Bola Buari
Full-Stack Software Engineer & Consultant at Freelance
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolBola Buari is a Full-Stack Software Engineer and consultant with eight years’ experience delivering scalable Ruby on Rails systems, React front-ends, and cloud-native architectures across fintech, edtech, and open-source projects. He combines hands-on performance and memory optimisations that cut costs and downtime with strategic architecture work—transforming monolithic Rails apps into API-only backends and speeding CI and release cycles. As a senior engineer he has driven measurable business outcomes (faster payments, revenue growth, reduced error rates) and improved team productivity through tooling and real-time collaboration features. Bola has contributed front-end fixes and UX improvements to the notable open-source Zammad helpdesk, demonstrating attention to detail from components to tests. Based in Lagos, he pairs a math background and computer engineering training with a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to shipping reliable, user-focused software.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics at University of BeninNational Diploma, Computer Engineering, National Diploma, Computer Engineering at Lagos City Polytechnic
English, Yoruba
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Github Skills (10)
javascript10
coffeescript10
html9
rails8
css8
ruby-on-rails8
su7
sup7
destructuring6
arrow-functions6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
zammad/zammad
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:95 commits, 7 PRs, 21 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Bola primarily focused on front-end development, addressing bugs and implementing features for the Zammad helpdesk system. Their contributions included fixing issues related to tree select and searchable select components by modifying JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and test files. They also removed UI elements and addressed issues related to the display of calendar files within ticket attachments and improved the user experience and added support for HTML5 required attributes and multiselect functionality within forms.
zammadcustomer-carerailsjavascriptweb-based
bolah2009/reusable-confirmation-dialog
Nov 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
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