Jerry Okafor
Software Engineer at Bethink Labs
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolJerry Okafor is a seasoned mobile software engineer with 11 years of experience who has led Android teams at fintech and startup environments, most recently as Lead Software Engineer - Android at Carbon and now at Bethink Labs. He blends hands-on Kotlin/Java and Swift development with technical leadership—owning architecture, code quality, and cross-functional collaboration—and drove the Hydrogen Design System that removed platform-specific UI silos and boosted team productivity by 40%. Comfortable across Android, iOS, Flutter and Kotlin Multiplatform, he pairs modern patterns (MVVM, RxJava) and CI/CD tooling with pragmatic UX-awareness to deliver reliable mobile products at scale. A lifelong learner, he holds nanodegrees in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing and certifications in iOS and Azure fundamentals, signaling an appetite for applying AI to mobile experiences. Based in Edmonton, he also contributes time to IT initiatives for a Canadian nonprofit, reflecting a developer who balances product impact with community-minded engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
WDR1901x: The Future of Work: Preparing for Disruption, WDR1901x: The Future of Work: Preparing for Disruption at edXNatural Language Processing Nanodegree Computer Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing Nanodegree Computer Software Engineering at UdacitySSCE (WASCE) Sciences, SSCE (WASCE) Sciences at St Theresas Secondary SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Nigeria, NsukkaJava Programming and Software Engineering Fundamentals Computer Software Engineering, Java Programming and Software Engineering Fundamentals Computer Software Engineering at Duke University
English, Igbo
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Github Skills (162)
constraint-layout10
android-studio-plugin10
kotlin-multiplatform10
kotlin-android10
dependency-injection10
android10
jetpack-compose10
kotlin10
country-codes10
flutter-plugin9
kotlin-library9
intellij9
tic-tac-toe9
uitest9
android-app9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jerryOkafor/Todo
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
jerryOkafor/GenerateFaces
Jul 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years
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