Started a podcast hehe
About
Ever-learning engineer with a passion for systemization, automation, and mechanical keyboards.
Work Experience
- Refactored the entire project's style system from emotion to use Stitches CSS-in-JS library to take advantage of Server Side Rendering and avoiding layout shifts.
- Rebuilt platform’s project builder which resulted in users creating more detailed projects. This also saw an increase in project creation on the platform by 37%
- Assisted the designer as the sole frontend engineer in making User Experience decisions. Also wrote case studies on design thinking related to components used on the platform
- Led the development of the app from private beta to public beta. During this period, my primary focus was refactoring components
used on the platform and cleaning up design on the platform
- Built a web app for e-sport tournament organizers to create and keep track of tournaments being ran. This increased visibility for work teams and simplified workflows and manual processes by 87%
- Built a web app for gamers to join tournaments, manage active tournaments and build a community. This increased sign ups of tournaments by 150%
- Built out comprehensive and accessible component system for use at Sunami, using StoryBook JS. This gave the project a consistent design system.
- Worked hand-in-hand with designers to craft pixel-perfect and accessible products with Figma. Making accessibility-concious design decisions for users.
- Built the E-Judgment mobile app using Flutter to facilitate accessing court cases by Judges nationwide from mobile devices for ease of access.
- Built backend APIs for data storage and implemented authentication services using PHP and PostgreSQL. This increased data retrieval speed by 67%
- Built the SimpleCoins mobile app using Flutter to exchange cryptocurrency using local payment methods like mobile money.
- Improved work flow of the development by setting up a build system which checked for linting, making building smoother and reduced the chance of deploying breaks.
- Designed and oversaw the development of the ‘Rev’ freight mobile application for peer-to-peer item delivery
- Designed a workflow to increase user flow and User Experience by 50%
- Built backend and frontend models for use to speed up development of mobile apps by 20%
- Fixed existing UI problems in websites and web apps
Projects
In June 2023 Sebastian and I had a highly coffee-fueled conversation about building a space for avid readers to share talk and talk about their passion and that’s how the idea for Fluffyshelf was born. Taking on the task of engineering the product and co-designing is proving to be a rather beautiful experience
MailPigeon is a low-code tool for collecting form submissions
By providing an api endpoint, users can collect form submissions without having to create backend structures to support that. With analytics, users can analyze the data being submitted and make informed decisions
Keeping our customers happy one bid at a time with our easy-to-use bidding system, it's never been easier to score a great deal on fashion.
Design now, create systems later. Create text style guide in Figma from designs easily with two clicks of your mouse.
A podcast created by me, Desmond Sofua, talking about building in public
Side Projects
Beautifully designed components that you can copy and paste into your apps. Accessible. Customizable. Open Source. Styled with Tailwind CSS
A resume builder, inspired by the design of Jon Dang
A rust app (my very first try at rust), a web crawler, that goes through www.zubzz.com/recommendations to get all restaurants listed on there, categorized by type of recommendation, ie, Breakfast, Lunch, etc.
-Designed and built an AR lens for Snapchat users to keep them engaged with the event after the physical event
-Built an in-house form collection system for the Spawn Campfire event for gamers
-Built the Spawn Campfire website experience, along with interactions and storytelling