Desmoline Awa
Senior Software Engineer at Coursera
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDesmoline Awa is a Senior Software Engineer and founder with nine years of experience building full-stack web and mobile products using React, React Native, Node.js, and TypeScript. Currently at Coursera, he designs scalable frontend systems, drives SLI/SLA-oriented reliability practices, mentors engineers, and participates in on-call rotations and blameless retrospectives. As founder of Ataraxia and creator of the Stoic Bible app, he blends product design, psychology, and ancient philosophy into consumer-facing wellbeing tools with subscriptions and cross-platform integrations. He has a strong track record migrating legacy frontends, shipping end-to-end tests, and improving developer velocity through infrastructure and DX improvements. Comfortable spanning product, engineering, and founding roles, he combines data-informed decision making (A/B testing, analytics) with hands-on implementation. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with disciplined engineering practice.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Startup School, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, 3/3, Startup School, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, 3/3 at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.78/4, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.78/4 at American University of Nigeria
English, French
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Github Skills (87)
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android10
mongodb10
reactioncommerce10
docker10
storefront10
ecommerce10
commerce10
graphql10
react10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
awadesmoline/fullstack-dms
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
An app for managing documents online
Contributions:43 PRs, 146 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 5 months
edtech
awadesmoline/stoic-bible
May 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 19 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
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