Samuel Olaegbe
Software Developer at Nithub
Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Olaegbe is a software developer based in Lagos with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and four years focused on high-performance React frontends. He has driven measurable product improvements—cutting page load times by 10% through build optimizations and reducing support tickets by 10% via UX enhancements—while also building backend services in PHP and Python. Samuel has led teams and shipping cycles as a development lead and CTO, architecting features like a smart checkout system and a barcode-enabled warehouse app that improved shipment accuracy by 70%. He mentors early-career engineers at Nithub and has a track record of coaching developers during intensive sprints such as HNG and internal projects. Comfortable across Laravel, Vue, Docker and modern JavaScript tooling, he blends design sensibility with pragmatic engineering to deliver polished, user-centric products. An entrepreneurial builder who also contributed search and JSON-display improvements to team open-source repos, he pairs product intuition with hands-on implementation.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY at University of LagosScience, Science at Adegoke High School
English, Yoruba
Stackoverflow
189reputation
30kreached
1answer
9questions
Github Skills (15)
javascript10
python9
php9
json9
back-end-development8
front-end-development8
backend8
e-mail6
html6
ajax6
css6
collections6
cropper6
cpanel6
cropperjs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
team-granite/HNGi7-First-Task
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Team Granite First Task
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 37 PRs, 34 pushes in 3 days
Contributions summary:Samuel contributed to the development of a web application, primarily focused on the frontend and backend aspects. They implemented a search bar feature and improved the display of JSON responses. The user also corrected an HNG ID and modified the `goodhands.php` script. Additionally, the user worked on the codebase in Javascript, Python, and PHP.
granite
goodhands/vue-spa
Jun 2019 - May 2021
A simple quotes stream with laravel and vuejs. Built with vue-router, laravel-mix, vue-components. Inspired by Jeffery Way of Laracasts.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
laravellaravel-mixvuevue-componentvue-router
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