Software engineer · open to new work
Good ideas deservegreat execution.
I’m Moyomade, a software engineer helping founders and teams build thoughtful, reliable digital products. I’ve worked across AI, marketplaces, fintech, and logistics.
Teams I’ve built software with
Straqa
Logistics
Gixel
AI
Social Shake
Marketplace & payments
TechSynergy
E-commerce
Laferla Insurance
Insurance
DevFest Lagos
Events & ticketing
Selected work.
Three products I’ve helped build and ship, each with a full write-up: the problem, the decisions, and what I’d change.
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Social Shake
A marketplace where brands brief, hire and pay 500+ creators for short-form video.
- The problem
- Brands and creators had to trust each other first: one pays up front, or the other films for free.
- My role
- Sole developer for an Australian client, from first commit to production. Separate dashboards for brands, creators and admins.
- The hard part
- Money moves with each order. Cards are held at checkout, charged only when a video is approved, then paid out through Stripe Connect.
- Outcome
- Live, with 500+ creators on the platform and brands running projects and contests through it.
Built with Next.js, TypeScript, Firebase, Stripe Connect and Socket.io.
Also built
All 11 projects- 2026AtelierA luxury fashion store that looks the part, with real checkout, accounts and an admin behind it.
- 2026Three ArmsA 3D explainer of Nigeria’s government where every constitutional claim cites its section.
- 2025InternConnectA two-sided internship platform — companies post and review, students apply and track.
- 2024Go-DigitalMoved insurance cards into Apple and Google Wallet — a 25% jump in adoption.
Plus 4 more on the work page, including machine learning projects.
What I can help with.
Early products and established ones. I’m most useful where the idea is clear and it needs someone to build it well.01
Product development
Turning a defined product idea into a working web application, from the data model to the screens people use.
For example: Social Shake, built end to end for a client.
02
SaaS feature development
Building features, dashboards, integrations and workflows inside a product that already has users.
For example: Apple and Google Wallet passes at Laferla; logistics dashboards at Straqa.
03
Frontend engineering
Interfaces that are fast, accessible and easy to maintain, built with React, Next.js and TypeScript.
For example: The DevFest Lagos 2024 site, where accessibility went from 82% to 96%.
04
AI-powered features
Adding AI to a product where it solves a real problem for users, with the cost and the failures handled.
For example: Gixel’s campaign generation, with OpenAI, Gemini and Replicate behind it.
Experience.
In-house at startups, independently for clients, and with the volunteer team behind one of Nigeria’s largest developer conferences.Straqa
2026 – now
Frontend engineer
Frontend engineer
The frontend of a logistics platform for African businesses, including a transportation management dashboard kept in sync with live data.
2026 – now
Gixel
2025 – now
Lead web engineer
Lead web engineer
Took an iOS-only product to the web: the Next.js app, the generation pipeline, credits and billing.
2025 – now
Social Shake
2025
Freelance, sole developer
Freelance, sole developer
A three-sided marketplace with escrow payments and live chat, built end to end for an Australian client.
2025
TechSynergy
2024 – 2025
Frontend developer
Frontend developer
Rebuilt the company site and the PrintEazy store UI. Shared components cut feature work by 30%; SEO work lifted organic traffic 18%.
2024 – 2025
Laferla Insurance
2024
Frontend developer
Frontend developer
Moved member insurance cards into Apple and Google Wallet, a 25% jump in adoption. Reworked onboarding for 20% more sign-ups.
2024
DevFest Lagos
2024 – now
Frontend engineer, volunteer team
Frontend engineer, volunteer team
The 2024 and 2025 event platforms for 4,000+ attendees. Helped raise accessibility from 82% to 96% (WCAG 2.1 AA).
2024 – now
How I work.
The same five steps on every project, shown here on Social Shake, where the client needed a marketplace people could trust with money.01
Understand the problem
Find the real requirement under the stated one, before writing any code.
It was pitched as a UGC marketplace. The real problem was trust: someone always had to go first.
02
Agree the scope
Decide what the first release has to get right, and what can wait.
Writing a brief was the hardest moment for brands, so it became four short steps with a live cost estimate.
03
Build it properly
Usability, performance and maintainability are part of the work, not a later phase.
Videos up to 100MB go up in 1MB chunks, because a single request on Vercel can’t carry them.
04
Test, refine, ship
Make sure the product keeps its promises once real people use it.
Payment webhooks are recorded as they arrive, so one delivered twice is skipped, not processed again.
05
Keep everyone informed
Clear updates in plain language, and a written record of what I’d change next.
The write-up ends with what I’d fix: card holds expire after about a week, so long projects should charge up front.
About me
I’m a software engineer in Lagos, Nigeria. I’ve built insurance cards for Apple Wallet, ticketing for a 4,000-person conference, and a marketplace that moves money between brands and creators.
What keeps me interested is the space between an idea and the thing people use: working out what a product really needs to do, then making it work properly, including the parts nobody sees.
I’m now learning machine learning in depth, training models rather than only calling them, and writing about it as I go.
Writing
Notes on engineering, learning AI, and building in tech.