Elyon Olaniran
Instructor at Whizara
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolElyon Olaniran is a software engineer and educator with a decade of experience building front-end mobile and web applications and teaching K-12 computer science. Based in Oakland, they have shipped features and maintained the Shipt Shopper app, contributed to in-house open-source React Native libraries, and held software engineering roles at Microsoft. Elyon blends hands-on product development with curriculum design—teaching app development, Scratch, and physical computing in after-school programs—bringing user-focused accessibility to both code and classrooms. Their background spans game jams, nonprofit web work, and startups, evidencing a knack for rapid prototyping and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Notably, they move fluidly between production mobile engineering and mentoring the next generation of technologists.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Wood Technology, Associate of Science - AS, Wood Technology at Laney CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Howard University
English, Yoruba
Github Skills (4)
react-native6
react6
redux6
state-management3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ChiefoftheOwls/ChiefoftheOwls
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year
ChiefoftheOwls/greyScreen2
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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