Emmanuel Watila
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Emmanuel Watila

maker ➝ building oss

building and maintaining breadroll 🥟

2 months ago

About

I'm a designer & engineer ➝ 🤓 who loves building oss, currently creating and maintaining breadroll, is a lightweight library for data processing operations in JavaScript, written in Typescript and developed on the Bun Runtime. 40+ GitHub stars and rising.

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Projects

2024

breadroll, is a simple lightweight library for data processing operations in JavaScript, written in Typescript and developed on the Bun Runtime. 40+ GitHub stars and rising.

Side Projects

2022

A simple open-source carousel component built using React, Typescript, and styled-components.

Writing

2023

The brain is a difficult undecipherable black box that has brought forth a lot of innovation; what makes it so efficient and yet prone to lags?

2020

A Medium Member Story and a story about mistakes I and some people in early careers make when designing or developing a product.

2020

I shed some light on patterns observed in Growth Hacking and UX Design that help build for better conversion and user retention, based on my ecxperience.

Work Experience

2022 — 2023
Brooklyn, NY (Remote)

Refactored websites Jekyll, SCSS, Javascript, and Siteleaf CMS (for CollabFund, CollabCurrency, & CollabHoldings). Built components for the Dropmark Web, and worked on the Dropmark.com anniversary page.

Worked on detailed micro-interactions on both client and internal projects using Next.js & Tailwind CSS

2023 — 2023
Remote

Building demo application to showcase Rowy use cases. Shipping UX improvement features like; Colored Select & MultiSelect Field Chips in Tables.

2022 — 2023
Remote

Delivered engaging copy ranging from website case studies, Awwwards blogs, social media content, and more.

2021 — 2022
Nigeria

Owned and maintained front-end features for various SaaS projects using mainly React & Typescript (EduTech, FinTech, Big Data, & E-Commerce)

2019 — 2020
UX Developer at GCAT Solutions
Nigeria

Education

2017 — 2023
Computer Engineering at University of Maiduguri
Nigeria

Focused on learning Software & Electronic Engineering, Software Development Processes, Computer Programming (C/C++), Computer-Aided Digital Design (VHDL), Mathematics & Statistics.

Volunteering

Certifications

2022

UC-ff41e994-6727-4756-8ed1-8fdeae920081