Samira
Okonkwo
Frontend
Engineer
&
UI
Systems
Architect
Brooklyn
,
NY
·
samira
@
okonkwo
.
dev
·
github
.
com
/
sokonkwo
·
linkedin
.
com
/
in
/
samira
-
okonkwo
C OR E
S KIL L S
Frontend
React
,
TypeScript
,
Next
.
js
,
Remix
,
Vue
,
GraphQL
Systems
&
Tooling
Storybook
,
Design
Tokens
,
Monorepos
,
Turborepo
,
tRPC
Performance
Core
Web
Vitals
,
Edge
Caching
,
Bundle
Analysis
,
Dynamic
Imports
Accessibility
WCAG
2.1
AA
/
AAA
,
ARIA
,
Semantic
HTML
,
Screen
-
Reader
Testing
EDUC AT ION
University
of
Washington
B
.
S
.
Computer
Science
·
Seattle
,
WA
C ER T IF IC AT ION S
CPACC
Certified
Professional
in
Accessibility
Core
Competencies
AWS
Certified
Developer
Associate
Level
L AN G UAG ES
English
,
Igbo
,
French
(
B
2)
AB OUT
M E
I
’
m
a
frontend
engineer
with
seven
years
of
experience
building
design
systems
and
performance
-
critical
web
applications
.
My
focus
sits
at
the
intersection
of
engineering
craft
and
product
thinking
:
I
translate
design
intent
into
resilient
component
architectures
that
scale
across
teams
.
Recently
,
I
led
the
migration
of
a
monolithic
frontend
to
a
modular
Next
.
js
architecture
serving
over
two
million
weekly
users
.
I
care
deeply
about
accessibility
,
shipping
fast
without
sacrificing
inclusivity
,
and
mentoring
engineers
to
raise
the
quality
bar
of
the
entire
organization
.
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P R OF ES S ION AL
EX P ER IEN C E
Senior
Frontend
Engineer
2021 —
Present
Tidal
Commerce
·
Remote
Frontend
Developer
,
Product
2018 — 2021
Northbridge
Labs
·
San
Francisco
,
CA
Web
Developer
2016 — 2018
Civicware
·
Remote
S EL EC T ED
P R OJ EC T S
Polymath
UI
Open
-
source
accessible
component
primitives
built
on
top
of
Radix
. 2.3
k
GitHub
stars
,
adopted
by
60+
production
teams
.
Cartographer
A
WebGL
-
based
data
visualization
toolkit
for
financial
dashboards
.
Handles
100
k
+
data
points
at
60
fps
on
consumer
hardware
.
Architected
the
internal
component
library
used
by
12
product
squads
,
reducing
design
-
to
-
development
handoff
time
by
40%.
—
Drove
a
35%
improvement
in
Largest
Contentful
Paint
through
edge
-
caching
strategies
and
dynamic
module
imports
.
—
Mentored
three
junior
engineers
and
established
code
-
review
guidelines
that
enforced
accessibility
patterns
by
default
.
—
Built
marketing
sites
and
dashboard
UIs
using
React
and
internal
design
systems
used
by
enterprise
clients
across
fintech
and
healthcare
.
—
Implemented
real
-
time
analytics
features
adopted
by
50,000+
end
users
within
the
first
quarter
of
release
.
—
Collaborated
with
UX
researchers
to
refactor
onboarding
flows
,
improving
trial
-
to
-
paid
conversion
rates
by
18%.
—
Developed
accessible
,
Section
508-
compliant
web
applications
for
municipal
agencies
serving
millions
of
residents
.
—
Automated
end
-
to
-
end
testing
pipelines
using
Cypress
and
Jest
,
reducing
manual
QA
cycles
by
30%.
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