Salisu Wada Yahaya
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Salisu is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience in full-stack development. He has extensive experience developing cross-platform applications such as a React Native app for purchasing transport tickets and payment integration, an electronic CBT solution, a platform for connecting caregivers and patients, and an apartment management web app with an integrated geolocation feature. Salisu has reduced workload by over 90% on a project for managing pensioners' payments.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Docker, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Slack, Git, Jenkins, Jira, Cross-platform App Development
The most amazing...
...project I've helped develop is an efficient model for consolidating and generating meaningful insights from millions of disconnected IoT sensor data.
Work Experience
Software Engineering Mentor
Springboard
- Mentored and guided aspiring software engineers in React, Python, Flask, REST and RESTful APIs, JavaScript, MySQL, and website and full-stack development, enabling them to gain the necessary skills to become employable software engineers.
- Evaluated and reviewed software projects, ensuring compliance with industry best practices to maintain high software development standards while supporting individuals transitioning into software engineering and aiding their career growth.
- Achieved the goal of this endeavor, which is to produce good software engineers equipped with relevant skills for employment.
Software Engineer
Self-employed
- Developed Connected Carers, a community and social platform for connecting caregivers and patients globally, with integrated surveys to assess users' well-being and matching algorithms to suggest connections and events based on users' health states.
- Created a cross-platform mobile application in React Native for selling tickets, improving revenue through streamlined ticket sales with the Stripe payment gateway. Ensured security by allowing tickets to be active on only one device at a time.
- Built a web app for real estate using .NET Core to enable users to view properties and their features and geolocate them using Mapbox API. Developed REST API using relevant design patterns for an extensible, maintainable, and scalable codebase.
- Developed a photo-sharing application with support for authentication and authorization, multi-file upload, and progress tracking using React and .NET Core. This single-page application is backed with Entity Framework, Tailwind, and React Router.
Lead Developer
TeleTech International Limited
- Developed an online portal for pensioners with over 100,000 users. This reduced the workload for manually preparing payslips and payment vouchers by more than 90%.
- Built a nationwide filling station management system for monitoring sales and inventory of petroleum products using integrated IoT sensors to ensure 100% availability of products, business growth, and a return on investment.
- Created an intranet workplace (in SharePoint) with workflows that automate projects and task approval. This reduces paper usage by about 70%, adds transparency to the approval process, and eases the tracking of crucial documents.
System Administrator and IT Lead
Nasarawa GeoInfo Service
- Developed internal tools for managing system update deployment, ensuring approximately 99% uptime of the servers and domain controllers.
- Built GIS-based land mapping and digitization tools that save each staff nearly three hours daily. This saved over 1,400 working hours monthly for the 21-member team of the agency.
- Managed and maintained network devices, servers, and client PCs via regular troubleshooting and support to ensure device readiness, customer satisfaction, and a steady flow of revenue.
Experience
Google Analytics Integration with Vue
Front-end Design and Modification
Properties Management Platform for Seniors (2024)
ChatGPT-based Application for Press Release
http://endurancesportswire.com/ai-press-release-generator/REMOJO Client Application (New Features and Bug Fixes)
http://app.remojo.com/Connected Carers: A Social Media for Connecting Carers and Patients
http://community.connectedcarers.comReact Photo Sharing App
https://github.com/salisuwy/gifstore-react-app• Authentication features, such as login and register for user access control.
• Profile update feature allowing users to change their name and password.
• Drag and drop multi-image upload with progress tracking and cancellation to enhance the user experience.
• Item renaming, tagging, deletion, and access restriction for efficient app management.
• A dashboard with a search feature to enable easy navigation and retrieval of items.
• Unrestricted access to items marked as public, ensuring open access to shared items.
• Developed the RESTful API using ASP.NET Core, SQLite, Entity Framework, and Identity, ensuring scalability and high performance.
Fusion ForeCourt System
Pensioners Portal
Skills
Languages
C#.NET, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTML5, TypeScript, Python, PHP, C#
Frameworks
ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, React Native, Tailwind CSS, Next.js, Bootstrap, .NET, Laravel, MJML, Remix, Angular
Libraries/APIs
React, REST APIs, WordPress API, Vue, Twilio API, Node.js, Entity Framework
Tools
C#.NET WinForms, Postman, Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel
Platforms
WordPress, HubSpot, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Twilio
Storage
MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server
Other
Full-stack Development, Back-end, ChatGPT, API Integration, Cross-platform App Development, Full-stack, OpenAI GPT-4 API, Responsive Email Templates, HTML Email, Email Design, OpenAI GPT-3 API, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics 4, RudderStack, Twilio Segment, Reverse ETL, Cloud Services, Hardware, Multitenancy, Segment
Paradigms
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Education
Doctorate Degree in Computer Science
Nottingham Trent University - Nottingham, United Kingdom
Master's Degree in Cybernetics and Communications
Nottingham Trent University - Nottingham, United Kingdom
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