I build the parts of a product that are hard to draw.
Six years in frontend engineering, from startups to institutions, across finance, healthcare, pharma and law. I lead web frontend at FCMB, where I build the bank’s payment and investment platforms.
How I got here
I started at Decagon in Lagos — an internship building WordPress themes and Python tools, then a frontend role shipping landing pages, dashboards and plugins. From there, contract work with Vertex Software out of Austin: vaccine platforms for Merck, patient sites for Austin Regional Clinic, ESG calculators for Dell and HPE Aruba, and the accessibility remediation that took the State Bar of Texas’s practice platform to full WCAG AA compliance.
Now I lead a frontend team at one of Nigeria’s largest banks, across payments, investments and the public web.
How I work
A design tells you where a product is going. It cannot tell you everything the product will meet once it is out — the empty state, the failed request, the person navigating by keyboard, the network that drops halfway through. That is the work I am usually doing, and the part I care most about getting right.
I would rather ship something that solves the problem and improve it than hold it back until nothing is left to find. Most of what I have built was still being made better after it went live. That is the job, not a compromise in it.
Work nobody paid me for
Some of what I am proudest of was unpaid. I have built for Immureg, an immunisation registry, and Data Initiative Africa. Nobody volunteers for a public health registry to fill a line on a portfolio; I did it because the people it serves are exactly the ones software usually forgets.