Hi there 👋🏽, I am David, a frontend engineer. I have over two years experience building pixel-perfect user interfaces & awesome experiences, working with bleeding edge technologies to solve problems. I speak Angular and React right now.
David Akanni is a highly productive frontend engineer. I am a fast and flexible learner, a strong advocate for adhering to best practices and result-oriented.
David Akanni
Frontend Engineer
Introduction
Work Experience
Lead Frontend Engineer
Redsofa
Location:Remote, Amsterdam
March 2019 - present
- Research software engineering choices and tools
- Management of progress on KPIs and tasks using Trello
- Maintain all software systems from development to production
- Implementing real time applications using Socket.io
- Creating reusable layouts, partials and flexible HTML templates using HandleBars.js and SCSS for prototyping thus reduce development time.
- Automate CSS and assets generation, assembling HandleBars templates using Grunt.
- Structure and build independent components using BEM methodology.
- Deploy all web applications to Heroku and Netlify for test purposes.
- Implementing modular, reusable components that are easy to maintain across React and Angular projects.
- Agile Development including daily stand-ups.
- Converting user interfaces from Figma
- Brainstorming and idea generation using Retroly.io
- Created a retrospective web application called Retroly and performed the role of a sole full-stack developer utilizing using MEAN stack.
- Collaborated as a sole front end developer in a fast-paced team to develop an e-commerce web application called Yanamode for fabrics using Angular. I developed both the user-facing frontend application and the merchant-facing frontend application.
- Actively using GitLab for all projects.
Latest Project
- Fullstack Developer
Retroly is a tool for teams that want to flourish and have impactful retros every single time. Organize retrospectives with team members all around the globe and collect feedback on different issues and ideas. Retroly allows you to collect honest feedback by allowing your team to anonymously post their views. Retroly guides your team through industry-approved activities that ensure you run a successful retro every time. From easy card sorting and customization options to live time storage, the user-friendly interface gives you the opportunity to improve your team’s performance and share ideas across a common platform.
Technologies: Angular 8, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Socket.io, HTML5, SCSS, Netlify, GitLab
Roles
- Built different micro-services for frontend and backend.
- Implemented token based authentication system with refresh tokens
- Implemented real time feedbacks using Node.js and Socket.io
- Automated documentation generation using postman collections for all endpoints
- Converted all designs from Figma using Angular and SCSS
- Auto-generate PDF and Excel documents using PDFMake and Workbook.js
- Implemented image storage using Cloudinary
- Continuously managing all deployments for both frontend and backend applications
- Integrated payment and billing management using Stripe
- I built the APIs using Nodejs,Express, Socket.io and MongoDB.
Accomplishments
- Retroly won 2nd product of the day on Product Hunt on 26th of December 2019
- Currently with over 4000+ successful retrospectives.
- Over 200+ daily usage
- Increasing active user engagements in France and the United States.
- Retroly was featured on a top tech blog in France. View
WeJapa
- Frontend Developer
Converted all deigns from Figma using React, SCSS and CSS Modules
Used functional components only
All SVG icons and illustrations are functional components. This allows for reusability
Chose Nextjs because of it's awesome file system routing
Technologies: Nextjs, SCSS, CSS Modules, GitHub, Netlify
Pegasus
- Frontend Developer
Pagasus - Borderless payments platform.
Converted all designs from Figma using HTML5 and SCSS
Technologies: HTML5, SCSS, Tailwind
Teslon
- Frontend Developer
Converted all deigns from Figma using HTML5 and SCSS and Bootstrap 4 for griding
Used CSS transition, transform and animation for animation effects
Technologies: HTML5, SCSS, Bootstrap 4, GitHub
Ore Adetunji's Portfolio
- Frontend Developer
Converted all designs from Figma using HTML5 and SCSS
Used CSS transitions for mild animation effect
Technologies: HTML5, SCSS, Bootstrap 4, GitHub
Music & Rights
- Frontend Developer
A Startup interested in the statistics and metrics part of music and entertainment.
With 0yrs of experience in React, I translated Marvel App designs and built the whole frontend application using React and SCSS.
Handled all forms elements with Formik
Sad 😔, it didn't go to production due to certain issues with 3rd parties
Technologies: React, React Hooks, React Router, Bootstrap 4, GitHub
Yanamode User
- Frontend Developer
Fashion Tech Startup that helps users find and purchase clothing materials online. Users can search with images, colors among other search parameters.
The fun part of the project was plugging into an AI-powered backend that searches for images and clothe patterns
Converted all designs from Figma using Angular and SCSS
Translated designs with components and reusability in mind
All SVGs and illustrations are pure Angular components, this helps reusability
Transitions and animations were achieved with pure CSS3 Transitions and Animation
Collaborated with remote team spread across Nigeria and Europe
Handled forms with Angular Reactive Form Modules
Sadly 😔, the project was put on hold.
Technologies: Angular, Bootstrap 4, Express.js, Node.js, GitLab
Yanamode Merchant
- Frontend Developer
Fashion Tech Startup that helps users with clothing materials
Converted all designs from Figma using Angular and SCSS
Sad 😔, the project was put on hold.
Technologies: Angular, Bootstrap 4, Express.js, Node.js,GitLab