About

Ogooluwa Akinola is a highly skilled software engineer with over 6 years of experience in the field. Currently, he works at Omaze as a Software Engineer, where he is responsible for maintaining an internal Shopify data-management tool that manages over 1000 products on Shopify. He works with Product, Design, QA, and other Software Engineers to ensure that the tool is up to date and functioning optimally. He has expertise in ReactJs, Apollo-GraphQL, SASS, and Typescript/ES6. Ogooluwa has also designed and upgraded Omaze's promo code system that ensures more transparency and a positive impact on customer donations to support charities. He implements user interface designs on Shopify using Shopify Liquid and contributes to maintaining an embedded admin system on the Shopify customize-editor utilizing ReactJs, Typescript, and Apollo. He has a strong understanding of test-driven tools like jest and react-testing-library, which he leverages to ensure high confidence in the systems he builds. Additionally, he designs and develops event-driven microservices written in Golang while leveraging Amazon Web Services SNS and SQS. He collaborates with Design teams and technical team leads to provide architectural designs and solutions to problems. Prior to working at Omaze, Ogooluwa worked as a Software Engineer at Andela, where he delivered applications that solved internal problems. He designed a travel management tool that helped ease the process of managing travels for more than 1000 employees. He also designed an event-driven and reactive e-commerce platform and independently designed a food-booking application to help manage food delivering service. Ogooluwa has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Lagos, where he studied from 2011 to 2015. He has experience in various technologies, including ReactJS, Typescript, test, qa, Microservices, Web, Javascript, Redux, MongoDB, and Golang. His relevant experience in the field is 6.61 years.