South Africa

Front-end

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Back-end

Branding

iOS Engineering

Android Engineering

Liverpool John Moores University

Felix Owolabi

Senior Frontend Engineer 

Communication

Problem-solving

Time management

Team player

Presentation skills

Project management

Cloud computing

Database management

Design systems

Human computer interaction

Information architecture

Postman

React

WordPress

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Balsamiq

Docker

GitHub

HTML

JavaScript

REST API

PostgreSQL

Angular

Adobe Creative Suite

Hotjar

Figma

Organisation skills

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Analytical skills

Prototyping

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

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

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

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

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

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 ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

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

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

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 designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

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

Working with engineers

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Senior Software Developer with 6+ years of experience designing and developing enterprise web and cross-platform mobile applications. Experienced in Angular, Ionic, Blazor WebAssembly, ASP.NET Core, Firebase, REST APIs, and Azure. Delivered software solutions for automotive, telecommunications, banking, financial services, and customer engagement platforms. Passionate about software engineering, AI-driven applications, cloud technologies, and scalable digital solutions.

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