Habib Afolabi
Résumé

Habib Afolabi

Lead Frontend Engineer · Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

Frontend Engineer with over five years of professional experience building highly performant web applications using React, Redux, Next.js, and TypeScript. Proven expertise in developing responsive, scalable solutions with a strong focus on pixel-perfect UI implementation, performance optimization, and code quality.

Experience

  • BelraldLead Frontend Engineer
    Aug 2024 — Present
    • Led a team of 4 developers to architect and launch a comprehensive university management suite of an admin dashboard, lecturer portal, and student portal now live across 5+ institutions.
    • Engineered a modular UI component library using React and Storybook, increasing frontend development velocity across 3 applications.
    • Ensured code quality through peer reviews, refactoring, and best practices.
    • Delivered features end-to-end across multiple workstreams, coordinating with design and backend teams in an agile environment to consistently meet sprint goals.
  • SabiFrontend Engineer
    May 2021 — Aug 2024
    • Shipped features across admin and customer-facing applications serving 150,000 plus merchants across Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa.
    • Implemented a selective checkout feature empowering users to choose specific items from their cart for purchase.
    • Migrated cart storage from server to client using browser storage APIs, improving speed and reducing load on backend infrastructure.
    • Delivered features end-to-end across multiple agile teams in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment with minimal supervision.
  • Solve MoneyFrontend Engineer (Contract)
    Oct 2022 — Feb 2023
    • Built an internal dashboard serving as a control panel for managing and monitoring the lending process end-to-end.
    • Identified and implemented improvements that enhanced functionality and UX across the dashboard and customer application.

Skills

Core skills

  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • SASS/SCSS
  • HTML
  • CSS

Other technologies

  • Git
  • Redux
  • Material UI
  • React Query
  • Npm
  • Yarn
  • Github
  • Zustand
  • Formik
  • Yup
  • React Testing Library

Education

  • Frontend Developer NanodegreeUdacity
    2020
  • Bachelor’s Degree in EconomicsUniversity of Ilorin
    2017