Stephen Adedokun

Software Engineer - Mobile & Web Engineering
Lagos, NG.

About

Highly accomplished Software Engineer with over 4 years of experience building scalable fintech, logistics, and SaaS applications, architecting robust offline-first synchronization and deploying high-impact mobile/web platforms. Proven ability to drive N1B+ in weekly orders for 300+ businesses through expertise in React, React Native, and TypeScript, consistently delivering user-centric, pixel-perfect UIs and optimizing performance.

Work

Ekode Mega Touch Limited
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Frontend Engineer

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

As a Contractor Frontend Engineer, I collaborated with product and engineering teams to deliver critical administrator portals, optimizing performance and enhancing user experience for over 100 administrators and agents.

Highlights

Partnered with product and engineering teams to develop and deploy the Postmoni and Nipostagent Administrator portal, empowering over 100+ administrators to manage transactions, track revenue, and onboard agents daily, significantly reducing reconciliation errors.

Optimized product performance and user experience as the sole Frontend Engineer, leading to increased daily usage and positive feedback from administrators, invited auditors, and teller agents.

Spearheaded the development of POS and agency banking solutions, ensuring CBN compliance and facilitating over N100 million in daily transaction volume.

The Makerstudio
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Frontend Engineer

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

As a Frontend Engineer, I played a pivotal role in developing Nomba's expense manager and an internal collaboration platform, focusing on enhancing user reliability and team productivity.

Highlights

Contributed significantly to the development of Nomba's expense manager product, implementing key features based on stakeholder requirements using React, React Context API, Tanstack Query, and NextJS.

Architected and implemented offline-first synchronization with Replicache on the Frontend, improving data reliability for users and businesses while reducing failed sync attempts by 90%.

Led development efforts for documentation modules, calendar integration, and a file management system for an internal 'Work OS' collaboration platform (Station), boosting cross-team productivity by 30% and enhancing communication with the chat module.

Mira
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Mobile Engineer

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

As a Contractor Mobile Engineer, I automated release processes, developed a versatile merchant app, and significantly enhanced app performance for businesses processing high transaction volumes.

Highlights

Automated manual versioning with Bash scripts, enabling 10+ production releases per week and ensuring consistent daily and bi-weekly updates for over 300 retail businesses.

Developed and shipped a versatile Merchant app for retail businesses, empowering 300+ stores to efficiently manage stock, track deliveries, and generate detailed reports.

Transformed Mira POS app performance by reducing response times from 3 seconds to 100 milliseconds, significantly improving user experience for restaurants, hotels, and bars handling N1B+ in weekly orders.

Vyrtual
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Software Engineer

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

As a Contractor Software Engineer, I collaborated with Product teams to develop the v1 of the Vyrtual Platform, enhancing user experience and optimizing app performance.

Highlights

Collaborated closely with Product teams to develop the v1 of the Vyrtual Platform, ensuring seamless and intuitive user experiences for a growing user base.

Spearheaded the development of a task management Kanban module, increasing user activation and retention rates by 20%.

Optimized app performance by refactoring and redesigning, reducing page load times by 60% and driving higher user engagement.

Ebidhaa
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Mobile Engineer

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

As a Contractor Mobile Engineer, I developed and maintained cross-platform logistics and grocery booking applications, ensuring seamless deployments and timely project execution.

Highlights

Developed and maintained cross-platform logistics and grocery booking applications using React Native & TypeScript, integrating real-time location access for users to track deliveries.

Managed seamless deployments for internal testing on Testflight & Android Closed testing via fastlane and Google Play Console, ensuring high-quality app releases.

Successfully delivered and implemented tasks in alignment with milestones and sprints, focusing on timely and effective project execution.

Zeddpay
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Head of Product & Lead Frontend Engineer (Founding team)

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

As a founding team member, I led product development and frontend engineering for a fintech platform, processing significant transaction volumes and securing funding.

Highlights

Spearheaded the development of an airtime-to-cash conversion platform, processing N11 million in transactions and securing $60k in seed funding.

Led the development of a new wallet system supporting fiat and crypto deposits, and a peer-to-peer marketplace, generating a transaction volume of N11 million.

Drove the development of a P2P marketplace for airtime exchange at vendor rates, creating new market and job opportunities for third parties.

myStash
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Frontend Engineer

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

As a Frontend Engineer, I built the initial version of the myStash Blog site and overhauled key mobile app features to optimize performance and retention.

Highlights

Built the first version of the myStash Blog site using NextJS, Chakra UI, and Strapi for the Content Management System (CMS).

Engineered and overhauled the play, pause, and delete money move feature on the mobile app, significantly contributing to optimal performance and improving app retention rate.

Languages

English

Skills

Programming Languages & Frameworks

React, React Native, JavaScript, TypeScript, NextJS, Swift, GraphQL, SCSS, Radix, Stitches.

Tools & Technologies

React Query, XCode, Flipper, Websocket, Zustand, tRPC, Cypress, Jest, Git, Fastlane, Google Play Console, Testflight, Replicache, Chakra UI, Strapi.

Core Competencies

Mobile Engineering, Web Engineering, End-to-End Testing, Production Support & Monitoring, Team Collaboration, CI/CD, Quality Assurance, React Native Performance Optimization, System Architecture, Offline-First Synchronization, Fintech Development, SaaS Applications, Logistics Platforms, User Experience (UX) Design, Scalable Solutions, Cross-functional Collaboration, Agile Methodologies, Stakeholder Management.