Emmanuel Gbavou
Emmanuel Gbavou

Senior Software Engineer | Full-Stack Lead | Cloud & DevOps

Actively looking · Member since 3 Oct 2026
Location
Cotonou, Benin
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
On-site / Full Time, Freelance
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a Senior Software Engineer and Full-Stack Lead with more than 10 years of experience building production web applications and SaaS products. My core expertise spans PHP/Laravel, Python/Flask, Vue.js, AWS, cloud architecture, and DevOps.

Since 2017, I have worked as a freelance engineer for clients across Europe and the United States, often on long-term engagements. I take ownership across the full delivery lifecycle, from product discovery and technical design to implementation, deployment, and cloud operations.

I have led architecture decisions, managed development teams, performed code reviews, and built scalable systems across e-commerce, healthcare, business management, social networking, and marketing technology. I am experienced in designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms, secure APIs, payment systems, real-time applications, and video processing pipelines.

I specialize in improving system reliability, performance, and delivery speed. My work includes migrating Laravel monoliths to Python/Flask microservices, reducing application response times by 60%, lowering CPU load by 36%, and reducing CI/CD test runtimes by up to 85%.

I value well-documented architecture, ADRs, automated testing, continuous delivery, and pragmatic technical leadership. I am seeking a long-term Senior or Lead Full-Stack position with a strong Cloud and DevOps focus, where I can contribute to product strategy, architecture, and high-quality engineering delivery.

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Application Hosting

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Collaboration

Communications

Experience

Career history

Senior Full-Stack Developer (Laravel) Consumedias

I develop a multi-domain Laravel SaaS platform that manages the full lifecycle of independent sales representatives, from acquisition through retention. I have shipped 252 features and produce structured designs and architecture decision records before implementation.

My work includes Stripe subscriptions and billing, VAT and company validation through SIRENE/INSEE, and onboarding automation using SMS and email workflows. I improved Pipedrive synchronization through batch processing, reducing CPU load by 36%, and reworked CI/CD testing to reduce runtime by 70–85%.

Technical Lead & Software Architect Wescoop / ScoopChat

I served in a CTO-level technical leadership role for a mobile social network, owning product design, architecture decisions, and most backend development across 22 repositories. I delivered video stories with AR effects, real-time text and video messaging, activity feeds, follower suggestions, virtual currency, and a digital store.

I migrated the application from a Laravel monolith to Python/Flask microservices, reducing response time by 60%. I designed AWS production infrastructure with ECS, high-availability MySQL, MongoDB read paths, Kafka and AWS DMS CDC, Redis, SQS, Celery, HLS video processing, Graylog, and New Relic.

Senior Full-Stack Developer & Cloud/DevOps (AWS) Facile Solution

I built approximately ten Laravel and Vue.js applications for business management, healthcare, distribution, automotive, and service industries. My projects included a multi-company ERP and point-of-sale product covering purchasing, inventory, sales, checkout, and invoicing, as well as a pharmacovigilance platform using MedDRA and WHODrug coding.

I owned AWS provisioning, migration, and operations across EC2, VPC, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, ElastiCache, SES, SQS, SNS, IAM, and Route 53. I also automated deployments with GitHub Actions, built HLS video pipelines, and implemented security controls, backups, and monitoring.

Lead Full-Stack Developer (Laravel) Ecom Codes

I led development of a suite of SaaS tools for e-commerce and marketing channels including Amazon, eBay, Instagram, and LinkedIn. I coordinated developers and managed AWS deployments for the product suite.

I developed an Amazon advertising PPC management platform using the Amazon Advertising API and automated daily performance reporting. I also created shared SaaS capabilities including Stripe subscriptions, multi-tenancy, roles and permissions, two-factor authentication, social login, and OAuth2 APIs.

Founder & Technical Director E-GBAVOU

I lead product design, software architecture, requirements gathering, development delivery, and production operations for client projects. I also manage development team workflows and conduct code reviews.

I have delivered secure APIs for a mobile rental-management application, an online CV builder, and an appointment and services booking platform built with Laravel and Vue.js. Products have been published on Google Play and the Apple App Store.

Mobile & Web Developer OPEN SI

I developed Android mobile applications using Java and built supporting backend services with Node.js.

This role strengthened my experience in mobile-to-backend integration, web development, and production application delivery.

Education

Learning history

Institut de Formation et de Recherche en Informatique (IFRI)

Master's Degree, Software Engineering

Master's degree in Software Engineering.

Institut de Formation et de Recherche en Informatique (IFRI)

Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering.

Collège Aupais

Scientific Baccalaureate (Series C)

Scientific Baccalaureate, Series C.

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