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Arikawe
Selected Works 💼
A collection of platforms enabling financial inclusion and digital collaboration.
Open Source 📦
Tools and libraries built for the developer community.
Mobile Apps
Native experiences built for performance and scale.
Work Experience
May 2023 - Present
Crowdr 🤝
Engineering Lead/Lead Frontend Engineer
Lagos, Nigeria (remote)
- ✦Led development of Nigeria's first international payment integration using Apple Pay.
- ✦Facilitated over £220,000 / ₦450 million in fundraising volume till date.
- ✦Established technical vision and scaled engineering function.
- ✦Achieved 900% revenue growth in 8 months through payment innovations.
February 2024 - February 2026
Afropolitan 🌍
Founding Frontend Engineer
San Francisco, California (remote)
- ✦Resolved critical performance and stability issues in Afropass (flagship product), contributing to $100,000 in revenue within 18 months.
- ✦Built Legacy, a premium dating platform for high-net-worth Africans, achieving 1,000+ sign-ups in 6 months.
- ✦Developed the AfropolitanOne platform tying all product offerings into a subscription model.
- ✦Developed Convo, a mentor-mentee matching platform with Google Meet integration.
January 2023 - August 2024
Strata Advisory
Lead Frontend Engineer
Lagos, Nigeria (remote)
- ✦Built and maintained a reconciliation platform used by MTN Nigeria, Flutterwave, and other enterprise clients managing millions of quarterly transactions.
- ✦Led cross-functional front-end team of 4 engineers, reported directly to CTO, and owned core UI, dashboard systems, and platform performance
- ✦Authored 521+ verified commits to Crunch's UI codebase
- ✦Migrated web exchange from CRA to Vite, reducing build time by 50% and improving initial load time from 10 seconds to 3 seconds
March 2021 - Feb 2023
Zijela 🏧
Senior Frontend Engineer
Lagos, Nigeria
- ✦Developed the SaySwitch Application dashboard and Agency Banking Service end-to-end, and managed the daily operations. Onboarded over 5000 agents at the time and processed over £400,000 in payments.
- ✦Led front-end design and development of Payinvert and Sayswitch, fintech platforms enabling online payment collection and digital payment solutions.
- ✦Led design and development of entire front-end architecture, including merchant and admin dashboards, checkout flow, website, and payment link functionalities.
- ✦Enabled hundreds of merchants to process thousands of monthly transactions through a stable and scalable payment infrastructure.