Samora Dake
Product Architect at Nuanom
Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
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RockstarSamora Dake is a Product Architect with 12 years of experience designing and delivering user-focused web products from startups to global media. Based in Accra, he has held senior engineering and architecture roles at Nuanom, BBC, Andela, Headspace and Ukuul, bringing cross‑functional leadership to news, elections, customer service, and consumer apps. He combines front-end craftsmanship—evidenced by contributions to the BBC’s high-profile Simorgh project around testing and media-player analytics—with product-level thinking to translate user needs into robust, testable features. Comfortable operating at the intersection of product and engineering, he rebuilds internal tools and shapes architecture while maintaining hands-on coding discipline. Known for shipping reliable web experiences at scale, he also brings the perspective of working in both African and international engineering ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (16)
cypress10
analytics10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
cdn6
ajax6
nodejs6
favicon6
hosting6
django6
mysql6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/simorgh
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
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
Front-end DeveloperContributions:242 commits, 52 PRs, 208 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Samora's commits primarily involve modifying the `cypress/support/config/services.js` file and the `src/app/lib/analyticsUtils/index.test.js` and `src/app/lib/analyticsUtils/index.js` files, indicating work related to testing and analytics configuration. The code changes reflect the addition of functionality for media player, including code to set the status of the embed source URL. These contributions suggest a focus on enhancing the application's features and testing capabilities within the context of a web application.
isomorphic-javascriptreactbiggestsingle-page-applicationjavascript
samora/parse-geocoder
Aug 2013 - Jul 2015
Parse geocoder data into easily usable form
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 11 months
parsegeocoderusable
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