Olaolu Olawuyi
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Canada
Summary
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RockstarOlaolu Olawuyi is a Staff Engineer with over a decade of web engineering experience, currently shaping web foundations at Shopify with a focus on performance, infrastructure, and developer tooling. He blends design-systems and accessibility expertise with large-scale architecture and observability to build fast, resilient, and maintainable platforms that drive measurable business impact. At Shopify he’s led initiatives that improve conversion and gross profit, influenced cross-org technical investments, and mentored engineers on advanced frontend patterns. His background spans building component libraries, multilingual routing, and dramatic bundle-size and compile-speed wins for past employers, showing a pragmatic bias for measurable engineering outcomes. Outside work he contributes frontend improvements to community projects like a curated "made-in-nigeria" showcase, reflecting a continued interest in polish and inclusive experiences.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
html10
css10
scs10
sc10
angular9
javascript9
wordpress6
php6
sql6
mysql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
acekyd/made-in-nigeria
Apr 2017 - Mar 2020
Here is a curation of awesome tools built by Nigerians that can be used by anybody and from anywhere in the world.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 27 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Olaolu primarily focused on front-end development, as evidenced by changes in `index.html`, `app.component.html`, and `.scss` and `.css` files. Their contributions included updating the markup, fixing paths to assets, and making the application more visually appealing through Sassy styling. The user also made minor adjustments and cleanup to the overall structure and presentation of the user interface.
anywherecurationmade-in-naijamade-in-nigeria
whizkydee/dotfiles
Dec 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:61 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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