Summary
Matthew Nwokolo is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 7+ years of experience building high-impact SaaS, fintech, and identity verification products using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Django. He has repeatedly translated complex product requirements into reliable, accessible interfaces that drove measurable business outcomes—generating ₦180M+ in annual booking revenue, cutting onboarding time by up to 45%, and reducing production bugs by 60%. Matthew has scaled multi-tenant platforms and payment workflows processing ₦80M+ with 99.9% reliability and supported identity systems handling 10,000+ daily verifications. He pairs frontend performance and accessible UI systems with pragmatic backend integrations, often owning end-to-end delivery from specs to observability and incident response. Comfortable working closely with non-technical operations and product teams, he turns day-to-day workflow pain points into shipped features that increase adoption and reduce operational costs. Based in Lagos, he emphasizes clean architecture, testing, and long-term maintainability as core drivers of product and business value.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at National Institute of Information Technology, Lagos
Bachelor of Arts Mass Communication (Media), Bachelor of Arts Mass Communication (Media) at Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos