Dominic Orim
Engineering Team Lead at Zedi Inc
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolDominic Orim is an Engineering Team Lead based in Lagos with eight years of professional experience and a hands-on background across TypeScript, Node.js, and Go. He progressed from tech support and teaching into full-stack and backend roles, now leading engineering at Zedi Inc while contributing technical writing at freeCodeCamp. Dominic is an active open-source tinkerer—his Remotion and Open Collective contributions improved editor integrations, UX and internationalized UI flows in well-known React/Next.js projects. He combines practical product sensibilities with a penchant for developer experience, often tackling editor workflows and API deduplication to make tooling smoother. Trained originally in biochemistry, he brings analytical rigor and a curiosity-driven approach to software problems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Biochemistry, Bachelor’s Degree Biochemistry at University of Ilorin, Nigeria
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Github Skills (32)
javascript10
nextjs10
360-video10
react10
cli10
apidoc9
internationalization9
front-end-development9
localization9
api9
vscode9
i18next9
typescripts8
user-interface8
cost-management8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
opencollective/opencollective-frontend
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Open Collective's Frontend. A React app powered by Next.js.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 35 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dominic primarily contributed to the frontend of the Open Collective platform, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements. They implemented UI improvements in the expense and contribution flows. Furthermore, the user addressed internationalization issues and refactored components, with commits also involving code formatting and general maintenance tasks.
next-jsreactfrontendopencollectivewebpack
remotion-dev/remotion
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
🎥 Make videos programmatically with React
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dominic focused on enhancing the Remotion CLI's editor integration, primarily for opening code in an external IDE. They implemented and refined features for opening files in VS Code and other editors, including adding menu options and error handling. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs and improved the user experience related to opening files in external code editors and displayed notifications. Finally, they deduplicated API calls used to launch the editor from different components of the application.
reactvideosjavascriptvideoprogrammatically
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