About

Akeem Boatswain is a highly experienced Senior Backend Engineer with over 9 years of experience designing and developing scalable systems. He is currently working at Adobe as a Senior Backend Engineer. Akeem is skilled in Elixir, Phoenix, JavaScript, React, Elm, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, C#, ASP.NET, Angular, and Node.js. Akeem has an impressive work history, having worked at Taskstream as an Application Architect and Lead Software Developer. During his time at Taskstream, Akeem led the adoption effort of Elixir and Postgres as the primary technology stack for the company. He trained all teams in New York and India on Elixir and collaborated on the Watermark Platform product using primarily Elixir, Phoenix, and Postgres. Akeem also designed and/or built enterprise-level concerns across all platforms in the 6 merged companies that comprised Watermark. He managed and supported 5 offshore India teams to facilitate their contribution to all platforms and performed code reviews to maintain a high level of code quality. Akeem collaborated with management and product owners to ensure a good balance of business needs along with technology health and mentored and increased development skills of all engineering teams. Akeem also led a team of 6 to convert the Angular front end of the Aqua platform to React and extended and added new features to the Aqua platform. He facilitated the agile process within the team and ran team retrospectives and dealt with internal or external problems affecting the team. Akeem represented the team at various meetings and collaborated with the architect (future VP of engineering) on shaping the technology stack for future development and the strategy for the upcoming task of uniting all platforms from future mergers into a unified platform. Akeem holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, where he graduated in 2008. Akeem's tech stack includes Backend, SQL, Postgres, dotNET, ASP.NET, Javascript, AngularJS, and Senior Software Engineer. With 15.03 years of relevant experience, Akeem is a valuable asset to any team.