Blog | Timothy Nlenjibi

#Spring Boot

From Classroom to Cloud: My Journey from Learning Facilitator to Full-Stack Engineer

How I went from teaching children to read in Ghana to building Spring Boot APIs and deploying on AWS — and what every non-traditional tech career teaches you about engineering.

Aug 13, 2026Read More

Backend

Django vs Spring Boot: Building E-Commerce APIs in Python and Java

A deep technical comparison built from real implementations — Django DRF and Spring Boot both powering the same e-commerce API. Includes code samples, a load test, and a clear decision framework.

Aug 13, 2026Read More

DevOps

Zero-Downtime Deployments with GitHub Actions OIDC and AWS ECS

A deep dive into building secure, zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines for containerised Spring Boot apps on AWS ECS — OIDC trust setup, 9-stack CloudFormation IaC, and blue/green deployments with automatic rollback.

Aug 13, 2026Read More

Backend

Designing Scalable Backend Systems: Principles I Use Every Day

Scalability is not something you bolt on at the end. Here are the architectural principles and practical patterns I apply when designing backend systems that need to grow.

Apr 2, 2026Read More

Engineering

Why Full-Stack Development Matters More Than Ever in 2026

The debate between specialists and generalists never ends — but in 2026 the engineers who understand the full system have a decisive advantage. Here is why.

Apr 2, 2026Read More

Career

My Journey into Software Engineering

From writing my first PHP script to building cloud-native SaaS platforms — a personal account of how I grew as a software engineer and what I learned along the way.

Apr 2, 2026Read More

All Articles

#Spring Boot

From Classroom to Cloud: My Journey from Learning Facilitator to Full-Stack Engineer

Django vs Spring Boot: Building E-Commerce APIs in Python and Java

Zero-Downtime Deployments with GitHub Actions OIDC and AWS ECS

Designing Scalable Backend Systems: Principles I Use Every Day

Why Full-Stack Development Matters More Than Ever in 2026

My Journey into Software Engineering