Full Stack Engineer · Lagos, Nigeria

Ajibola AkelebeẸ kú àbọ̀. Welcome.

I design and build products end to end, from the database to the last hover state, and I teach other engineers to do the same.

A full-stack engineer and designer based in Nigeria, creating for a global audience. I teach what I know and share what I learn.

Currently at

Bema Integrated Services,

EduPoint (Trinity University, Lagos) and

Lagos Data School.

7 years experience · 24 projects shipped

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Zora Market — Mobile App

Mobile Engineer — React Native & Expo4 months · 2026Live

Problem: Diaspora shoppers buy groceries on their phones, in short bursts, often on patchy connections.
Key decision: One Expo codebase ships to the App Store and Google Play out of the shared Zora monorepo, reusing the same TypeScript types and API client as the web surfaces so the two can never drift.

Case study →apps.apple.com ↗GitHub ↗

NEGOtivity | Street-Wise Clothing

Developer & Designer1 month · 2026Live

Problem: NEGO created a talent marketplace but lacks an online storefront dedicated to showcasing its clothing sub-brand, which visually and street-wise reflects its premium brand.
Key decision: NEGO has established a talent marketplace, with NEGOtivity serving as the clothing line representing that talent.

Case study →negotivity.com ↗GitHub ↗

JobHustles — Explore a world of career options

Developer & Designer3 months · 2026Live

Problem: JobHustles has been operated locally and, to some extent, without a dedicated online presence or comprehensive platform.
Key decision: To tackle this, a dedicated online platform — https://jobhustles.com.ng — was created, providing JobHustles with a robust digital footprint beyond its local, offline activities.

Case study →jobhustles.com.ng ↗GitHub ↗

Zora African Market — Web Platform

Full-stack Engineer — Web & Backend4 months · 2026Live

Problem: The sellers of authentic African goods in the UK are mostly small independent businesses with no storefront tooling of their own.
Key decision: Three Next.js surfaces sit on one Supabase backend and one set of shared TypeScript packages.

Case study →zoraapp.co.uk ↗GitHub ↗

Nego - Premium Managed Talent Marketplace

Developer & Designer3 months · 2026Live

Problem: The challenge was creating a secure, elite marketplace where high-value transactions and premium media properties remain protected while providing a "high-end concierge" user experience.
Key decision: Built a custom "Empire Wallet" system with Paystack-backed coin purchases and automated escrow.

Case study →negoempire.live ↗GitHub ↗

SwiftTransit

Solo DeveloperOngoing · 2026In progress

Problem: Sending a parcel across Lagos usually means a phone call, a haggled price and no idea where the rider is.
Key decision: One Expo codebase serves both roles, with the role chosen at sign-up and enforced by a route gate.

Case study →GitHub ↗

Mark_me — Bookmark Manager

Solo Designer & Developer4 months · 2026Live

Problem: Traditional browser bookmark managers are buried in folder trees, lack visual previews, don't allow intelligent search/tagging, and make it hard to quickly save links on the fly across different devices and browsers.
Key decision: Built a visual bookmark manager as a monorepo featuring a Next.js 15 web app, a Chrome MV3 extension, and a shared neo-brutalist UI library.

Case study →markme-app.vercel.app ↗GitHub ↗

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experience

2019 to now

2026Full-Stack Software Engineer (Frontend-Strong) · Bema Integrated Services

Building and evolving the user-facing product experience across the company's platforms, with frontend emphasis and full-stack delivery responsibility.

2026Software Engineering Trainer (Full-Stack) · EduPoint (Trinity University, Lagos)

Leading delivery of practical, industry-relevant full-stack software engineering and mobile development training for the Trinity University Skills Programme.

2026Software Developer Instructor · Lagos Data School

Delivering software development instruction and technical mentorship to students, covering programming fundamentals, modern web technologies, and practical software engineering workflows.

2026Backend Developer · ALU Exchange

Delivered backend services for a financial exchange platform as part of a small engineering team, covering its core transactional systems end to end.

2025Full Stack Developer & Tutor · Deejoft

Led the development team while designing and teaching the company's programming curriculum, spanning web fundamentals through to full-stack and mobile delivery.

2024Web Tutor · APTECH Computer Education

Taught web development fundamentals to classroom cohorts, covering HTML, CSS and JavaScript from first principles.

Full history, education and certificates on the CV →

writing

case studies & notes

How This Portfolio Was Built: A Story in CommitsMay 2026 · 6 min Building Zora on Contract: Shipping a Marketplace That Isn’t “Yours”—and Loving the Work AnywayApr 2026 · 1 min

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contact

available now

Write to me at my email, or find me on GitHub, LinkedIn and X.

ajiboladolapogenius@gmail.comor WhatsApp +234 806 328 1921

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òwe

a proverb I work by

Iṣẹ́ ni oògùn ìṣẹ́.

iṣẹ́: work
oògùn: medicine, the cure
ìṣẹ́: poverty, want

Work is the cure for want. The same letters, a different tone, and the meaning turns around. I like a language where the detail decides everything.