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Welcome
Welcome in the languages I've built AI data tools for: Yorùbá, Igbo and Hausa.
I'm Samuel, a frontend engineer who also builds what's behind the screen.
Based in Lagos, working remotely with teams worldwide. I turn messy problems into clear, fast web products for fintech, health and AI. If you're technical, I'll talk architecture. If you're not, I'll keep it plain.
const samuel = {
role: "Senior Frontend Engineer",
alsoBuilds: ["Node.js backends", "design systems", "teams"],
basedIn: "Lagos, Nigeria",
works: "remotely, with teams worldwide",
openTo: ["contracts", "consulting", "gigs",
"collaborations", "partnerships"],
yearsShipping: 6,
};in plain English: I build what you see and what's behind it, for teams anywhere, and I'm open to different ways of working together.
this endpoint is real — send a request and see for yourself
in plain English: that's a small backend I wrote for this site. Same idea as the systems that sit behind your product.
AI integration, live — ask it anything about my work
A small assistant that answers from my CV. It's available on every page and it's the same kind of feature I can build into your product.
- 6+
- years shipping products
- 15+
- engineers on one microfrontend setup
- 25%
- faster page builds with a design system
- 3
- industries: fintech, health, AI
selected work
drag the handle on any project to peek under the hood
Fintech · Hydrogen Payment Services
Back-office platform
The back office where Hydrogen's teams manage merchants, transactions and configuration, decide exactly who can do what, and see who did what and when. It's also the front door to the company's other portals.
Fintech · Hydrogen Payment Services
Shared design system
Teams across Hydrogen manage their own code, so screens drifted apart from one product to the next, even inside the back-office platform. The design system is the shared library every team picks its components from, so everything looks and behaves the same and new screens come together about 25% faster.
AI · Awarri
Language AI platform
I led the frontend team that built the tools turning raw text and audio into clean training data in local languages, and then the products built on that data: speech and text, voice cloning, and a real-time voice assistant.
latest writing
- 2026-10-05Many Next.js apps, one addressHow we run separate Next.js portals under one domain with a reverse proxy, an asset prefix and a small Docker trick, and why the hardest part was people.
- 2026-10-05Design systems that people actually useHow a private npm package, a Markdown docs site and a lot of sprint planning made a shared component library the single source of truth for up to 10 teams.