Victor Aremu

Software Engineer
Ikeja, Lagos
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linkedin.com/in/victor-aremu-o
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victorare.mu
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me@victorare.mu
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+2349033799117
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Education

Lagos State University

Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Computer Science
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2016 - 2021

Work Experience

Toptal

Software Engineer
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Aug 2021 - Current
  • A member of an exclusive network of the top 3% freelance software developers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers in the world.
  • Technologies used include React, GraphQL, AWS, and Web3.

Simplifyd

Front-end Engineer
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2020 - 2021
  • Improved UI/UX, performance, and accessibility of core Simplifyd products.
  • Introduced and maintained an internal UI library used for developing product user interfaces.
  • Oversaw the completion and launch of a customer portal built with React.js, Tailwind. It saw a massive adoption from the company's product user base.
  • Collaborated with UI designers, providing direction on the viability of the proposed designs.
  • Established the coding practices and formatting and linting rules (Prettier, TSLint setup, TypeScript definition examples, and some definitions for third-party packages).

Softcom

Software Engineer
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2019 - 2021
  • Worked on a number of front-end projects as well as the UI/UX engineering for these products.
  • Refactored the existing codebase to reduce technical debts, code smells, and increase overall code quality.
  • Maintained UI components & design systems with Storybook, developed several internal tools used across multiple front-end projects.
  • Implemented analytics tools for tracking production activities. This helped optimize response time in reproducing and fixing production bugs.
  • Developed projects of all sizes, from small static pages, single-page applications, to server-side-rendered web applications with React.js and Next.js.

Projects

Switch App

Typescript, Rust, Objective C, C++
  • A cross-platform spotlight app with a focus on quick navigation.
  • The project won the second (Windows 10 app) and fourth (macOS app) product of the day on Product Hunt awards!
  • Over 2,000 monthly active users and over 172,000 downloads.

tauri-nspanel

Rust, Objective C

Tauri plugin to convert a window to panel.

Figma plugins

Typescript, React, WebGL
  • Dither - A plugin that allows you to add dithering effects to your Figma images.
  • Third - A plugin for importing 3D assets into Figma.
  • Used by more than 32,000 users.

Thumbo

Typescript, Rust, WebAssembly

Skills

  • React & React Native
  • NodeJS & Typescript
  • Rust & Systems Programming
  • Frontend Development
  • Web Application Development
  • Mobile Application Development
  • Deskop Application Development
  • Web3 Development

Volunteering

Open source

Contributor
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2019 - Current

I'm an active open-source contributor and a working group member of the Tauri open-source project.