maintain the deployment infrastructure for a healthcare automation platform - GitHub Actions, Docker, and AWS Serverless. That same ownership shows up in other products I've shipped: as founder of BlockQueue Systems I've shipped Property Governors and FirmLyt end-to-end, from application architecture through cloud infrastructure and production pipelines.

I also publish self-hostable infrastructure tooling under the BlockQueue organisation on GitHub - email orchestration, job queues, and webhook delivery - built to the same standards I use in commercial systems. Day to day I work across TypeScript, Node.js, React/Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI systems like GitHub Actions and GitLab CI. I'm currently studying for the CKAD to deepen my Kubernetes practice.

Outside of engineering I game and read, which keeps me curious when the terminal gets quiet. Thanks for stopping by - feel free to reach out if you want to collaborate or just talk shop.