Sulaiman Dauda

Curriculum vitae

Software engineer, Essex, England. Nine years across web engineering and data, now building self-hosted infrastructure in Go.

[email protected]github.com/Sulaiman-DaudaLinkedIn

Experience

Roles

Sep 2024 to present

Web Developer

Sportsafe UK Ltd · England, United Kingdom

  • Lead development on sportsafeuk.com, a large WordPress platform serving a nationwide B2B customer base of schools, clubs and councils.
  • Delivered a 50% uplift in organic and campaign traffic and a 35% increase in conversions through UX refinements, streamlined navigation and performance work.
  • Rebuilt the GA4 and GTM implementation and fixed technical SEO, so reporting was trustworthy before decisions were made on it.
  • Introduced automations that cut manual work and improved customer response times.
  • Manage debugging, refactoring and upgrades in a live production environment with minimal downtime.
Oct 2016 to present

Freelance Web Developer

Independent · United Kingdom and Nigeria

  • Custom themes, plugins, integrations and static-site workflows, delivered directly to the client rather than through an agency.
  • Full lifecycle delivery: interpreting design files and product requirements, shaping architecture, then supporting the result in production.
Mar 2019 to Jan 2023

Data Analyst

Sheffield Nigeria Limited · Lagos, Nigeria

  • Reporting and analysis supporting operational decisions, working with stakeholders to turn business questions into things that could actually be measured.
Apr 2017 to Nov 2019

WordPress Web Designer

Credig Solutions · Lagos, Nigeria

  • Design and build of client websites.
Jul 2016 to Feb 2019

Project Administrator

Sheffield Nigeria Limited · Lagos, Nigeria

  • Project coordination and reporting.

Open source

Selected projects

Go · AGPL-3.0

Slipstream

Hosting control panel. Benchmarked 3.9× a commercial competitor on cached throughput on identical hardware, with the losing metric published alongside.

Go · MIT

Gresbase

Backend platform in a single binary. PostgreSQL as the only infrastructure; collections locked by default.

Go · Apache-2.0

Windlass

Docker Compose control plane that wraps the real docker compose. Privilege boundary enforced by a lint rule at build time.

TypeScript · MIT

Tidetime

Self-hosted appointment scheduling. Next.js and PostgreSQL, with authentication written rather than imported.

Education

Qualifications

2023 to 2024

MSc, Applied Data Science

University of Essex, United Kingdom

2011 to 2015

BSc, Business Administration

University of Lagos, Nigeria

Technical

Stack

Languages. Go, TypeScript and JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL, R, shell.

Infrastructure. nginx, PHP-FPM, MariaDB and PostgreSQL, Docker and Compose, Caddy, systemd, Restic, Let's Encrypt, Cloudflare (Pages, Workers, DNS, WAF), Linux server administration.

Application. Next.js and React, Astro, Node.js, WordPress and WooCommerce at depth, Tailwind, Alpine.js, Hugo.

Practice. Benchmarking and load testing, performance profiling, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, supply-chain security including signed build provenance, CodeQL and dependency scanning, GA4 and GTM, technical SEO.