Chibuotu Amadi
Co-Founder Backend Engineer at Paycrest
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolChibuotu Amadi is a Lagos-based co-founder and backend engineer with a decade of experience building product-focused systems for startups and open-source ecosystems. He has held senior and founding technical roles at Paycrest, Cura Network, and Gitcoin, blending backend architecture with hands-on full-stack work to ship scalable web and blockchain-integrated features. An active contributor to notable open-source projects like Gitcoin and Passport—where he drove UI improvements, wallet integrations, and Tailwind-based refactors—he regularly moves between UX polish and infrastructure reliability. Known for turning ideas into efficient processes, he combines entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic engineering to deliver measurable product outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Benin
English
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
typescript10
user-interface10
tailwindcss10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
web-development10
react10
jes9
css9
jtest9
jestjs9
html9
walletconnect8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gitcoinco/grants-stack
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Round Manager & Grant Explorer & Project Builder of the Grants Protocol
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:114 reviews, 269 commits, 98 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chibuotu primarily contributed to the front-end development of a round manager application. Their work involved installing and integrating Tailwind CSS, a utility-first CSS framework. The user implemented UI changes, as shown in the "use tailwind in dashboard" commit, and refactored CSS styling by removing unused elements, focusing on UI and style components. They also restructured the application package, indicating involvement in the project architecture.
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gitcoinco/web
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
Grow Open Source
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 420 reviews, 946 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chibuotu primarily worked on the front-end of the Gitcoin web application, contributing to UI improvements and feature enhancements within the dashboard. Their work included adding filters to the explorer and modifying the portfolio section for users to manage their projects. They also refactored the code, declaring unchanging variables as const, and removed chat config json.
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