Olaolu
Olawuyi
Expert Software Engineer.
Focused on building high-performance, accessible software and scalable systems that drive real business impact.
Experience
I’ve worked on a handful of web projects over the past 14 years, some of which were for the following organizations:
Shopify Staff Engineer
May 2020 - PresentShaping the future of commerce and entrepreneurship – building software solutions for millions of merchants across the globe.
- Primarily working on web foundations – tooling, performance and setting applications up to scale
- Influencing teams and stakeholders across engineering on high-leverage technical investments that drive scale, reliability, and business impact
- Helping drive and shape initiatives that meaningfully improve conversion and deliver millions in incremental gross profit
- Conducting and monitoring several strategic experiments, refining experiences based on resulting metrics and learnings
- Identifying gaps around the org-wide infrastructure, drafting proposals and implementing solutions
- Mentoring engineers within and outside my team on best practices, software performance and advanced patterns
hellotax Lead Frontend Engineer
Mar - Nov 2019I orchestrated and developed the frontend infrastructure, design and functionality for hellotax's new web application.
- Crafted a scalable component library that enforced accessibility and fluency across the application.
- Built a multi-role user authentication system from the ground up with JavaScript.
- Implemented a client-side localization system for the entire app.
- Built a client-side multilingual routing system with solid navigation guards.
- Engineered fail-safe optimized utility libraries to minimize runtime errors and unusability in production.
- Implemented fast and reliable data transformation and diffing mechanisms on the frontend for our data pipelines.
- Delivered an overall fast, yet accessible and silky smooth user experience in the app.
Pixel2HTML Senior Frontend Engineer
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019I worked on a couple of projects for organizations and individuals as a frontend engineer.
- Built frontend applications for multiple clients. Most especially JavaScript and React applications.
- Rebuilt the company's marketing site initially written in HTML/CSS using React and Gatsby.
- Crafted, audited and improved design, accessibility and overall experience of products.
- Enforced healthy codebases, coding style and standards.
- Completed projects on time and delivered to clients accordingly.
- Communicated effectively with project managers and the team.
MOONDA Senior Frontend Engineer
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019I worked with MOONDA via Pixel2HTML to create the web experience for John Deere's ATU 300 product.
- Built a contest application from the ground up using React which enabled users of the product from all around the globe to post photos and share reviews about the product.
- Designed and implemented a cross-browser, IE 11 compatible marketing site for the product.
- Implemented internationalization on the website with support for over 40 languages.
- Implemented automatic locale detection (with proper redirection based on that) and locale-specific content filtering.
Conectar Lead Frontend Engineer
Jun - Nov 2018I led a team of developers through building multiple React applications into a single powerful online learning platform. I also re-engineered and designed several components on the platform.
- Designed and implemented a robust design system to ensure UI consistency across the application.
- Developed a messaging system with React, nearly matching the capabilities of Facebook Messenger at the time.
- Built a full-featured audio and video calling application using React.
- Optimized bundle size, reducing it from 5MB to a few kilobytes.
- Re-engineered the development workflow, achieving a 70%+ improvement in compile speed.
- Designed and built a React-based appointment scheduling system from scratch.
See the extended list here.
Projects
Links to some of my work can be found on olaolu.dev/work and details can be provided upon request via a scheduled demo call.