senior frontend engineer
EST. 2018 · LAGOS
I design and scale complex web applications — the kind with 10,000+ synced records, multi-step data wizards, and real users who can't afford downtime.
At Babban Gona I lead frontend on AFaaS, an agricultural SaaS platform delivering Power BI–level analytics to 2,000+ farmers daily across Nigeria. Before that, four years at Stransact (RSM Nigeria) shipping products that replaced expensive subscriptions, paper processes, and slow workflows.
My happy place: turning a vague business requirement into an architecture that's still maintainable two years later.
2020 — 2026
P–01 · Babban Gona · 2025—
A data-driven dashboard service inside Babban Gona's agricultural SaaS platform. Farmers generate real-time analytical reports from on-farm activities — Power BI–level visualization, built in Next.js.
2,000+ farmers daily · FCP −1.5s · bundle −25%
P–02 · Stransact · 2022—2025
A time & expense tracker I led from internal tool to multi-tenant SaaS. Replaced the company's Zoho stack entirely and became the backbone of productivity reporting.
Cut subscription costs by 80%+
P–03 · Healthcare · Stransact
Critical components for a patient services platform — rebuilt the appointment flow so booking went from a five-minute chore to an under-two-minute task.
Booking time: 5 min → under 2 min
P–04 · One Purse Inc. · 2024
Web storefront and full admin console for a US e-commerce product — built end-to-end as the sole frontend engineer, working remotely from Lagos with a distributed team.
Solo frontend build · web + admin
P–05 · Personal · 2026
An Apple-ecosystem-style universal clipboard, except it works on Windows too. A Next.js PWA that shares text across all my devices instantly — built because the feature I wanted didn't exist.
Cross-platform PWA · real-time sync
FULL CV ON REQUEST
Polyrepo systems, multi-tenant SaaS, design systems, and component APIs (like AdvancedDataTable) adopted across 15+ modules.
Code-splitting, bundle analysis, and rendering strategy. −25% bundle size, −1.5s FCP, +50% app performance on past products.
Took coverage from 10% to 80% with Jest + Cypress E2E pipelines, GitHub Actions, and Docker/Kubernetes workflows.
Comfortable across the line — Laravel, InertiaJS, MySQL, REST APIs — so frontend decisions account for the whole system.
React Native rebuilds (iPaySuite) and PWA-first thinking for users on unreliable networks.
Storybook adoption, code review culture, pair programming, and coding standards that cut review turnaround by 40%.
Have a product that needs to scale, a dashboard drowning in data, or a frontend that's slower than it should be? Tell me about it — I reply within 24 hours.
Prefer email?akerele.james1699@gmail.com