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kolawole O. - Remote full-stack developer

kolawole O.

Software Developer
Based in: 🇿🇦 South Africa
Timezone: Pretoria (UTC+2)

About

Passionate and skilled Full-Stack Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience in developing, optimizing, and maintaining software components and web services. Proficient in TypeScript, NodeJS, and frontend frameworks like React, Angular and Vue. Strong knowledge of microservice architectures, SQL/NoSQL databases, and best coding practices. Adept at working in fast-paced environments, continuously learning new technologies, and contributing to team improvements.

Work Experience

Full Stack Developer
Ovom Care | Jul 2024 - Present
React
Google Cloud Platform
React Native
  • -Developed and optimized Ovom's mobile application using React Native, Expo, Firebase,and GCP, enhancing performance by 30% across platforms.
  • Built reusable UI components, leading to a 25% reduction in crash reports and improved UX consistency.
  • Integrated Tailwind CSS, Expo Linear Gradient, and custom utilities, reducing UI implementation time by 40%.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally to refine user flows, introducing new features that increased user engagement by 20%.
  • Debugged, tested, and maintained a high-quality codebase, ensuring 99.9% uptime and strong adherence to agile methodologies.
Technical Lead
Ambee Services | Jan 2020 - May 2024
Node.js
Angular
Payment gateway
Twilio
Ionic
Google Cloud Platform
JavaScript

A South African ride hailing solution built for the safety of our clients and our drivers. We believe in both driver rights and rider rights and have tailored Ambee’s solutions to deliver what everybody is asking for in the ride hailing industry. ⇢ Develop using Ionic-Angular and Firebase UI Frontend apps and services with technologies such as ReactJS, Figma, GraphQL, REST, Ionic, Android, WordPress, NodeJS, Firebase Cloud Functions ⇢ The team designed Ambee’s UI Kit using Figma and Sketch and implemented best practices for testing using Jasmine and Cypress for Unit Testing and end-to-end testing. ⇢ Integrating third party services for security, chats, payment integration using Stripe, Firebase, Paystack, and other related services.

Projects

B.A.M.E
2021
React
React Native
AWS
Black African Media Entertainment is going to release a live and pre-recorded streaming platform that focuses entirely on originally created contents by the company or acquired by B.A.M.E through the overly talented African citizens. I helped the human resource department with the recruitment of the development team, and work on the design of cloud service architecture on Amazon AWS. Technologies Used: AWS Amplify, React Native, React, AWS Elemental MediaLive, Amazon S3, AWS Elemental MediaPackage and more.

Education

Federal University Of technology, Akure
Bachelor's degree・Physics(Electronics)
Oct 2009 - Nov 2014

Certifications & Awards

Top 1% Coders
CodersRank