Software engineer, Backend engineer, Blockchain ethusiast
Hi, I'm Jay 👋 a full-stack engineer with a backend heart and about 4 years of experience building products that are as reliable under the hood as they are smooth on the surface. I love working across the stack, but my happy place is designing clean APIs, scalable systems, and the kind of backend logic that just works. Lately, I've been diving into the world of Layer 1 blockchain exploring how decentralized infrastructure is reshaping the way we think about the web. When I'm not coding, you'll probably find me chasing the next thing that challenges how I think. Always building, always learning.
Contribution Graph
Work Experience
Gearsparks Consulting
Forward deployed software engineer
• Built and shipped end-to-end web interfaces for a productivity platform using React and TypeScript. • Implemented robust API integrations (REST & GraphQL) to enhance user experience. • Optimized performance and quality across features, ensuring compliance with Core Web Vitals and WCAG standards. • Collaborated with product and design teams to deliver features rapidly in a fully remote environment.
Mission Sync
Fullstack Engineer
• Developed and integrated new backend features for the V2 release, enhancing API reliability and scalability. • Implemented modular architecture with dependency injection, improving system maintainability. • Enhanced system reliability through structured logging and monitoring, reducing incident resolution time by 40%. • Conducted a full-stack refactor to optimize load time and improve user experience.
Cleverfolks
Frontend engineer
Collaborated with backend and AI engineers to integrate real-time agent communication tools into the frontend. • Developed data-driven dashboards and UI components to enhance monitoring of multi-agent workflows. • Focused on performance optimization strategies to efficiently handle complex AI outputs at scale.
Shippack
Software developer
At Shippack i Built real-time shipment tracking dashboards and a multi-mode pricing calculator for ShipPack, consuming live REST/WebSocket APIs and encoding complex business logic including rate rules, weight thresholds, and carrier conditionals. Optimized web and mobile interfaces for payload efficiency and graceful degradation under unreliable network conditions common in last-mile delivery. Co-designed RESTful API contracts with backend engineers, shaping endpoint structure and response formats to meet frontend data requirements at scale.
Codegarage Africa
Frontend developer
Architected a full-stack Next.js and TypeScript codebase from the ground up, designing scalable component architecture and implementing rigorous type systems that enforced data contracts between frontend and backend layers. Translated complex Figma designs into performant, pixel-precise interfaces while engineering the underlying data-fetching layer — managing API integration, caching strategies, and real-time state synchronization for dynamic content delivery. Owned end-to-end API consumption patterns, designing request/response handling logic that enabled seamless data retrieval, error resilience, and real-time updates across web applications.