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.
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Laravel developer in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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.
Six years of shipping PHP and Laravel to production, from a factory floor in Nigeria to the Quayside in Newcastle.
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, while finishing an MSc in Data Science at Sunderland.
AWS Certified. On-site, hybrid or remote. Get in touch
Work
Scroll into the cave. 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.com
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 | Sunderland | 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 |
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- Based in
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Laravel since
- 2018
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Ifeanyichukwu Izuegbu writes Laravel for a living and has done since 2018. He likes the unglamorous parts: schema design, queues that retry properly, the payment callback at three in the morning. He builds with Vue and Tailwind on the front, MySQL underneath and AWS around it.
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. Drag it, or scroll, to turn it.
Newcastle upon Tyne
On-site, hybrid or remote