Amakiri Joseph
Senior Frontend Developer at Netchex
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolAmakiri Joseph is a Senior Frontend Developer with eight years of experience specializing in Angular, React, React Native, Node.js, and TypeScript, delivering high-quality web and mobile products from startups to enterprise payroll systems. He has a strong track record of technical leadership—establishing CI/CD pipelines, shaping architecture, and mentoring teams—while shipping features that measurably improve engagement and performance. Notable achievements include driving a product to 25k users in a week, cutting microservice response times by 43%, and modernizing offline-first and map-centric mobile experiences. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the popular react-native-paper library by improving bottom navigation behavior, tests, and documentation integration with react-navigation. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, he blends hands-on engineering with pragmatic product thinking and a knack for turning complex domain requirements into intuitive interfaces. He prefers tackling hard UX and infrastructural challenges that reduce reliance on third-party systems and scale reliably.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at Niger Delta University
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Github Skills (13)
mobile10
ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
android10
android-development10
react-navigation9
jestjs9
jes9
jtest9
uikit8
material-design8
documentation7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
callstack/react-native-paper
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Material Design for React Native (Android & iOS)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:6 reviews, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 19 days
Contributions summary:Amakiri primarily contributed to the React Native Paper library, focusing on enhancing the bottom navigation component. They added functionality for handling long press events on navigation tabs, implemented testing for these new features, and refactored the code to integrate with the react-navigation library. The user also addressed documentation issues, ensuring proper links after a major documentation upgrade.
androidiosmaterial-designreact-nativeui-kit
josemak25/hairx-client
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:32 PRs, 19 pushes, 11 branches in 19 days
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