Gbolahan Fawale
Product Designer at Stealth Startup
Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolGbolahan Fawale is a Product Designer with eight years of hands-on experience crafting user-centered digital products and six years leading design teams across fintech, SaaS, and AgriTech in Nigeria and beyond. He transitioned from web and graphic design into full-time UI/UX work, notable for shaping brand identities and measurable product outcomes—like driving a 50% uplift in app downloads and boosting engagement and productivity in revenue-cycle SaaS. An early Figma Africa ambassador, he champions community-driven design through illustrations and tooling adoption, and maintains rigorous design documentation and prototyping practices that speed cross-functional delivery. Currently splitting time between a Product Lead role at a stealth startup and Product Designer at Andela, he combines strategic product thinking with hands-on craft and mentorship. He also brings an entrepreneurial streak from founding a campus classifieds site and a background in agricultural economics, which informs his practical, systems-aware approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Senior School Leaving Certificate, Senior School Leaving Certificate at Federal Government College OgbmosoNational Diploma Forestry Technology, National Diploma Forestry Technology at Federal College of Forestry, IbadanBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Agricultural Economics, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Agricultural Economics at Federal University of Technology Minna
English, Igbo
Github Skills (10)
favicon6
opentype-fonts4
octicons3
spritesheet3
heroicons3
ionicons2
svg2
icon-pack2
branding1
react1
Github contributions (5)
gbmillz/jolloficons
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
gbmillz/design-path
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
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