Chidera Okonkwo

Frontend Product Developer | React Native · React · Next.js · TypeScript

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LagosMember since July 20, 2026

React NativeExpoExpo RouterReact NavigationNativeWindReanimatedMotiFirebase Cloud MessagingDeep-link routingOffline-first patternsBiometric securityEAS buildsiOS App Review prepPWA engineeringReact 19Next.js App RouterTypeScriptJavaScriptViteHTML5CSS3Responsive designFigma design-to-codeREST client architectureAxios interceptorsTyped contractsTanStack Query hooksStripe ConnectGoogle Maps & PlacesWhatsApp order-message flows

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React NativeExpoExpo RouterReact NavigationNativeWind

About

Frontend-focused product developer building web, mobile, and progressive web applications across education, ticketing, healthcare, hospitality, finance, marketplace, and service-booking domains. Specialised in React Native and Expo cross-platform delivery: native integrations, push notifications, deep links, offline-first behaviour, biometric security, and iOS App Review preparation. Strong at integrating REST APIs and business services — Stripe Connect, Google Maps & Places, WhatsApp ordering flows, and transactional email — and at translating real business operations into CMS and administrative products.

Currently providing volunteer technical leadership on a digital-health product, combining architecture direction with AI-assisted UI/UX design and hands-on frontend delivery.

Experience

Volunteer Technical Lead & Frontend/UI-UX Lead at MOI Doctar (2025 – Present)

Lead technical direction for a volunteer digital-health product: guiding frontend and backend workstreams, stack selection, architecture, and delivery priorities (CTO-equivalent scope at volunteer stage).

Designed the product interface through an AI-assisted UI/UX workflow, then implemented it directly: responsive React/TypeScript triage and authentication experiences, navigation, and branding.
Established the API layer with TanStack Query and Axios interceptors, reusable typed hooks, and improved backend auth verification; helped separate backend code from the client repository and coordinated main/staging merges.

React Native Developer at Gigxy (2025-11 – 2026-03)

Contributed across a production-oriented Expo marketplace: authentication, vendor onboarding drafts, curated discovery, and differentiated client/vendor views.

Implemented booking negotiation, offer retraction, cancellation, payment-intent, and status-timeline interfaces against evolving typed REST contracts.
Integrated Stripe Connect onboarding and payouts, wallets, disputes, Firebase Cloud Messaging notifications with deep-link routing, and Google Places location handling; prepared iOS builds for App Review submission and resubmission.

Frontend Developer at MerxAfrica (2026-02)

Delivered brand-led frontend work under strict client design constraints, implementing a restrained, professional visual system and responsive layouts.

Frontend & Mobile Developer at Liveizy Limited (2025 – 2026)

Worked on a property and billing platform in a collaborative team environment: task tracking, production-issue triage, onboarding flows, and responsive UI fixes.

Frontend & Mobile Developer at Self-Directed / Client Projects (2024 – Present)

Built and shipped the product portfolio below — spanning education, ticketing, finance, hospitality, service-booking, and content management — owning product structure, implementation, and delivery end to end.