> Software Engineer · Lagos, Nigeria
Full-Stack Engineer, Mobile Developer, Backend & API Engineer, Fintech / Core Banking, Product-Minded Builder
Full-stack web and mobile engineer with 5 years shipping end-to-end products across fintech, health tech, HR, e-commerce, and civic tech. I take things from empty repo to production and keep them running.
// about
I'm Daniel Komolafe, a software engineer who ships. I've spent five years building full-stack web and mobile products that hold up under real load, in domains where correctness actually matters.
My work spans fintech and core banking, health tech, HR systems, e-commerce, civic tech, and social platforms. I've led a custom core-banking platform on Apache Fineract, built an election-integrity app that extracts and reconciles handwritten results from polling unit to national level, and delivered an offline-first desktop app that went live in competition the same day it shipped.
I like owning the whole problem: data model, backend, API, and the interface people actually touch. Reliability is the throughline. Secure publishing, rollback safeguards, defensive error handling, documented environments. The systems I build are meant to run when it counts, not just demo well.
I hold a First Class B.Sc in Software Engineering from Babcock University, placed 3rd at the 2016 International Olympiad in Informatics, and was 1st runner-up at the 2023 Cavista Hackathon. Lately I'm learning game development in Unreal Engine 5 with C++.
// selected work
A selection of products I've shipped end-to-end across fintech, civic tech, health, sports, and education, from AI-driven election collation to offline-first desktop software used live in competition. I build systems that don't fail.
6 projects shown
A mobile-first social networking platform built exclusively for university students, enabling them to discover people, make friends, join campus communities, and build meaningful relationships through social networking and dating features.
An Electron desktop app for athletics officials with tablet-friendly workflows for the call room, starters, track judges, and photo-finish. A real-time pipeline monitors local timing and photo-finish systems and auto-publishes live results to the public website.
Led a full election-integrity system covering voter and party-agent accreditation, result collation, and real-time reporting. Applied handwritten character recognition to extract results directly from polling-unit sheets and reconcile them across polling-unit, ward, state, and national levels.
A personal and professional website for Professor Akinwumi Oluwole Komolafe, presenting his biography, CV and career, research publications, papers, videos, awards and quotes. Content is managed through an admin dashboard backed by a custom Express + MongoDB API. Built as a React + TypeScript single-page app with a companion API service.
Led design and development of SHELTER, a Flutter app delivering sexual and reproductive health knowledge with personalized, data-driven insights. Built the Express + TypeScript backend integrating Python AI models, deployed to production on Linux/Nginx.
// experience
Five years of shipping production systems end-to-end across fintech, health tech, civic tech, and more, with a simple rule: I build systems that don't fail.
Led the engineering behind an election-integrity platform and a custom core-banking product while modernizing the company's internal and public-facing systems.
Delivered an offline-first Electron app for track officials that went live in competition the same day it shipped.
Built and maintained an EdTech platform, driving quality and performance improvements alongside product and payments decisions.
Led design and development of SHELTER, an AI-powered Flutter app for sexual and reproductive health knowledge.
Led mobile and backend teams delivering Flutter applications in an Agile Scrum environment.
Led a React-to-Next.js migration and shipped an MVP that attracted investors.
// toolkit
A working toolkit built over five years of shipping real products. I reach for what fits the problem, and I'm comfortable owning the stack from database to interface.
// references
Needless to say, they were very impressed with the system. They took some time praising your work to me, and I was glad I came to your dm. If you ever need that referral, please let me know, and I'll provide it. We shipped the officials app on a Friday and it was running live at competition that same afternoon. Your offline-first architecture and the FTPS results pipeline just worked under real pressure.
Daniel's redesign and rebuild of Algorism's website ensured a modern looking website and 24/7 availability. Since the rebuild, the website has been functional and converting. Visitors now have a better understanding of what we do through our website.
He led our React to Next.js migration and the SEO gains were immediate. More importantly, the MVP he shipped is what got us in front of investors. Daniel thinks like a founder, not just a contractor.
// off the clock
Alongside client work, I'm learning game development in Unreal Engine 5 with C++. Slash is my hands-on project for that journey: an action game I'm building while working through Stephen Ulibarri's Ultimate Game Developer course. It's where I get to apply engineering fundamentals to a completely different problem space, from gameplay systems and combat to animation and world building. I'm treating it the way I treat everything else: build it properly, understand what's under the hood, and ship something real.
// playground
A Minesweeper game I built in React — flags, a mine counter, and a timer. Left-click to reveal, right-click to flag. Have a go.
Built with React — a full board generator, flood-fill reveal, flagging, mine counter and timer.
Open in CodeSandbox Source on GitHub// contact
I'm open to freelance projects and full-time roles. If you need an engineer who can own a product end-to-end and ship something that holds up in production, I'd like to hear about it. The fastest way to reach me is email.