Afolakemi Bello

A Full Stack Software Engineer with over five years of commercial experience, owning features across the stack from planning through deployment and support. Strong in PHP and Laravel with RESTful APIs and third-party integrations, and in building responsive, accessible interfaces with Vue.js. Hands-on with Google Cloud and Firebase, having built a Firebase-backed application for reliable real-time data access.

Mentors junior and mid-level developers, contributes to architecture and code-quality decisions, and communicates clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Comfortable working independently, juggling several projects, and delivering clean, maintainable, scalable code.

Software Engineer at Amiqus (2023-11 – 2026-02)

• Contributed to migrating the production frontend from Vue 2 to Vue 3: mapped the components and areas of the codebase that needed changing, implemented updates, and ran thorough QA testing to confirm existing functionality was unaffected.
• Built and maintained reusable Vue.js frontend components integrated with backend APIs, delivering responsive, data-driven user interfaces using HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, and JavaScript (ES6+).
• Led remediation of a WCAG accessibility audit, resolving failures across heading structure, ARIA usage and semantic markup to bring the interface into line with accessibility standards.
• Wrote automated frontend and backend test suites using Jest, Vue Test Utils, and PHPUnit following TDD practices; shipped through CI/CD pipelines with Docker and GitHub workflows.
• Led end-to-end delivery of features from discovery through to production: assessing codebase impact, making component and migration architecture decisions, creating POC branches, writing technical documents, breaking work into user stories, implementing collaboratively, and deploying through staging to production.
• Developed and maintained scalable PHP and Laravel backend services and RESTful APIs that the frontend consumed, implementing complex business logic and validation workflows.
• Maintained OpenAPI documentation as a standard part of API delivery, and applied OWASP Top 10 security principles including injection prevention via Eloquent ORM, role-based access control, and API authentication.
• Participated in a rotating technical support function to maintain platform stability: triaged issues using Sentry, resolved and tested fixes in staging before production deployment, and raised structured bug tickets.
• Worked in cross-functional Agile sprints with product, QA, and design; wrote user stories, contributed to prioritisation, conducted UAT on staging, and communicated primarily in writing across the team.
• Acted as buddy to a newly hired senior engineer, took turns as Scrum Master on a rotating basis, and contributed to code reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering standards.

Full-Stack Developer at Blue Nile Gaming Limited (2020-11 – 2022-06)

• Contributed to frontend development using JavaScript, semantic HTML, and CSS, building and integrating UI components with backend APIs.
• Built and maintained Python backend services and RESTful APIs processing high-volume, real-time data streams critical to platform operations.
• Built a standalone Python application backed by Firebase Realtime Database, enabling customer care staff to read, update and manage player records with reliable real-time data access.
• Engaged directly with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical delivery plans.
• Collaborated across cross-functional Agile teams using Git and structured SDLC practices.

Technical Mentor (Volunteer) at TechNest Community (2025-04 – Present)

• Mentor students in frontend and backend development across JavaScript, Vue.js, PHP, Laravel and Python in a fully remote setting across timezones, designing structured learning sessions and delivering written, asynchronous code reviews and feedback.
• Support students in building production-quality codebases through iterative feedback and technical coaching.

MSc in International Business Management – Glasgow Caledonian University (2023)

BTech in Chemical Engineering – Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (2018)