Nigeria

Back-end

Technical Product Management

Front-end

Full stack

Data engineering

Site Reliability

B.Tech

Master of Engineering - MEng

Ayo Alfonso

Software engineer

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Project management

Conversational AI

Cloud computing

Database management

Information architecture

Machine learning

Postman

React

React Native

Ruby

GitHub

JavaScript

Mailchimp

REST API

Redis

PostgreSQL

Node.js

ChatGPT

Jira

GitLab

HTML

MongoDB

Figma

Notion

Python

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Working on the backend and mobile development of the identity and fraud prevention wallet.

Stack: DID backend, Typescript, Flutter and React Native to build IOS and Android apps

Working in the GitHub Growth engineering team.

Invested in Fluidcoins a crypto infrastructure company that enabled users to earn, spend, and save in stablecoins, achieving over $1.5M in transaction volumes and amassing more than 25k users within nine weeks of launch.

Built out the second mature phase of the flagship product API-based backend on Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL 
- Implemented industry standard KPI/OKR tracking modules for B2B clients
- Built the employee check-in software capable of managing over 200,000 user check-ins/sec for B2B clients
- Facilitated the hiring process for mid-level engineers
- Planned and delivered software releases for the platform 
- Mentored Frontend Engineer Interns during their Student Work Placement Program to the company e.g the University of Toronto.
- Identified bottlenecks across the Rails API and kickstarted the performance evaluation of various components on the frontend

Key Projects:


Worked on MLIR compiler infrastructure and consulted with AI companies 

Built a compiler optimized for ZK circuits instead of AI and MLIR but for ZK, TEE, MPC

ZK Rollup Integration: Built and spearheaded the integration of ZK Rollup technology into our backend infrastructure. This involved designing and deploying smart contracts that significantly increased transaction throughput without compromising our centralised architecture 

Zero-Knowledge LLVM Development: Led initiatives to optimize our blockchain compiler infrastructure using Zero-Knowledge LLVM. 

This work involved customizing LLVM to support zero-knowledge proofs, enabling more efficient verification processes and reducing computational overhead.

Circom Compiler Expertise: Utilized Circom, a cutting-edge ZK-SNARK circuit compiler, to construct zero-knowledge proofs. 

My role encompassed developing and testing circuits that improved the privacy and integrity of user transactions, making them verifiable without revealing underlying data

- Built and deployed features on the banking internal tools and portals for the operations team. Processing commercial papers, treasury bills, bonds and other investment vehicles we introduced to the market
- Built 30+ real-time interaction modules for internal CRM module ~ managing over 13,000 customer inquiries at some point
- Implemented a robust Access Control System for admin/root members
- An approval/rejection system that moderates critical banking activities
- Gradually implement TDD on the codebase on handover and cleaned up Redux files slowing down app response time from 5 - 10 secs to < 1.5 secs

Outwork.ng Team
- Built a production-ready management software that helps businesses handle real-time management of field workers in React - using Redux for state management.
- Supported the backend team and wrote the Java -Spring Framework- for our microservice-based backend 
- Wrote Unit tests to stress test our code in the build process, successfully reducing production error rates by 15%.
- Worked on updating internal documentation of React components, and set up CI/CD to increase our deployment resilience.
- Poached within 6 months to another project due to strong performance and organizational impact (ahead of schedule)

Worked on experimental tech around Edtech, AI infrastructure, electric circuit boards, microprocessors

AlldayHr Team
- After being poached to another team in Zonetechpark I worked on the redesign of the product's homepage with Laravel - framework for php - and lead generation forms using only existing site components; reduced bounce rates by 40% and increased leads by 15% 
- Built an ATS/CRM app - using React, Postgres, PHP - that received 11,000 users in the first two weeks of release to the public https://select.alldayhr.com
- Led integration of an external technology solution working with 4 developers and 5 testers working across teams

- Worked on the payment API system, over a cluster of node.js servers, and mysql data Mytoddlr, an application that school teachers use to keep parents updated on their children's daily progress.
- Integrating a simple payment solution proved problematic, our business logic was complex, this meant working closely with the business team in the UK to build a system that worked for our unique use case (allowing payments from parents to nanny and school bank accounts
- Developed a dashboard to gather intelligence on how users used our mobile apps.
- Built a robust Payment Platform that served our fast-growing > 20,000 customers i.e parents, schools and nannies

Drove the product roadmap for fly.africa based on google analytics, and a couple other sources. Reported to the Head of Growth on insights from data.

Lead analytics on a new product to help drive actionable insights.
Used data and insight to co-develop product roadmaps with product managers and developers.

Job Responsibilities

 Lead analytics on our new product to help drive actionable insights

Craft a data-centric view of customer behaviour to diagnose drivers for business impact
Prioritize, evaluate and recommend next steps for all version tests

Conduct analytic deep-dives of critical business issues that impact performance and translate 
analyses into actionable recommendations

Closely monitor business performance to identify risks, new opportunities, and industry trends

Job Responsibilities

 Informing clients and customers about the limitations of the system and the website

 Contributing to improvements in technology, content, and user interaction

 Identifying potential problems with new website functions/features before they go live

 Designing and choosing the website's visual layout

 Editing or changing code, software, or graphics of our existing website

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