Ekwugha Andrew Sopuruchi

Shopjese is a multi-platform social commerce application committed to powering the success and growth of small businesses in Africa.

It kicked off with a four-person team comprising a graphic designer, a Kotlin Android developer, a full-stack engineer, and a project manager who’s also the founder. I happened to be the full-stack engineer on the team and later became the CTO of the company.

As a full-stack engineer on the back end, I designed, implemented, and documented all our REST APIs to power our Android app, merchant dashboard, admin dashboard, marketplace, and merchants’ online storefronts. While on the front end, I built the dashboards, marketplace, and a custom storefront for each merchant after setting up their account.

SpecNota rebuild was done by a team of four developers comprising two front-end engineers, one back-end engineer, and a full-stack engineer. I acted as the full-stack engineer and the team lead on the project. I mainly worked on the front end and sparingly on the back end when needed. However, I took full charge of code reviews and approvals on both the front and back end. While working on the front end, I specifically implemented the user authentications interfaces and the task management UIs. I also managed our server environments (staging and production).

We had a medium-size team of developers at eSoft Response, and everyone didn’t have to work on the same project simultaneously. When this contract was signed, it was assigned to a five-person team comprising a designer, three full-stack engineers, and a code reviewer. I was one of the full-stack engineers assigned to the project.

I built and documented the REST APIs for provider categories, file uploads, and the chat system on the back end. On the front end, I created the UIs for the chat system and integrated the REST APIs, handling file uploads and downloads.

London School of Economics (LSE) Generate is a socially-driven entrepreneurship platform with three categories of users—admin, LSE founders, and service providers.

As a full-stack engineer on this project, I was supposed to co-lead the project and provide support both on the back end and front end. I was the most experienced person with the Node.js framework (AdonisJS) we used on the back end. Consequently, I handled the project setup and deployment to the staging environment. In addition, I built and documented the REST APIs for user onboarding, managing support agents, ticketing system, events, resources, cron jobs implementation, and actively supported my teammate with the features he implemented. On the front end, I routinely reviewed and approved pull requests (PRs) and supported bug fixes and user interface implementations. All my teammates on the project had already left the company before we could go live with the project, so I had to single-handedly take care of final bug fixes and deployment to production.

Tasty African Food is the largest West African food chain in the UK, spanning over two decades of service, providing traditional quality food amongst the African community in the UK. They needed us to build a multi-tenant system to manage their franchisees, support agents, and business in one app.