Tipa.me
Customers scan a code and the tip lands with the worker, not the till. I built the Laravel payment flows, the Blade and Vue front end, and I run it on my own.
Visit tipa.meIfeanyichukwu Izuegbu (Fin), full-stack developer and aspiring AI and data engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne
Full-stack developer in Newcastle upon Tyne, heading into AI and data engineering. I build the software that moves money and runs shifts.
Ifeanyichukwu is an Igbo name. It means nothing is impossible with God. I took it as a working brief.
Say it ee-feh-AHN-yee-CHOO-kwoo.
Or just call me Fin. That's my dev name, because I'm the big finisher. Big as in six foot four.
I'm the big finisher. Things I've finished:
- Bugs, squashed flat
- Project deadlines, early
- Merge conflicts
- The 3am payment callback
- Flaky tests
- Other people's legacy code
- Tickets nobody else would touch
- Jollof rice, every grain
- A full English
- …and this list
Six years of shipping full-stack software to production, from a factory floor in Nigeria to the Quayside in Newcastle. Next stop: AI and data engineering.
At BUA Foods I replaced a whiteboard with a Laravel system 200 people used every shift, and cut reporting time by 70%. At Easyspend I built the transaction API and its CI.
Today I run two products of my own, build Velkeep and lead development at 7Stars Events. I'm also finishing an MSc in Data Science at Sunderland, where my project runs on Formula 1 data.
AWS Certified. On-site, hybrid or remote. Get in touch
Work
Mind your head, mate. Scroll into the cave and each project comes out of the rock as your light reaches it.
github.com/finifyFynsset
Scheduling, attendance, tasks and payroll in one platform. Built from an empty repository: schema, Eloquent models, auth, queued jobs and the REST API.
Visit fynsset.comVelkeep
Guards photograph every asset on every shift, stamped with time, GPS and name. I took it from concept through architecture, build and cloud deployment.
Visit velkeep.comThe archive
- shopbcode.combCODE, retail for Adidas and Skechers
- adidas.com/ngAdidas Nigeria
- trappettigroup.comNigeria
- divjulesedu.comUK
- garbelife.comLagos
- climbonsight.caCanada
- asali.africaNigeria
- mobilegearng.com
- mrdheee.com
- 7starsevents.co.ukNewcastle
- conichomesandproperties.com
- brand-co.com
Feeling peckish? Grab a biscuit. There's plenty more where these came from.
Customers scan a code and the tip lands with the worker, not the till. I built the Laravel payment flows, the Blade and Vue front end, and I run it on my own.
Scheduling, attendance, tasks and payroll in one platform. Built from an empty repository: schema, Eloquent models, auth, queued jobs and the REST API.
Guards photograph every asset on every shift, stamped with time, GPS and name. I took it from concept through architecture, build and cloud deployment.
Awka to the Tyne
480 km
By road to Lagos, through Onitsha, Benin City and Ore.
5,000 km
Lagos to London by air, about six and a half hours over the Sahara and the Mediterranean.
3 hours
King's Cross to Newcastle on the East Coast line, through Peterborough, York and Durham.
| Role | Where | How | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Now | |||
| Senior web developer | 7Stars Events | UK | 2026 to now |
| Web application developer | Velkeep | UK | 2026 to now |
| Founder and developer | Tipa.me, Fynsset | Newcastle | 2024 to now |
| IT lead | Cokoon Creative | Remote | 2024 to now |
| MSc Data Science | University of Sunderland | Formula 1 data project | 2025 to 2026 |
| Before | |||
| AWS Cloud Practitioner | Amazon Web Services | Certified | 2025 |
| Senior backend engineer | Easyspend | Fintech | 2024 |
| Senior full stack developer | Malkain Web Design | Contract | 2023 to 2024 |
| BEng, 2:1 | Nnamdi Azikiwe University | Awka | 2023 |
| Senior web developer | Adidas Nigeria | Nigeria | 2020 to 2022 |
| National Diploma, Distinction | Federal Polytechnic Oko | Oko | 2019 |
| Automations engineer, IT lead | BUA Foods | Nigeria | 2018 to 2020 |
Play
Fancy a go? You're the queue worker: catch the tips and jobs, let the exceptions drop. Three dropped jobs and the worker stops.
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- Based in
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Shipping since
- 2018
- Reach me
Ifeanyichukwu Izuegbu has been shipping to production since 2018, front to back. Server side, it's Laravel, PHP and Node.js on MySQL or Postgres, with Redis queues that actually retry. In the browser, Vue, React and Tailwind. Holding it all up: Docker, GitHub Actions and AWS.
He's happiest in the unglamorous bits, like schema design and the payment callback at three in the morning. Now he's pointing all of it at AI and data engineering, with Python and an MSc project built on Formula 1 data.
He gathers requirements from people who don't speak code, then ships to them. Floor staff at a food factory, guards on a night patrol, a barista waiting on a tip.
Built on the Tyne
The Tyne Bridge, drawn in Three.js from a single photograph: a parabolic arch with a 3.15 to 1 span-to-rise ratio, sixteen hangers on each rib, and the river's reflection beneath it. Lovely bit of steel, that. Drag it, or scroll, to turn it.
Fancy my number? Drag the car to the chequered flag. Quick, mind: slowcoaches don't get it.
Newcastle upon Tyne
On-site, hybrid or remote