Theo Okafor

Above Lending is a forward-thinking fintech company with a strong presence in Chicago and Houston. Above Lending is committed to delivering next-generation loan servicing that empowers clients and consumers.

A collaborative SaaS application for product teams. SpecNota enables the users to quickly generate and manage functional specification documents (FSD), rich text documents, and diagrams such as ERDs and flowcharts. SpecNota also has a rich project management feature similar to Asana, providing a similar depth of features and functionalities.

I acted as the technical team lead for the product. I also served as a full-stack software engineer contributing to the application's back end and front end.

MY ROLE
• Designing and developing complex new features, as well as maintaining the existing features.
• Interfacing with the developers and product designers to ensure that excellent design and engineering standards are implemented in the product.
• Managing the legacy deployment pipelines for the project, including the development of strategies for migrating to modern CI/CD setup.
• Implemented complex new features and fixed bugs in the existing application.
• Redesigning parts of the system architecture to support new business needs.
• Designing, implementation, and maintenance of RESTful API services.

Yep! is a fintech application for a Nigeria-based financial technology company, eSettlement group. I was the front-end engineer for the next-generation version. I covered the client-side business logic and architecture, including but not limited to secure client authentication, merchant onboarding, merchant settings, roles, and permissions for the company's next-generation fintech application. I liaised with back-end engineers to build fit-for-purpose RESTful API microservices. I also collaborated with the product designer to develop parts of the application designs.

A UK-based web application for the London School of Economics (LSE) Generate Accelerator Programme. Genpool is a PaaS that helps selected entrepreneurs connect with students and staff of LSE and offer various services. The application was built with Node.js, Express.js, and React for the client side.

I acted as the technical team lead for the project, setting up the application, especially the front-end architecture. I also led the deployment of the application. The front-end and back-end applications were deployed to AWS, AWS Amplify and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, respectively.

Plotpeer was a project investment application. I served as the full-stack software engineer responsible for bug fixes and implementing important new features for the MVP. I worked on both the front-end and the back-end of the application. I designed and built a complex custom in-app messaging system to enable asynchronous communication between admins, support team, and users via RESTful APIs. I interfaced with the product lead to redesign and rebuild parts of the application user interface and experience to match acceptable market standards. I detected and closed potential security vulnerabilities in the front-end and the back-end applications.

A Nigeria-based marketplace and website builder for services-oriented business. I acted as a full-stack software engineer, designing and developing software. I built everything from scratch, from the RESTful APIs services to the client-side application. I built the fully featured website builder on the platform, capable of supporting 100+ website templates.