Onome Osika

Profile

Senior frontend engineer with 5+ years building scalable web applications and leading teams. Specialises in React and Next.js architecture, TypeScript and responsive, accessible UI. Track record in performance optimisation, full-stack feature delivery and mentoring junior developers. Also works as a creative designer across social, campaign and retail signage design.

Experience

1. Senior Frontend Engineer, JL13 Concepts

   Sep 2023 – Present · Remote (Canada)

   • Frontend infrastructure for 4 SaaS products and internal tools: landing pages, dashboards and community platforms.
   • Private communities, automated workflows and demo booking with React, Shadcn UI and custom hooks.
   • Internal CRM dashboard with ApexCharts and Azure SSO: 50+ internal users, 99.2% uptime.
   • Cloudflare CDN and lazy loading: 40% reduction in time-to-interactive.
   • JWT/OAuth authentication patterns shared across products.

2. Frontend Engineer & Design Lead, ConnectAfrobeats

   Aug 2024 – Sep 2025 · Remote

   • Led development of a social network platform (chat, feed, content creation) in Next.js and TypeScript.
   • Zustand + TanStack Query architecture: 30% reduction in initial load time; Core Web Vitals score 62 → 85 (mobile).
   • Google Sign-in, JWT and Paystack integration.
   • UI redesign with Tailwind and Shadcn UI to WCAG 2.1 AA, for a platform with 1K+ active users.
   • Cross-functional delivery.

3. Head of IT, Thummim Nigeria & Kenya

   Jan 2022 – Sep 2025 · Full-time

   • IT operations and frontend for regional offices, on platforms serving 15K+ users.
   • Custom WordPress plugins (PHP, REST API): 60% reduction in content management time.
   • Cloudflare CDN and JWT; infrastructure, scaling and support process improvements: support response time 8hrs → <2hrs, 99% uptime.
   • Mentored junior developers and set coding standards.