Michael Essiet
Support Engineer at SendAI
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolMichael Essiet is a pragmatic frontend-focused software engineer with about six years of experience building responsive web and mobile apps using React and React Native, currently working as a Support Engineer at Privy while leading open-source work for SendAI. He maintains production mobile pipelines at nycrypto, migrated a PWA to React Native for better native security and UX, and helped streamline CI/CD and Expo-based deployments. An active OSS contributor, Michael has improved SolidJS documentation and enhanced the Supabase Auth UI with UI fixes, i18n, and Solid.js integrations—demonstrating an eye for developer experience as well as product UX. He pairs hands-on engineering with technical writing and practical project-management experience, often triaging large volumes of issues and PRs across Web3 projects. Based in Lagos, he brings a blend of frontend craftsmanship, mobile operations know-how, and community-driven open-source contributions to teams building consumer-facing and blockchain-integrated products.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Abuja
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Github Skills (25)
ui-components10
solidjs10
typescript10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
supabase10
react10
auth10
javascript9
documentation9
css-modules8
localization8
css7
vite7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
solidjs/solid-docs
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Official documentation for the Solid ecosystem
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 119 commits, 132 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the documentation of the SolidJS ecosystem by creating and expanding various guide sections. They added content related to comparison with Vue, styling in Solid, deployment guides, and TypeScript integration. Furthermore, they worked on improvements in the user interface by fixing table parsing and implementing responsive tables.
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supabase-community/auth-ui
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Pre-built Auth UI for React
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Supabase Auth UI package. Their work involved creating and modifying UI components, including social login icons and input fields. They also addressed compilation issues and improved the user experience by adding auto-focus functionality and fixing password reset flows within the Solid.js implementation. Furthermore, they added German localization.
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