Richard Itimi is a senior full-stack engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable web applications, computer vision services, and ML infrastructure, currently contributing to collaboration and calling features used by hundreds of millions at Microsoft Teams and now at Lyft. He combines strong frontend chops (React, accessibility, server-side rendering) with backend C#/.NET and JavaScript expertise, and has led migrations and decoupling efforts for high-traffic products. Richard has driven engineering standards and mentoring across distributed teams at Andela and Venture Garden Group, and contributed to high-profile open-source projects like the BBC’s Simorgh, adding radio schedule components and UI improvements. Comfortable shipping production systems at scale—from Quickteller’s payments platform to Azure Mixed Reality—he pairs pragmatic architecture with attention to accessibility and performance.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University
The BBC's Open Source Web Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 364 commits, 59 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Richard's primary contribution was the addition and modification of code related to displaying radio schedule components. They implemented the presentation of a radio schedule, likely for a front-end application, including details like program times, titles, and descriptions. Their work also involved adding styles and making adjustments to the user interface to display data for different services in a correct format.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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