Dakar, Senegal —
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Open to remote & relocation
Backend & DevOps Engineer — Dakar, Senegal

Mohamed Diallo

I architect distributed systems that serve 10,000+ people — and build products that tell the story of where I'm from. Founder of Jalo Enterprises. Currently crafting Demb.

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10k+Users on systems I run
65%API latency cut with Redis
0Security incidents since rollout
1stPrize — ACE Hackathon 2024
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Featured project

In development — built with Claude
Demb.
"Yesterday" in Wolof — Senegalese history, brought to life

A cultural mobile app that lets anyone explore the great figures of Senegalese history through rich narrative chapters, illustration-driven storytelling and multilingual audio narration — history you can listen to, in the languages people actually speak.

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Historical figures library

Curated profiles with chaptered, editorial reading experience

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Multilingual audio narration

Streaming narration with a persistent player and language selector

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Living animations

Rive & Lottie scenes that bring each era to life

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Premium content

Subscription gating with RevenueCat, auth & profiles on Supabase

FlutterDartSupabaseRevenueCatRiveLottieGoRouterjust_audio
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Demb
Figures of History
1920 — 1944 · Resistance
Aline Sitoé Diatta

The queen-priestess of Casamance who defied an empire…

1853 — 1927 · Faith & Legacy
Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba

Founder of the Mouride brotherhood, exiled yet unbroken…

Chapter II — The ExileWolof · 04:32
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Selected work

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UCAD Mobile Services

Official app of Université Cheikh Anta Diop, live on the Google Play Store. I architected and operate the distributed backend — student services, scheduling and campus access in one platform.

FastAPISpring BootFirebaseRedisFlutterKubernetes
10,000+ users
65% faster APIs
2–5 releases / month
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JaloSchool

Multi-tenant school management SaaS — billing, attendance, grading, communications. Designed, built, secured and hosted entirely solo under my startup, Jalo Enterprises.

AngularTailwindFlutterMicroservicesJWT / RBAC
Solo — zero to prod
4.5 months
E2E encrypted
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Campus Access Control

Institutional microservices system securing entry points across the entire UCAD campus — REST APIs, Flutter clients, delivered in under six months and running in production.

MicroservicesRESTFlutterPython
<6 months to prod
Full campus coverage
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RAG & AI Automation

Retrieval-augmented pipelines and LLM chatbots automating internal operational workflows at DISI-UCAD — from document intelligence to conversational support.

RAGLLMsPythonFine-tuning
Internal ops automated

Also on the shelf — an IVR voice server, an IoT smart home, real-time attendance analytics, and 2D / VR games in Unity & Flutter Flame.

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About me

Engineer by training, founder by temperament — I like owning systems end to end: design, code, pipeline, production.

I'm a backend & DevOps engineer based in Dakar with 3+ years shipping production-grade systems. At DISI-UCAD I run the infrastructure behind the university's official app; at Jalo Enterprises, the EdTech startup I founded, I took a school-management SaaS from blank repo to paying clients — alone.

My range is deliberately wide: distributed architectures, CI/CD, API security hardened to OWASP standards, and applied AI (RAG, chatbots, fine-tuning). Lately I pair-build with Claude as an engineering copilot — Demb is the proof of concept.

Bilingual French / English. Open to remote roles and international relocation.

MSc Computer Science — mention BienUCAD · 2024
BSc Computer Science — mention Très BienUCAD · 2022
1st Prize — Africa Center of Excellence Hackathon2024

Backend

FastAPISpring BootDjangoNode.jsPythonFirebase

DevOps & Cloud

DockerKubernetesJenkinsGitHub ActionsSonarQubeLinux

Data

PostgreSQLOracleMongoDBRedisMySQL

Frontend & Mobile

FlutterAngularReactTypeScriptTailwind

Security

OWASPJWT / OAuth2RBACOSINTAudits

AI & Data

RAGLLMsChatbotsMachine LearningFine-tuning
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Experience

Feb 2023 — Present

Backend & DevOps Engineer

DISI — Université Cheikh Anta Diop · Dakar
  • Architected the backend of UCAD Mobile Services (FastAPI + Spring Boot + Firebase) serving 10,000+ users on the Play Store
  • Cut API response times by 65% with Redis caching on high-traffic endpoints
  • Ran CI/CD pipelines (Docker, K8s, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) — zero-downtime deployments, 2–5 releases/month
  • Hardened APIs to OWASP standards — 0 security incidents since rollout
  • Deployed RAG pipelines & LLM chatbots automating internal workflows
2024 — Present

Founder & CEO

Jalo Enterprises — EdTech SaaS · Dakar
  • Built and shipped JaloSchool solo — multi-tenant SaaS from architecture to production hosting, no external budget or team
  • End-to-end secure architecture: JWT, RBAC, encryption, hardened deployment
  • Own the full product cycle: system design, development, CI/CD, monitoring
2024

Software Developer

Daral Technologies · Dakar
  • Delivered a complete business system — architecture, REST API, relational database, UI — meeting 100% of client requirements
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Contact

Let's build
something lasting.
mohamed19.diallo@ucad.edu.sn
Phone / WhatsApp
+221 77 326 59 12
Location
Dakar, Senegal — UTC+0