Oliver Oxenham
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Quatre Bornes, Plaines Wilhems District, Mauritius
Toptal member since October 19, 2022
Oliver is an entrepreneur with 15+ years of experience building software. With a computer science degree from the prestigious National University of Singapore, Oliver co-founded his first startup in 2008 in Singapore and sold it in 2012 to eBay in Silicon Valley. He spent the following six years as a senior software engineer at eBay, focusing mainly on front-end development. Oliver loves to experiment with new product ideas. Give him a Figma design and receive a pixel-perfect website in no time!
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 12 years
- React - 5 years
- Node.js - 4 years
- Firebase - 4 years
- Serverless - 4 years
- Tailwind CSS - 2 years
- Next.js - 2 years
- Figma - 2 years
Preferred Environment
JavaScript, CSS, Figma, Tailwind CSS, React, Firebase, Serverless, JSON REST APIs, HTML5, Git
The most amazing...
...product I've engineered is a world-class mapping tech that allows concert-goers to see the view from their seats in 2D and 3D prior to purchasing their tickets.
Work Experience
CTO and Senior Full-stack Developer
CardCity LLP
- Built SnapFi—a web app to give crypto users the ability to view their decentralized portfolio wallet in an innovative manner using Next.js, TailwindCSS with a serverless back end.
- Launched ShopprBot.com—an eCommerce chat app to allow anyone to start selling on WhatsApp and Telegram within minutes. The app handles the conversation between buyers and sellers and seamlessly handles the payment via chat.
- Built CardCity—a React Native app that allows any shop to process cryptocurrency transactions. The app also handled incentives for returning customers using rewards in the form of cryptocurrency, and it was built on top of the Stellar blockchain.
Interview Engineer (Freelance)
An Online Freelance Agency
- Delivered exceptional candidate interview experiences to candidates applying for software-related jobs at a number of international tech companies.
- Professionally handled over one hundred technical interviews.
- Performed quality checks on interviews. Ensured the write-up correctly reports the performance of the candidate based on what occurred during the interview.
- Conducted highly predictive technical interviews that power world-class hiring processes for leading organizations.
Senior Software Engineer
StubHub
- Architected and implemented StubHub’s popular interactive map technology from scratch using JavaScript.
- Filed fifteen patents for eBay related to innovative ways of displaying interactive maps on a ticket-selling website.
- Mentored and accompanied junior team members to solve technical problems. Architected production-ready components.
- Created platform allows people to buy and sell tickets online.
Co-founder and Technology Architect
Peekspy Pte Ltd
- Architected and built a patented technology targeted at online ticket sellers to give them the ability to easily integrate professional interactive seat maps with 3D views on their websites.
- Developed a successful business strategy for global expansion from Singapore to Europe and the United States.
- Bootstrapped the startup which was eventually acquired by eBay in March 2012.
- Created a startup that produced 2D and 3D mapping technology for ticket resellers.
Experience
ShopprBot
TypeMe
https://react-typeme.netlify.appCardCity | A Crypto Payment App for Startups
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
National University of Singapore - Singapore
Undergraduate Coursework (Minor) in Entrepreneurship
Stanford University - San Francisco, CA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, Telegram Bot API, REST APIs, React Redux, jQuery, Telegram Messenger API, WhatsApp API
Tools
Create React App, Jira, Webpack, GitHub, Figma, Git, Prisma
Languages
JavaScript, CSS, HTML, TypeScript, GraphQL, CSS3, HTML5, Java
Platforms
Web, Firebase
Frameworks
Tailwind CSS, Next.js, Redux, React Native, Serverless Framework, Material UI
Paradigms
Agile, Testing, App Development
Other
Software Development, Computer Science, Lean Startups, High-tech Startups, Entrepreneurship, Responsive UI, Front-end, Web Development, Serverless, Agile Practices, Full-stack Development, APIs, Telegram Bots, Application State Management, Reusable Libraries, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Responsive Design, Code Review, Full-stack, Dashboards, Software Engineering, Programming, JSON REST APIs, Hybrid Frameworks, Chatbots, WhatsApp, HTML5 Animations, Apollo
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