Samuel Imolorhe
Software Engineer at Stripe
Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSamuel Imolorhe is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-facing tools and production web applications, currently working at Stripe while freelancing through Toptal and serving as CTO of XKojiMedia. He specializes in frontend engineering and GraphQL ecosystems—authoring the Altair GraphQL Client and contributing key fixes and TypeScript/Jest migrations to the widely used GraphiQL project. Samuel blends full‑stack fluency with attention to developer experience, shipping editor UX features like query play buttons and legacy CodeMirror 6 support. Comfortable across service and client layers, he prioritizes code quality and reusability, evidenced by consistent linting and refactor work. Based in Almere, Netherlands, he pairs a strong computer science foundation from Covenant University with a pragmatic open-source mindset that improves tooling used by other engineers.
11 years of coding experience
Niger Delta Science SchoolBSc, Computer Science, 4.5, BSc, Computer Science, 4.5 at Covenant University
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
typescript10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
typescripts10
codemirror10
react10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
jestjs9
refactoring8
refactor8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
altair-graphql/altair
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
✨⚡️ A feature-rich GraphQL Client for all platforms.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:166 releases, 111 reviews, 4432 commits in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the Altair GraphQL client by implementing play buttons for query operations, which involved modifying the query editor component to add widgets. They also made changes to the service layer to enhance code reusability by refactoring code and implemented improvements such as showing widgets for anonymous single operations. Furthermore, the user was involved in fixing linting issues, indicating an attention to code quality.
datafeature-richgraphql-editorngrxgraphql-server
graphql/graphiql
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
GraphiQL & the GraphQL LSP Reference Ecosystem for building browser & IDE tools.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 18 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Samuel contributed to the `graphiql/graphiql` repository by updating and migrating code related to tests within the `codemirror-graphql` package to use Jest and Typescript. They also updated the build process and added support for codemirror 6 legacy mode, including syntax highlighting. Additionally, they fixed bugs and improved the linting functionality within the project.
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