Hi there, meet

Brian Njogu

Developer • Techie • Consultant

I build solid and scalable software with great user experiences. About 4 years of commercial experience helping entities across the world build outstanding products.

Here's what i do

Design

From creating wireframes to high quality mockups, I adore taking part in the conception phase of any product.

Develop

With a text editor and a vision, I'm a sucker for writing code. Breathing life into designs excites me.

Deploy

Provisioning resources and the entire complete architecture to the cloud is the awesomeness that I thrive in.

Where I've worked

From spearheading projects to collaborating with talented colleagues, most of my experience is largely attributed to these awesome places I've been a part of.

Frontend Engineer
  • • Documented a client’s complex excel-based cost calculators, built custom web-apps integrated with an enterprise sales solution, and deployed release pipelines, enhancing overall salesperson experience.
  • • Spearheaded the frontend development for an active intelligence geomapping utility service for BT, taking demographic analysis speed from an hour to a couple of minutes.
  • • Delivered a working insurance aggregation prototype for an undisclosed funding round.
  • • Built real-time, data-driven analytics software for Lytt, to visualize fiber data in the oil and gas sector, reducing driller collisions by nearly 50%.

Tooling: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Material UI, Tailwind, Apollo, GraphQL, REST APIs, Sockets, WebGL, SciChart.js, Recharts, Showpad, Web Assembly, Jest, Storybook, Strapi, Gitlab, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Jira.

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Frontend Developer
  • • Extended an existing functionality from their all-in-one discounts app to their all-in-one volume discounts app, that allows customers to manually add multiple discount codes during checkout, reducing cart abandonment and boosting sales.

Tooling: JavaScript, Shopify, PHP, Laravel.

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Full Stack Engineer
  • • Steered the team that built an AWS-based event booking platform that served at least 1000+ medical professionals, positively spiking the booking rate by 12%.
  • • Lead the rebuild of a legacy online meetings medical web app whose new features, that had previously been shelved due to integration issues with the existing architecture, drove attendance and engagement rates by as much as 30%.
  • • Pioneered the development of a cancer-support PWA that helped fundraise about $50k by the end of 2021.
  • • Provided extensive support for a user-heavy Shopify site, with my best highlight being the rewrite of a product search feature drastically reducing customer churn rate by 25%.
  • • Migrated, redesigned and rebuilt a legacy project to a more modern and cloud-based stack, saving the client thousands of pounds in recurring expenses.

Tooling: JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, React, React Native, GraphQL, Node.js, Gatsby.js, Netlify, Contentful, Shopify, Liquid, AWS Amplify, DynamoDB, Cognito, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, IAM, CodeCommit, Git, Azure, Umbraco, C#.

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React Native Intern
  • • Participated in the early prototype and build of HISA, an app that champions for borderless investments by allowing people within Africa to buy and sell international stocks.

Tooling: Figma, React Native.

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Let's work together

Whether it's an interesting idea for a project that you have, some consultancy work you may need, or just a quick hello, I'd love to chat! I typically respond within a few hours.

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