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AhmadDev

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Full-stack engineer shipping production systems across edtech, fintech, AI and consumer platforms for teams in the UK, Canada and Nigeria. Payment infrastructure, real-time data pipelines and LLM-integrated products serving thousands of users.

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Experience

  1. Feb 2026 – May 2026

    Remote contract, Toronto

    HEAD

    Software / Design Engineer at Wealthbeat

    • Built the core design system from scratch using Figma, Storybook, and React; standardized color tokens, spacing, and accessible components across web and mobile surfaces.
    • Ran sprint planning and technical reviews for a 5-person engineering team, establishing automated linting and component testing workflows to catch visual bugs before staging.
    • Joined founders in technical feasibility discussions with investors to evaluate architecture, performance trade-offs, and feature timelines ahead of seed fundraising.
    • Rewrote complex client-side state logic and split heavy bundles on the web app, cutting initial page load times on low-end mobile devices.
  2. Apr 2024 – Jan 2026

    Remote, London

    HEAD~1

    Software Engineer at Orion Softwares

    • Maintained and extended the Next.js frontend and Express/Node.js backend for an internal inventory system handling multi-region stock data.
    • Profiled slow database calls in PostgreSQL, adding indexes and rewriting nested queries to drop inventory search latencies from several seconds to sub-200ms.
    • Integrated Stripe payment processing for event ticketing; added idempotency keys and retry logic to webhooks to avoid duplicate charges on dropped network connections.
    • Worked across teams of data and QA engineers to pipe transaction records into an internal DataLake and connect it to a PySpark pipeline for catalog recommendations.
    • Wrote integration tests with Jest and Supertest across core checkout routes, reducing regressions in production deployments.
  3. Jan 2023 – Mar 2024

    Remote, Ontario

    HEAD~2

    Software Engineer at Actualyz

    • Built client analytics dashboards in React and Node.js, replacing weekly manual CSV exports with automated data views.
    • Added a Redis caching layer in front of frequently queried financial reporting endpoints, reducing backend database load during peak market hours.
    • Implemented auth flows using AWS Cognito, JWTs, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to ensure tenant data isolation across client tiers.
    • Built the responsive web app for 2,500+ monthly active users, fixing CSS viewport issues and lazy-loading heavy chart components to keep mobile sessions stable.
    • Wrote Dockerfiles and configured GitHub Actions workflows to automate staging deployments on AWS EC2.
  4. Jun 2021 – Dec 2022

    Lagos

    HEAD~3

    Frontend Engineer at ARTSLAB Studio Gallery

    • Converted Figma design mockups into functional React components, collaborating directly with designers to iron out layout edge cases.
    • Fixed page speed bottlenecks on asset-heavy gallery pages by adding skeleton loaders, compression scripts, and image lazy-loading.
    • Handled responsive UI styling across mobile, tablet, and desktop views, reducing layout breakage and bounce rates from mobile visitors.
    • Hooked React components into REST API endpoints using Axios interceptors to handle network drops and show clear fallback UI states.

Selected work

7 projects

Things I have built and shipped, and what they look like to the people who use them. The screens are the real pages; pick a project below to put it on them.

welathbeat.com

Designfinance (fintech)investment and liabilities

Wealthbeat

AI-Powered financial health partner. Turn your finances into a clear, actionable financial future. Track everything in one place, from day-to-day spending to investments and liabilities, and get a real financial health score, AI insights, and personalized guidance to help you grow, plan, and achieve your goals.

Pick one to see it

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Stack

What I reach for
  • JavaScript (ES6+)
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • SQL

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Community leader

Building the rooms other developers grow in
  • PresidentLASU Tech Society2025 – 2026
  • Coordinator, AI/Robotics & Automation LabLASU Unipod Innovation Hub2026 – now
  • Lead OrganiserGoogle Developer Groups on Campus, LASU2024 – 2025
  • Technical LeadGoogle Developer Groups on Campus, LASU2023 – 2024
  • Co-organiserDevFest Lagos2023, 2024
  • Co-leadMongoDB User Group Lagos2023 – 2025
  • Mentor and judgeZindi Africa Hackathon
  • Open source contributorTanStack Query, Chakra UIHacktoberfest

Grew Google Developer Groups on Campus LASU to 2,500+ members, mentored 300+ students, and co-organised DevFest Lagos for 2,000+ attendees.

From the résumé

Community lead and organizer, Google Developer Groups on Campus, LASUSpeaker, DevFest Lagos, Student EditionPanel speaker, 2nd NACOS LASU Academic SymposiumTech lead, LASU TechX 3.0Technical team lead, Google Developer Student Clubs, LASUTeam lead, Arthurite Integrated × AWSCampus ambassador, Cowrywise Campus Ambassadorship ProgramHacker, Cavista Hackathon
Community lead and organizer, Google Developer Groups on Campus, LASU

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Education

  • Lagos State University

    B.Sc. Computer Science, CGPA 4.25/5.0. | Minor, data analysis & Enterpreneurship

  • Holberton School × ALX Africa

    Diploma in Software Engineering, graded 85.0/100.

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Honours and certificates

  • Zindi Africa × Microsoft Azure AI Grant (2023)
  • Google Premium Developer Grant
  • Udacity × AWS Voucher Grant
  • Google UX Design Certificate (2023)
  • Meta Front-End Developer Certificate (2024)
  • Meta Back-End Developer Certificate (2025)
  • Top 5 finalist

Say hello.

A project in mind, a technical question, or an idea worth building together. I reply within a day.