NEWTON IMONJIRIE
Senior Frontend Developer
Six (6) + Years of Experience
www.linkedin.com/in/imonjirie-newton/
github.com/dev-newton
Hull, England, UK-- / -
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Frontend Engineer, Pectus Finance - June/2022 - present - Berlin, Germany (Remote)
Pectus finance enables businesses to effectively control their costs and revenue, Increase their
planning accuracy and make their budgeting process more collaborative and efficient.
⇢ Built, designed, and implemented standard reports like controlling, profit & loss, balance
sheet, cash flow which allows users to gain deep insights into their financials. I Also
implemented a forecasting feature that gives users the ability to predict financials based on
certain values and parameters.
⇢ Built and setup integrations with several data sources such as datev, personio,and excel to
break up data silos and create a single source of truth which is available in real time on the web
application.
⇢ Redesigned the entire navigation of the web application to enable users to reach any part of
the application in a single click.
⇢ Used languages such as Javascript, React, TypeScript, Node, Express, and complex libraries
such as ag-grid for complex tables.
Lead Frontend Developer, Canary Point - April/2020 - June/2022 - Lagos, Nigeria
Canary Point is a holding company for various other financial companies that offer a range of
investment and financial services to the public with the aim of offering effective money management.
⇢ Developed & maintained a web application that enables individuals and businesses to buy
or sell forex, and receive it via pickup, delivery, or to the desired bank account using React
JS, Redux, Jest, Cypress, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and Serverless, delivering
an application that eliminates the rigorous processes involved in ordering forex.
⇢ Built, implemented, and maintained a back office application, to handle the forex orders
from the web application built in point one above, using the same technologies, driving
efficiency up by 40%.
⇢ Redesigned and maintained a loan website and web application using React JS, Redux,
Jest, Typescript, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and Serverless, increasing the number of loan
applications by 65%.
⇢ Led a small team of 2 frontend developers in building and maintaining high-quality working
applications.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES
⇢ Senior Frontend Developer, Crusteria - February/2017 - March/2020 - Lagos, Nigeria
⇢ Frontend Developer, nHub - July/2015 - December/2016 - Remote Freelance
SIDE PROJECTS
Giphy App (click to open link): This is a simple app that was mainly developed to demonstrate
expertise in React/TypeScript, and the implementation of best coding practices with advanced
JavaScript/React concepts such as Debounce/Throttling, Intersection Observer, Code Splitting
with Suspense and Lazy loading, etc. (Link to GitHub repo available upon request)
Loanly (click to open link): A loan app that enables businesses to accept loan payments from
customers via a 3rd party payment API.
Moniex (click to open link): A web app for ordering FX that uses a 3rd party API to generate
issuing wallets for customers, from which they fund and perform FX transactions.
EDUCATION AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2017 BSc. in Computer Science, Babcock University
2023 MSc. in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Hull (In Progress)
Prembly Hackathon - 1st position
SoloFunds Hackathon - 1st position
Stitch Hackathon - 1st position
Microsoft Hackathon - Top 10 Finalist
Apt Coding challenge - 1st runner up
CyberSecurity Hackathon - 1st runner up
Pngme hackathon - 2nd runner up
TECHNICAL SKILLS
(7+ years): Javascript
(5+ years): React, Redux, SASS, Microservices, ES6, Git.
(3+ years): TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Serverless, Jest, Cypress, Node,
SWR, React Native, MongoDB.
(Studying): NextJS, Blockchain, Data Science, Neural networks.
LANGUAGES
English - Level of Proficiency (Advanced)
Your native language - English
