Olaleye Blessing
Senior Frontend Developer
Specializing in building modern, scalable web applications with over 5+ years of experience
Experience
Nov 2025 - Present
Remote
Frontend Developer at Bread Cooperative
Open Source
- Promoted from open-source contributor to maintainer of all frontend repositories.
- Maintaining and improving React-based codebases
- TypeScript
- React.js
- Next.js
- TailwindCSS
- Web 3
May 2025 - Present
Remote, Nigeria
Senior Frontend Developer at Omniretail
Contract
- Led development of the core onboarding and company registration flow that powers 140K+ retailers and 65+ major FMCG brands across Africa.
- Provided secure authentication & authorization that handles business logic.
- Delivered a dashboard that provides metrics on sales and employees.
- Serve as a primary code reviewer (for some months), enforcing consistent code style and clean architecture, especially for newly onboarded developers.
- Collaborate with designers, backend teams, and cross-team frontend developers to work on different features.
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Redux
- RTQ Query
Feb 2025 - Oct 2025
Remote, Nigeria
Senior Frontend Developer at Tasa Africa
- Guided the team to better use of TypeScript.
- Built a GitHub Actions pipeline for previews on all project pull requests.
- Built a React component library for all projects.
- Improved main app performance
- Set up E2E tests during rebranding to v2
- TypeScript
- TailwindCSS
- React.js
- Vite
- Cypress
April 2023 - Nov 2024
Remote, Belgium
Lead Frontend Developer at HireforceOne
- I joined a team of 3 frontend developers to migrate a legacy React codebase to a modern Next.js architecture.
- 4 months later, I was promoted to the team lead in which I started to lead the migration of the codebase. I also made sure best practices are put in place in terms of accessibility, testing and documentation.
- As it is a multilingual website, I made sure translations to other languages are seemless.
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- TailwindCSS
- React.js
- Next.js
- Cypress
May 2022 - May 2023
Remote, California
Software Developer at Projecttent
- I began as an intern, quickly demonstrating my abilities and earning a promotion to Software Developer within 3 months. I then built, maintained, and tested web3 applications using the Elixir stack (Elixir, Phoenix Liveview, and PostgresSQL) with Alpine.js and ClojureScript.
- Also, I learned the importance of effective communication within a team.
- JavaScript
- React.js
- Elixir
- Phoenix Liveview
- Alphine.js
- Clojure
- ClojureScript
- Ecto
- PostgresSQL
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Remote, Canada
Frontend Developer at Solace Imaging
- I prioritized accessibility upon joining the team, ensuring all pages were usable for medical staff and patients (with disabilities). By leveraging React's capabilities, I also optimized page load times for a smooth user experience.
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React.js
Projects
These are some of the projects I have worked on over the years.
Lottery
A decentralized full-stack lottery platform built on the Base (Sepolia) blockchain. Winners are announced after 7 days.
- Express.js
- Next.js
- Redis
- TailwindCSS
- TypeScript
- Viem
- Solidity
- Foundry
- Wagmi
Crowdchain
A decentralized crowdfunding platform built on the Sepolia blockchain. Users can create and donates to various campaigns using any supported ERC20 tokens.
- Express.js
- Next.js
- Redis
- TailwindCSS
- TypeScript
- Viem
- Solidity
- Foundry
- Wagmi
Igbayesile
A hotel reservation platform that simplifies booking for guests, managers, and staff. Managers and staff have an analytics dashboard (on a subdomain).
- TypeScript
- TailwindCSS
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Express.js
- Redis
- Mongodb
- Docker
Technologies
Languages/Frameworks/Tools I have worked with.
- CSS
- TailwindCSS
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React.js
- Next.js
- Firebase
- Cypress
- Jest
- React-Testing-Library
- Elixir
- Phoenix LiveView
- Express.js
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Docker