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Experience

My journey through various roles in the tech industry. Below are some of my most recent experiences

  1. July 2026 - Present

    Frontend Lead at Fantasy11.ng

    I lead frontend development at Fantasy11.ng, an English Premier League fantasy football platform serving 10,000+ active users. I built the frontend for squad selection, live player stats, and league management, while using user behaviour to guide UX improvements focused on engagement and retention.

    • Fantasy sports
    • Squad management
    • Player statistics
    • Private leagues
  2. December 2024 - Present

    Software Engineer at CodeBlock

    Engineered and Implemented a Bulk Optical Character Recognition tool with real time status tracking, multi-engine support (GoogleOCR/Transkribus/Tesseract) and ability to transcribe 1000+ pages automatically with <1% error rate

    • Optical character recognition
    • Document processing
    • Workflow automation
  3. May 2024 - November 2024

    GSOD Mentor at Wikimedia Foundation

    Served as Community Support Mentor for Wikimedia during the 2024 Google Season Of Docs, I assisted the technical writer by answering their questions, reviewing their work, and providing mentorship and guidance.

    • Open source
    • Technical documentation
    • Developer mentorship
  4. December 2023 - March 2024

    Core Contributor @BUB2.toolforge.org

    During my time with Outreachy, I enhanced the functionality of bub2.toolforge.org, a tool designed to transfer books from public libraries like Google Books and Punjab Digital Library to Internet Archive and the Wikimedia ecosystem. Developed for Wikimedia Tool Labs.

    • Digital archives
    • Document pipelines
    • API integrations
  5. February 2023 - January 2024

    Software Engineer at BLK Labs

    Developed and maintained various applications including E-commerce platforms, real estate solutions, and marketing websites, enhancing client experiences and driving business growth.

    • Ecommerce
    • Property platforms
    • Web applications
  6. November 2022 - January 2023

    Frontend Engineer at Coresight Research

    Led the Frontend Team to develop Store-Intelligence-Platform (SIP) - a product that harnesses tableau-API to display US Stores trend from ChainXY using graphical charts and dashboards

    • Retail intelligence
    • Data visualization
    • Analytics dashboards
  7. October 2021 - November 2022

    Frontend Engineer at iBCScorp

    Co-Led the Frontend Team for IBCSCORP , collaborating with company Designer , Product Manager and other stakeholders to deliver a number of products from start to successful completion

    • User interfaces
    • Team leadership
    • Product delivery
  8. August 2021 - August 2021

    Frontend Engineer @ HNG

    Worked with a team of developers to build ZuriChat - a messaging app for organizations and professionals used to connect and collaborate remotely. Also proposed and implemented scalable solutions to various issues identified within ZuriChat

    • Messaging
    • Collaboration tools
    • User interfaces
  9. September 2017 - November 2021

    Core Member at GDSC (Imo State University Chapter)

    I participated in Community Outreach programs where we encouraged students to develop their tech skills. This is achieved with corporation from our Schools Academia on one end, and experienced software engineers on the other providing technical resources and support.

    • Developer communities
    • Technical education
    • Community outreach