Chukwudalu Ayika

Impact-driven Frontend Engineer with 5 years of experience specializing in robust software architecture, test-driven development, and scalable UI systems with a track record of translating complex design requirements into high performance and accessible digital products.

Senior Frontend Engineer - Rechaj

(2025-01)

• Spearheaded the build of the frontend architecture for the back office web application on Next.js, used for in-office management, user onboarding, vehicle retrofitting stage tracking, team management, vehicle management and payment tracking.
• Implemented TDD early-on using Playwright while building as part of the continuous integration and deployment pipelines in order to reduce regression during deployments and to also catch errors before they reach production.
• Introduced and built a comprehensive map view of all retrofitted vehicles within selected areas while simultaneously adding heat maps for hotspots of areas with the most retrofitted vehicles to the areas with the least using smart data aggregation of all retrofitted vehicles from the database.
• Conducted team code reviews to ensure that only quality code makes it to production.

Frontend Engineer - Kinfolk Venture Capital

(2022-08 - 2025-03)

• As a Fullstack Frontend Engineer, I championed the redesign and rebuild of the client dashboard as a Vue.js and Nuxt.js single-page application, translating complex investment workflows into intuitive, responsive user interfaces built on Shadcn and Radix UI component libraries.
• Optimized single-page application performance, Search Engine Optimization, and load times through code-splitting, lazy loading, and asset optimization, resulting in an 18% increase in user engagement over time.
• Applied SOLID principles and clean code practices across component architecture, and integrated frontend applications with REST APIs and backend services to deliver scalable, maintainable customer-facing features.
• Implemented backend microservices to handle portfolio data caching, aggregation and retrieval, optimizing API response times by 12% through efficient database indexing and caching strategies.
• Partnered closely with product, design, and backend teams to estimate tasks, provide progress updates, and troubleshoot technical issues, keeping feature delivery on schedule in an agile environment.
• Implemented frontend automated units and integration test cases using Playwright as part of CI/CD pipelines, reducing regressions and accelerating release cycles.
• Architected and deployed a dynamic content generation engine using advanced AI prompt engineering between Make, Midjourney, event triggers, a Node.js powered backend API and PostgreSQL to automate and store end-to-end media and content creation from raw titles.
• Developed and maintained the Collective Chronicles blog pipeline using Nuxt.js, implementing automated testing and deployment processes to reduce release times and ensure rapid, reliable content delivery.
• Conducted code reviews and mentored junior engineers, contributing to improved code reliability and skill development across the team.

Bachelor's Degree - ESEP (2012-07 - 2016-09)

Frontend Development - Stutern (2019-08 - 2020-06)

Fullstack E-Commerce Development - Udemy (2025-03 - 2025-04)

Software Engineering - AlgoMonster (2025-02)