Emmanuel Watila
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Emmanuel Watila

designer & engineer in Nigeria, He/Him

working on open source projects

A month ago

About

I’m an engineer with the heart of founder exploring vast areas of technology applications, designing brands and making a difference by developing powerful solutions.

Contact

Twitter
Medium
LinkedIn

Side Projects

2022

A Simple Carousel open source component built using React, Typescript, and styled-components, built to be as composable as possible. Feel free to check it out.

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 — Now
Brooklyn, NY (Remote)

Refactored existing Jekyll / Liquid, HTML, SCSS and Javascript source code using Siteleaf for content delivery.

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 — Now
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

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